h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

The artist whose work inspired Alien as well as E.T. worked extensively on production drawings for several of the sets in Dune. Sadly, only a few were used, as they were seen as too "alienating" (sorry, no pun intended)and/or expensive to create.

...and it would probably help if I spell the man's name correctly.

That is one thing I did not know.
Do you know anywhere where pictures of his designs can be found?

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I believe Geiger's concept drawings were mostly for an earlier attempt to film Dune; an attempt that would have featured Salvador Dali as a mad Emperor with a robot double, Leto Atredies having been castrated by a rampaging bull and conceiving Paul on his virgin concubine with his blood, and all manner of other lunatic craziness.

The would-be-director - a Polish-Mexican called Alexandro Jodorowski - supposedly had a dream vision that told him to film Dune, and he had this solid belief that Frank Herbert did not really write Dune so much as absorb the idea fro the universe and regurgitate, and that therefore it didn't belong to him creatively. Jodorowski is considered alternately to be an unsung genius or a crazy person.

I wish I were making this stuff up. Have a quick search for Jodorowski, you'll probably find a copy of his ramblings on the vision that was his Dune project.

The Prophet.