David Lynch’s OP chief lifts (a little) the veil on the mystery of his Netflix abandoned series

Peter Deming speaks of a long history depicting “another Los Angeles cannon mirror in Lost Highway, Mulholland Drive and Inland Empire.

One thing is certain: David Lynch will have left many mysteries behind him. Naomi Watts, one of his favorite actresses (Mulholland Drive, Twin Peaks: The Return), had said that the filmmaker had well resume work Before he died last January. Watts had remained evasive, but she was probably talking about the famous abandoned project Unrecorded Night. Peter Demingdirector of photography on many works by Lynch – Lost Highway, Mulholland Drive and Twin Peaks: The Return – Unveiled some details in the media The Film Stage About this ultra-ambitious series developed for Netflix:

“Shortly before his death – well, a few years ago, because it was before the covid – there was Unrecorded Night that he had written. I had read it, and we went to locate to explore the premises. Then the covid struck, so everything stopped and it never resumed. ”

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After the health crisis, Unrecorded Night was highlighted a second time because of the diagnosis of pulmonary emphysem of Lynch, before completely disappearing with its creator. He had planned to realize 13 episodes of the series whose scenario was apparently a colossal volume, according to Peter Deming:

“There must have been a lot of episodes, because David (Lynch) particularly liked what he called the story continues. I love feature films but he said to me: ‘I won’t make movies anymore. I’m just going to do longer stories because I like longer stories. ‘ In fact, for Twin Peaks: The Returnwe were not really sure of the number of episodes before entering post-production, because it was not really written like that: it was a film of 550 pages. Unrecorded Nightit was the same. It took me three sessions to read it so thick, but it was clearly not Twin Peaks. ”

Unrecorded Night was therefore not planned to be a series of his successful series Twin Peaksbut another universe far from the forests of fir trees. When the chief operator was questioned on the subject of this story, he did not want to reveal too much:

“Are we going to sell the wick? I don’t want to be premature … He loved making films on Los Angeles (…) for me, it was another cannon of Los Angeles, a mixture of cinema and former Hollywood, and it was perhaps just the fourth in this range.”

Peter Deming refers to the aesthetic trilogy of Lynch on the subject: Lost Highway, Mulholland Drive And Inland Empire. “It was a really interesting mystery … I would say. It’s a shame, because it would have been good”, Add Deming without being able to really say more. The mystery therefore still hangs over Unrecorded Night…

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