Alejandro Jodorowsky, who had earlier been disappointed by the collapse of his own attempt to film "Dune", later said he had been disappointed and jealous when he learned Lynch was making "Dune", as he believed Lynch was the only other director capable of doing justice to the novel. At first, Jodorowsky refused to see Lynch's film, but his sons dragged him. As the film unfolded, Jodorowsky says, he became very happy, seeing that it was a "failure". Jodorowsky added that this was certainly the producers' fault and not Lynch's.