Last year, Alejandro Jodorowsky had mentioned on social media about a potential new project that he was working on.
Today on Instagram he confirmed that he’s prepping a new movie called "Viaje Esencial" or “Essential Voyage”, in English.
Jodorowzky published a book of poems with the same title. Maybe it’ll be an anthological film? Let’s hope it starts production sometime this year, he just turned 94.
Fact of the matter is that Jodorowsky’s last few films haven’t necessarily diminished in quality. His last one was 2016’s “Endless Poetry”, and he managed to even release an ultra low budget documentary before the pandemic.
We’re not entirely sure what “Essential Voyage” will be about, it could be the third part of a trilogy that started with “The Dance of Reality” and “Endless Poetry.” What we do know is that Jodorowsky seems to be in great health and ready to make this new film.
Jodorowsky is the surrealist Chilean auteur behind, at least, two 1970s masterpieces: “El Topo” and “The Holy Mountain.”
He also, unsuccessfully, tried to adapt Herbert’s “Dune” in the mid-‘70s, a scrapped project that has not only become the stuff of legend, but resulted in an incredible 2013 doc titled “Jodorowsky’s Dune.”
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