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FWIW, they're also selling another copy of Lynch's (to-date publicly unreleased) screenplay THE DREAM OF THE BOVINE, from the estate of Harry Dean Stanton. They include a sample page of the screenplay, the first ever publicly released excerpt from it, AFAIK. Dumb wordplay galore!

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I don't think someone would make up something this specific. And it seems quite a coincidence if a totally different David Lynch were responsible for writing this, and it's all a big mix-up... and yet! That's what I lean towards: two David Lynches. A David doppelgänger. Anyone else have thoughts?

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They claim Lynch sent the script to an independent producer (and Georgetown prof.) in '71 while seeking to stir up interest in it. They include Lynch's purported cover letter; they acknowledge the signature is not his handwriting, but speculate someone secretarial helped him with the cover letter.

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Julien's is auctioning a screenplay titled VOLUNTEERS it claims David Lynch wrote in 1971; it's purportedly "a military satire" that "follows a group of young men who have been drafted to go to Vietnam" & engage in "various hijinks" to get out of it. I don't know if I believe them...

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That angle is particularly relevant to The Return given its oneiric throughlines. In Hurley’s case, the fact that he was the Sound/Music Supervisor is of additional salience, given the seemingly critical (if nebulous) role “sounds” play in The Return’s web of meaning.

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Lynch appreciated the suggestive resonance of having creators of the film themselves appear as characters—think, e.g., Cori Glazer, Script Supervisor for Mulholland Dr., appearing as the Blue-Haired “Silencio” lady. Or Lynch as Gordon Cole, the dreamer who lives inside the dream.

Hurley added that there are “quite a number of things” he voiced in The Return, mentioning the voice of Johnny Horne’s teddy bear, but leaving the rest unspecified. For what it’s worth, my guess is that Hurley also provides the voice for The Evolution of the Arm…

Hurley: “That’s kind of me there. And that was always a confusing plot point to me, because I’m thinking it needed to be Phillip - he’s supposedly calling Phillip Jeffries… It’s so hard sort of figuring out his stuff in general, but I feel like some of those clues are like there…”

--------- @fatecolossal.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

A nugget that real Twin Peaks heads may find interesting: over the weekend at Metrograph, Dean Hurley revealed (I believe for the first time) who performs “the mysterious voice [speaking to Mr. C] on the other end of the box in the hotel room, after shooting Darya” in Part 2: him.

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TP Sound/Music Supervisor Dean Hurley at Metrograph’s Twin Peaks (2017) screening: “[Mixing TP] I got a call from [David Lynch], he was just like, ‘I listened to it on my computer speakers & IT FUCKING SUCKS, WE NEED TO FIX ALL OF THIS!’ Filled w fervor, he wanted everyone to experience *the thing*”

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--------- @fatecolossal.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Peter Deming on Lynch's unfinished projects: "In the time I knew him, there were half a dozen projects that almost got off the ground, & I never found out exactly why they didn’t, but I know it’s down to control. If he doesn’t get final cut, he won’t do it." bsky.app/profile/fate...

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--------- @fatecolossal.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Peter Deming on UNRECORDED NIGHT: "We went on one location scout, David hired a produdction designer, & was talking to Laura [Dern] & Naomi [Watts] about parts in it, & then COVID happened.... I know Jennifer [Lynch] & the kids are talking about publishing it as a book." bsky.app/profile/fate...

--------- @fatecolossal.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Kyle MacLachlan on his last mtg w/ David Lynch: "He was very much about the Next Thing, & trying to figure out a way to direct, but to do it remotely. And that was gonna be an option. Certainly he was not in the best of health, but he was like, We've got more work to do." www.npr.org/transcripts/...

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--------- @fatecolossal.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

David Foster Wallace in '96: "Dentistry seems to be a new passion for Lynch, btw—the photo on the title page of Lost Highway's script, which is of a guy with half his face normal & half unbelievably distended & ventricose & gross, was apparently plucked from a textbook on extreme dental emergencies"

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Finally, some interesting thoughts by Dean Hurley on Lynch's "DIY approach" (where Hurley reveals that he himself is the voice of Johnny Horne's bear saying "hello Johnny, how are you today?"). [Recommend reading the article, linked in QT above, which also interviews Frost...]

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Via the same article (linked above): Dana Ashbrook—"he was aware of his own eccentricity. In [The Return] there’s a scene where I go and talk to Norma...during rehearsal he comes up and pulls me aside and says, ‘hey, I can’t believe I’m telling you this, but could you be less weird?’ [laughs]

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David Lynch was still actively preparing UNRECORDED NIGHT when he died: "It was probably the best thing he ever did...we were still writing up until the point he passed away. We were getting ready to go back to Netflix because he had reenvisioned some things" Sabrina Sutherland, via t.co/8XF0YJoUHD

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The only pieces in the entire auction that give me pause are the never-before-seen-by-the-public draft scripts for unproduced films: Dream of the Bovine, and the 2012 redraft of Ronnie Rocket (the 80s script versions have long been available online).

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--------- @fatecolossal.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Copies of scripts from David Lynch's personal collection sold at auction for $612,000 today. (Note: This auction of a subset of his possessions is happening per David's wishes, w/ proceeds split among his family. His creative archives will be relocated to a school or museum TBD.)

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On the ending of The Return: “Initially [we] were of 2 minds…I felt going back and rescuing Laura, & then having the mystery of her death disappear from people’s memory might be an extraordinary way to bring us back to ground zero. But David…said, he has to pay a price for what he’s trying to do…”

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--------- @fatecolossal.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Mark Frost on the Empire Film Podcast today re: how he & David Lynch discussed bringing back Josie in Twin Peaks: The Return - “I pitched, okay somebody’s walking through the basement of The Great Northern, where they store old used furniture…And somebody hears somebody yelling for help...

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--------- @fatecolossal.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Jennifer Lynch says David Lynch’s children “aren’t sure anyone else can direct” his unproduced work UNRECORDED NIGHT. “We are considering offering that as a published piece, so that people can sit with his ideas.” She also says Kyle MacLachlan, Laura Dern & Naomi Watts would have been in it.

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--------- @fatecolossal.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Re the possibility of Frost continuing the Twin Peaks saga without Lynch, note (a) he merely said he’d think about it, (b) continuation could proceed via another book, like the two previous ones Frost wrote bookending The Return, & (c) both men have made TP installments sans the other

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--------- @fatecolossal.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

On what made Lynch special: “He was fearlessly creative in the face of anything that came his way, and he was eternally challenging himself to meet that moment and do something more than he had before; it was an ethos and way of living. He was an artist first, last and foremost.”

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--------- @fatecolossal.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Had been thinking of making a post recommending BABYLON BERLIN for ANDOR fans who are capable of watching intelligent dramas about rising fascism without any wisecracking robots or space lasers.... & was thrilled to see Gilroy himself repeatedly, effusively praise BB.

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--------- @fatecolossal.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

ANDOR-creator Tony Gilroy on the show's biggest inspiration, BABYLON BERLIN (which I highly recommend): "That show blew me away—how beautiful it was, how rich and complex...yet it was an amazing adventure story.... That was kind of a benchmark for me like, Man... we have to be that."

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--------- @fatecolossal.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

This serves as an excuse for me to link yet again, below, to my case for considering TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN a long-form film. www.tumblr.com/fatecolossal... (Despite the endurance of this topic as a point of contention, nobody seems to really like to consider the question seriously…) Excerpts:

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--------- @fatecolossal.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Jarmusch & Cronenberg remember David Lynch as “a strange, beautiful gift to cinema & expression in general,” praise TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN as “one of the best things in a number of years” & “pretty hypnotic,” & both agree that “It’s really an 18-hour film.” Via Interview Mag: t.co/oV9LlY93Zy

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--------- @fatecolossal.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Jennifer Lynch on her late father David Lynch's art practice: "If he was curious about it, or had an idea about it, he did it. He was not fearless, but he was so curious that the fear didn't matter. He just loved being here. He loved being alive. He loved it." Via Blue Rose mag—

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--------- @fatecolossal.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

That Drummond-Mark fight scene in the climactic moments of the #Severance S2 finale... "It's the same guy fighting himself, defeating his own psyche. Ego death."

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--------- @fatecolossal.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

So someone apparently posted my below Severance thread on its main subreddit, where it attracted >300 comments, a number of them extremely negative (ahh, Reddit). I thus quickly wrote a follow-up comment (reddit.com/r/SeveranceApp… ) where I elaborate on some of its points. See here, fwiw:

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This may all well turn out to be incorrect (although if so, it won't be because it's wrong to read so much into the wording of the show's dialogue—Severance loves wordplay & oblique references). And if correct, there's likely much more to the story...E.g., did Cobel get pregnant?

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(And fwiw, from another TP perspective, the town of Salt's Neck gave real Deer Meadow vibes. The inverse of a dream town; a faded and sick place steeped in drugs. Small towns of tired old diners & trailer parks. Forgotten realms... And the "mill" also calls to mind TP.)

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As a Twin Peaks fan (watching an episode centered around a Lynch actress, no less), a lot of all this rings familiar. A girl is a star in her town, but has a troubling intimate relationship w a patriarchal figure. She dissociates, & has a drug-dealer boyfriend...

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Cobel's aunt says Jame "saw Kier in [her.]" Earlier, Cobel talks of how "Kier & Imogene [his young wife] met." Insofar as this reference seems intended to tee up a comparison, it seems more likely the stand-in for Kier in the analogy is Jame, his descendant, than it is Hampton.

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