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Yeah I’m suspicious. There’s no record of him being at that address. The way he refers to “the College” in the letter makes it sound like he’s a Georgetown student. And after hearing so much about Lynch’s early creative work (like Gardenback) it feels odd we’d have never heard a peep about this.

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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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David Lynch | "Volunteers" Rare Early Screenplay from 1971

If true, it would seemingly be Lynch's first full-length completed script, done between his short THE GRANDMOTHER and the start of his work on ERASERHEAD. I've never heard of Lynch having worked on anything remotely like this, so AFAIK it'd be breaking news. www.juliensauctions.com/en/items/210...

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--------- @fatecolossal.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

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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Fwiw: THE LEGEND OF THE HAPPY WORKER (dir. by Twin Peaks editor Duwayne Dunham, exec produced by David Lynch, from a screenplay (by others) Lynch gave to Dunham post-BLUE VELVET) is finally being released, after wrapping filming in 2018. Co-stars Amy Shiels. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

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‘Dracula’ by Radu Jude, David Lynch-Exec Produced ‘Happy Worker’ Set for Locarno Lineup

New movies from Abdelletif Kechiche, Vincent Grashaw, and Ben Rivers will also premiere at the Swiss fest, with artistic director Giona A. Nazzaro saying: "Let's regain the world one film at a time."

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I was hoping to get a chance to ask Hurley that (understanding that he may well not know since that was before his time) but never got an opportunity, alas.

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Which character that voice is supposed to be on the other side of Mr. C’s call is one of The Return’s thornier questions, and certainly isn’t getting resolved in this thread (indeed, its ambiguity is part of the point), but it’s nonetheless interesting to receive new information about it 8 yrs later

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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.

While fans have previously guessed at any number of performers providing these voices with some technical manipulation (Lynch himself, Sheryl Lee, Grace Z., Al S., Sherilyn F., etc.), I think there’s a certain Lynchian logic in them being Hurley, the TP Sound & Music Supervisor…

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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More from Kyle (via NPR's Wild Card) re: his last meeting w Lynch: "He loved a chocolate croissant...So we'd go to Porto's, a great bakery in the valley, & get some croissant there & bring it back, open up the box, & he'd be like, 'YEAH!'...he'd just stuff it in <makes gobbling sounds>. So much fun.

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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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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 · 19/06/2025

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

Correction, fwiw: the final selling price for all the script copies was actually $760,500. (I failed to realize that the Lost Highway and Wild at Heart lots still hadn't yet come up for final bidding when I posted the initial tweet.)

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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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Yeah, I thought of mentioning the FWWM drafts too, but it was unclear to me how much included in the auction lot was of previously unreleased/unleaked material... I have to believe that at a minimum this all will be in his public archives. (Possibly some published too, along with Unrecorded Night.)

Presumably these scripts for Dream of the Bovine and the updated Ronnie Rocket will one day be available to the public (via his archives, at a minimum), but in the meantime only the highest bidders have access to these significant works from David's writing ouevre.

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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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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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I do not mean to suggest that the show will ever have Mark waking up from a dream, or some such, or that the show is not also intended to represent other things as well. It’s all complicated; hopefully I can write something formally on it all eventually.

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