After his film "The Holy Mountain" of 1974, Jodorowsky was asked to direct a film version of Frank Herbert’s epic 1965 science fiction novel "Dune" but the project had collapsed, and except for the children’s fable "Tusk" in 1980 he seemed to have disappeared from the international scene. Claudio Argento located him and talked to his agent. Jodorowsky agreed to a meeting in Paris, but he wanted to meet only Leoni because he wanted to meet who wrote the story. Leoni went to Paris and met Jodorowsky, who wanted to know when exactly he wrote the story. Leoni remembered it was during a certain night and Jodorowsky was disappointed because that night he went to sleep early and the angel of stories passed over Paris to bring him the story, saw that he slept and continued to Rome, saw that Leoni was awake and gave him the story. But the story was his and Leoni was a thief!