[4] Broccoli rescinded his offer after Dali requested an excessive fee; the artist Fergus Hall produced the ones featured in the film.
[4] But Dali continued to work on his version, including his and Gala's faces in the deck, and the former James Bond, Sean Connery, instead of Roger Moore who appeared in that film.
In his Surrealist style, many of the Tarot subjects were depicted as well-known classical paintings reimagined and with collage elements.
[4] Pollack had been introduced to Tarot in 1970, and had published Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom, an interpretive guide, in 1980 and 1983.
[5] Dave Langford reviewed Salvador Dali's Tarot for White Dwarf #71, and stated that "I have no faith in fortune-telling, but the cabalistic symbolism is fascinating ... especially when refracted through the eye of a supremely dotty surrealist.