Twin Peaks: Classic or Dud?

Why wouldn't Moira Kelly be back?

I don't know that she won't be. I'd just be (mostly pleasantly) surprised if the actors who were only in Fire Walk With Me transitioned into the new series.

I only found out about that getty thing today on a twin peaks site (I've never read the dfw piece on lynch)

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that same site is now claiming that harry dean stanton has been spotted filming

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Holding out hope for Agents Chester Desmond and Phillip Jeffries.

this is a bummer, but c'mon Forster's a great choice as a replacement

Yeah, Forster is a great replacement, and certainly a better actor, but that is a bummer. Harry is kind of the honest good soul of the show, and Ontkean nicely underplayed the role.

Also he's so pivotal to resolving that cliffhanger (which is the one thing I really want to see, even more than an entire new series).

maybe Bob goes into Harry and turns Harry into Robert Forster

I would prefer Forster straight-up playing Truman as opposed to a new character shoehorned into place tbh

is it like when bill pullman turns into balthazar getty

Well it is 25 years later right? I can imagine not everybody stayed in that town for 25 years.

I was happy with the ending the way it was but yeah def feel like any resolution has to include Truman which is prob why they recast rather than just write the character out

Would really have loved to see ontkean & maclachlan again tho, he's retired af if he won't come back for this. Ah well, it's not the first time a major role's been recast in twin peaks

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to be clear, it is not confirmed that Forster is playing Truman:

Rumor has it that veteran actor Robert Forster has stepped in to replace Ontkean as the town’s top lawman, although it’s unclear if he will be playing Truman or a new sheriff.

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Also Harry was covertly the best-looking dude on the show

eh he was clearly intended as the hearthrob, that's why he got that whole stupid Josie love affair plotline

I don't know that she won't be. I'd just be (mostly pleasantly) surprised if the actors who were only in Fire Walk With Me transitioned into the new series.

my dream opening is chris issak bewitched-style popping up in the black lodge finding cooper.

haha

side note, this may be common knowledge but i only recently learned that Klaus Kinski's daughter had a daughter with Quincy Jones, and this is that daughter:

http://www1.pictures.zimbio.com/gi/Cindi+Leive+Jane+Buckingham+Celebrate+Rashida+j0jRtO3v7iIx.jpg

Holy wow.

Quincy got good genes.

i went to twin peaks fest 2 years ago (which was p kewl. i met mz fenn and a bunch of other cast members) so i made friends with a bunch of the "superfan" community, so a lot of my fb feed has been pictures of them just HANGING OUT by the set all day together taking selfies. it's making me irrationally angry, like wtf let the people work you don't have to be there while the thing is being filmed. i couldnt imagine just hanging out all day while john cassavetes was making a movie taking selfies. this goes into a deeper conversation about how fans of things think they own the thing they are a fan of and they are special snowflakes that should get to be there while the thing is being filmed because they are the most passionate or w/e but god it makes me mad.

I have a feeling that people who are that precious about it are bound to be huuuuugely disappointed by whatever insane thing Lynch ultimately puts out.

a deeper conversation about how fans of things think they own the thing they are a fan of and they are special snowflakes that should get to be there while the thing is being filmed because they are the most passionate

This so much, with everything.

fans of things today are basically intoxicated with access, it can be p nice but it can be v gross

Was really looking forward to more scenes with Truman and Albert Rosenfield and then thought - has Miguel Ferrer been spotted?

It just occurred to me how admirably Miguel Ferrer has avoided cashing his chips and riding his cousin's coattails to a William Mapother-esque career.

Mad respect for Ferrer that's one biography i want to read.

Guess he's in! https://twitter.com/Miguel_J_Ferrer/status/599622511588835328

it's kind of weird how no one aside from McLachlan has really been confirmed for this; if shooting started already aren't people being seen in the area? Are they hiding out in disguise? Have no actual actors shown up yet?

I hope the series starts with Donna's funeral

tons of ppl have been seen and have been confirmed thats why we were all like "wow its amazing everyone is coming back"

I keep just seeing "only mclachlan is confirmed to return" so who is the full list? IMDB lists:

dana ashbrook
kyle mclachlan
sherilyn fenn
kimmy robertson
sheryl lee

and that's it for returning people for more than one episode. a crapload of others are listed for 1 episode only but it seems like just the complete list of original cast, to me, so that seems all pretty unlikely.

new people:

amanda seyfrief
balthazar getty

loads of people have been reported on-set shooting see upthread

haha I take it back those are all imdb links

list is longer than yrs tho

that wordless ontkean close-up in "the descendants" was so odd. it's obvious that he probably had a smallish speaking role that was trimmed out in the editing.

oh I missed that list above. keenly leaves out Fenn....she's been quiet on FB lately too. Hope she's back.

what happens to audrey at the end of the show is somewhat ambiguous i guess but i feel like not really?

SPOILER ALERT

that was a p big explosion she was very close to

i feel like there is no way this going to be good but i will of course watch it

Almost off-topic but I was very disappointed to find out recently that Lynch's transcendental meditation thing is not just a relaxation/concentration technique but a full-blown moneymaking cult. Not nearly the craziest or evilest cult but still pretty loopy and dodgy. Of course it's been going on long before him but it's sad that he's contributing to it.

xpost I think it stands a very good chance of being good. I think it also stands the chance, however, of not closely resembling classic Twin Peaks.

full-blown moneymaking cult

eh not really

I mean they aren't the Moonies or Sai Baba or Heaven's Gate or even Scientology

im really looking forward to attending the invincible donovan university in edinburgh once it's up and running

From what I've seen and read there is quite a lot paying to learn things that could be done for free. And the promise of magic powers.

they're not dhamma.org but they're largely non-profit and there's no dogma, there's no isolating practitioners from their families/lives, there's no hierarchies based on abuse, there's no indoctrination etc.

I mean, they're pretty harmless. Complaining that they make money from their activities is legit imo, (if you don't think religions should charge people for things, which I happen to agree with), but again with these types of organization the line between religion and idk "educational" outfit is pretty blurry.

it works for Lynch (obviously) so I don't really gaf personally

Maharishi was always a bit of a suspect figure and anything that has Mike Love as a core supporter is suspect to me.

although if Mike Love showed up on twin peaks as some kind of deranged creature from the black lodge or some woodlands dweller with a basement full of corpses, I'd like him a lot more.