David Lynch - Classic or Dud

also, if the speculation about the budget ($85M) is close to correct, it confirms the hilariously transparently grumpy interviews lynch was giving a few years ago where he was complaining that he couldn't do movies because he couldn't get money. he negotiates in a lynchian way, i guess. and now he's doing movies that are 12 times the length of normal movies, with a big budget

25 hours/85 mil is unverified but if that’s actually true or close to true, that’s fucking wild.

Netflix has more money than God, but curious about their calculus if those details are true. Made sense for Showtime to grab TP The Return to stand out, but not sure what Netflix would gain. I also have no idea how much these shows typically cost.

That Nicholas Refn series on Prime that seemingly 50 people watched (it’s awesome btw) is kind of a similar thing. All for corporate behemoths throwing millions at auteur directors to do whatever the fuck they want, just curious about those meetings.

I had a feeling the Netflix thing would be the antelope don’t run no more, the feature film he was trying to get funded that was cited in the recent bio - iirc it had elements of mulholland dr people who’ve read the script say it’s the best thing he’s ever written. I’m ok with a series tho

Netflix has more money than God

Netflix has close to sixteen billion dollars in debt.

Tesla has 18 trillion dollars of debt. They will borrow more and be fine

It’s only regular people who have to pay money back

Sixteen billion dollars in debt and they can't afford to stream any good films ffs

Shooting starting in may 2021 seems ambitious tbh but this will prob still have a less protracted gestation than twin peaks the return

He moves in Wisteria's maze.

(That pun has been in my head since Achtung Baby came out. Thought I'd go to my grave without every having an excuse to use it.)

rumours had been swirling about regarding this project for a while, it sounded like the original plan may have been to start shooting may this year until covid happened?

XP good payoff imo

(to pun) I'll say you in 25 years.

is it controversial to say the sax playing in lost highway is good not bad

it’s fun

it's bold

the sax playing, i mean

i've only seen lost highway a few times, but i love the sax in it

My only gripe with the sax is that I can never understand the dialog in the early scenes so I crank up the volume, and then get blown out by that sax. I assume this was by design.

the sax is one of the best parts

The sax scene is second only to The Lost Boys imho

the new series is now known as Unrecorded Night

https://welcometotwinpeaks.com/news/unrecorded-night-david-lynch-netflix/

That is a great title tbh

yeah way cooler imho

Imagining lynch’s people putting the title out there after he is dismayed at everyone making desperate housewives jokes, similar to the agent Jeffries thing where he was like “it’s just a device, why does everyone keep calling it a tea kettle”

Colour me excited for this btw, Netflix is good now

My hometown (home of the world's largest wistaria plant) actually has an annual Wistaria Festival so without any evidence* I'm hoping that it will all be filmed here.

*A lot of film production is done here... Laura Palmer's funeral in the original TP was filmed in the town cemetery.

i hate seinfeld but

starting 2021 by making the dumbest and most niche stuff imaginable. here's part two of Seinfeld: The Return, my series where i imagine a Seinfeld revival in the style of Twin Peaks pic.twitter.com/02BfAOpWHA

— dom nero (@dominicknero) January 2, 2021

Happy Birthday, DL!
Also, currently reading "Room To Dream" and it's great. The definitive (auto)biography?

sorry to #onethread but if the GOP was smart they'd try to tap him for the next GOP nominee

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeU8-HqUgYA

the great fillummaker

So, something may happen tomorrow, or not, or...

David Lynch's announcement, tomorrow, February 1st. pic.twitter.com/ltPvZa3hY1

— Black Lodge Cult (@BlackLCult) January 31, 2021

Thinking about him pic.twitter.com/otHOQFJy7y

— meg “yar” bitchell (@MeganBitchell) January 31, 2021

What are the chances that TP S4 may be coming? Several cast members obliquely chimed in on twitter.

whomst?

I have to imagine chances are low if he's focusing on a whole new project.

it's possible the new netflix project could be twin peaks-related and lynch has said the occasional thing which has suggested that could be the case

I'm guessing it will be Peaks related to the same extent Mulholland Dr is Peaks related.

my hopes are some new series that's funded and substantial,
my expectations are the february weather outlook

im furiously refreshing david lynch's youtube channel lol

Keep us posted.

I don't know if it was posted itt or in a different t but someone noted that the production company name affiliated with the new Lynch project has only previously been used for TP-related projects. So...

looooooool

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QapYuD5hDVw

Hahaha

what a fucking gem

I'm so stupid that a major part of my brain is like "ok but maybe he's saving something for the number picking video"

Never dream, and you’ll never fail to achieve your dream

Lost Highway is so great. “50,000 PEOPLE DIED ON THE HIGHWAY LAST YEAR!”

I really recommend “Room To Dream” . Based on the anecdotes in there about how physically gruelling it was for him to make TP:TR I’d be surprised if he puts himself through something similar again.

“AND YOU...what the fuck is your name?”

I'm sort of fascinated by Lynch's late-career presence in the culture, his weather reports, this kind of affection that I feel like a lot of people feel for him even if they haven't seen all of his work. Thinking about him a lot lately, because we've been doing the entire Twin Peaks run with our kids (skipping a lot of the non-Lynch backhalf of S2). We're all the way thru Fire Walk With Me and up to about episode 6 of TP:TR. The kids (ages 13 and 16) both get him, they think he's weird and funny and disturbing, they laugh and freak out in all the right places.

He almost reminds me of Bob Dylan, the way he has both created a remarkable, enduring and influential body of work (I see so many things in so many movies, music videos, TV shows that have obviously absorbed Lynch) and has also created himself as a figure, a sort of friendly unreliable narrator that you're always happy to hear from.