[kranke155]

My impression from watching the Dune documentary is he couldn’t get money to get the movies he wanted to make.

So he turned to graphic novels with Moebius, which I believe were successful (leading him to make a lot of them with a variety of artists - Manara, Jimenez).

My impression from the Dune documentary is he could find enough funding to pay for all the pre production work that now is in the book, which including hiring 3-4 artists. So I’m not sure he stop making films because he couldn’t get the funding, since the impression is he got enough to pay for those guys to work for him for a while.