SpiceDAO made a huge bid for the book, one of a few copies still in existence, which was part of a number of landmark auctions for collector items last year. Spider-Man's debut in Amazing Fantasy generated a record breaking bid that was driven by people with more money than sense, as well as rare copies of Mario and Zelda games, which were also wildly-overestimation record breaking bids. The Christie's sale of Jodorowsky's Dune was no exception to this trend, and was one of the ways in which the Decentralized Autonomous Organizations are pooling together millions of dollars from supporting the owners of cryptocurrencies. There was a failed attempt to purchase the US constitution, and now there is SpiceDAO, which is a future streaming service. SpiceDAO thinks they own Dune by spending three million dollars on these.
SpiceDAO attracted a lot of attention over the weekend by repeating their plans for Jorowsky's Dune. It is admirable that the first to make the book public with a new digitized copy while the purchased physical book is stored in a fine art quality storage with a professional, insured service is something that has never happened with other copies of the book before. The other two plans involve turning the storyboards into an animated series to sell to a streaming service, and also having done that, encourage derivative projects based on the manuscript from the people who backed the bid in the first place.
Dune is still an adaptation of Frank Herbert's novel. Someone who bought a copy of the book of storyboards expecting to transfer the rights to those storyboards or the story itself would be like someone who bought a copy of the book of storyboards expecting to go to Sony. Or, maybe, you walk into a book store and pick up a copy of Dune with the cast from the movie on the cover, and think to yourself, "How is Chapter Two yoursnow?"
SpiceDAO has admitted that this would be a significant roadblock to adaptation, and has decided to create something inspired by the work instead. Over the last 50 years, the seeds for nearly every sci-fi project were planted by the expansive vision for Dune. While we don't own the intellectual property to Frank Herbert's masterpiece, we are uniquely positioned with the opportunity to create our own addition to the genre as an homage to the giants who came before us. The legal rights of Jodorowsky's estate, which were purchased by SpiceDAO, would have to be carefully considered in any project that came out of the purchase. Why would SpiceDAO need to purchase a pitch bible to create something that was inspired by Dune and the aesthetic Jodorowsky and his team envisioned, if they were so intent on creating an original work?
Is it possible that you couldn't run an ancillary grift of getting those people who supported the bid in the first place to invest in your own Dune-themedcryptocurrency that way? The spice must flow either way.
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