Twin Peaks returns to television.

[Silva]

Twin Peaks doesn't exactly look a cheap series to produce, particularly when it's such a short number of episodes and Showtime doesn't run ads (I think). If Lynch went overboard with the sets (Twin Peaks had the police station, the mill, the Great Northern, the Double R Diner, the Palmers/Johnsons/Packards/Hurleys home, One Eyed Jacks, Black Lodge -as cheap as it is - etc etc etc), it could easily make production a lot more expensive than anticipated, and Lynch certainly isn't going to cut corners.

 

[krtek a houby]

He could take the Dogville approach

 

[Silva]

Dogville is like the wormhole of stage cost-cutting

 

[ska invita]

Its on again! http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2015/may/16/david-lynch-new-series-twin-peaks-showtime

 

[Silva]

which will total more than the originally announced nine hours

This makes sense. I still believe the biggest issue was that for SHO the return on investment to "get things right" would be spotty , and an extra 3 or 4 episodes would make it easier to sell the show as miniseries across the world. It would be a months' worth of episodes.

 

[Silva]

18 (!) new episodes. I guess this should be enough to allow Lynch to tell the story as he wants, and give Showtime a lot of mileage for their investment

 

[mwgdrwg]

Amazing news, and Angelo Badalamenti is scoring

 

[Silva]

And hey, the best legs in Twin Peaks are making a return.

 

[elbows]

Bah, it won't be shown on telly till 2017 according to recent comments from Mark Frost.

I've still got some concern as to whether Lynch will bail again at some point if things aren't going amazingly during production, but hopefully there are enough people involved from the original series to keep him feeling secure & good about things.

 

[elbows]

News:

http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2015/aug/11/twin-peaks-david-lynch-long-movie-episodes

At Tuesday’s Showtime TCA executive session in Los Angeles, Showtime Networks president David Nevins revealed that Lynch and his Twin Peaks co-creator Mark Frost wrote one long script for the entire series, and that Lynch will in turn shoot it as one long movie, which will be edited down into individual episodes.

The series was initially supposed to run for nine episodes, but Nevins said there will likely be more once the footage is broken down. Adding to the mystery, IMDbcurrently lists 18 Twin Peaks episodes in pre-production. Shooting is slated to begin in September, according to Deadline.

The new episodes will either premiere in 2016 or 2017. Said Nevins: “I’ll take it when it’s ready. I hope that’s sooner rather than later.”

 

[elbows]

So, it returns to US TV on May 21st with a 2 hour episode. Then two more 1 hour episodes available on demand, then the rest rolled out on a mostly weekly schedule. Seems to be reported as being either 18 hours or 18 episodes long (not sure how those two are compatible with first episode being 2 hours long, unless thats being counted as 2 episodes or one of these reports is in error). I dont think there is a date for UK viewing yet (on Sky Atlantic I think).

 

[mwgdrwg]

Less than a fucking month to go!

 

[mwgdrwg]

How's Annie?

 

[Sea Star]

inland empire was excellent
i think he was left smarting by foolish bad reviews and said he might never make another film
looking at this scene from the final episode it seems this 25 year update was always on the cards
he's never put a foot wrong in his entire career - nothing can go wrong with this its going to be wonderful

Similar to what i was going to say.

 

[billy_bob]

How's Annie?

I often think this when I look in the bathroom mirror.

 

[elbows]

I guess I better start rewatching the originals again soon in preparation for the exciting return. The original binge TV program if ever there was one, but boy do I not miss lugging a box of video tapes around!

 

[Who PhD]

I saw a clip, it must have been a trailer. It looks as though they are just having everyone continue their roles as if the last 25 years never happened. It's the most bizzare thing, all playing the same roles in spite of their obvious age and appearance!

 

[SpookyFrank]

I saw a clip, it must have been a trailer. It looks as though they are just having everyone continue their roles as if the last 25 years never happened. It's the most bizzare thing, all playing the same roles in spite of their obvious age and appearance!

Previous Lynch collaborators Laura Dern and Naomi Watts are in the new series too.

 

[milehp]

I saw a clip, it must have been a trailer. It looks as though they are just having everyone continue their roles as if the last 25 years never happened. It's the most bizzare thing, all playing the same roles in spite of their obvious age and appearance!

Really?
I'd be felling a bit iffy about that tbh.

 

[elbows]

From the clips I've seen I dont think I'd draw that conclusion. People continuing their roles but nothing that tells me they are all carrying on as if 25+ years hasnt passed. Or even if there is anything along those lines to start with, I would expect it to eventually make sense in some wacky way. There were about 8 million cliff-hangers at the end of the tv series and various people who have died in real life so how continuity is handled will be interesting.

 

[elbows]

Talking of real life deaths, Michael Parks who played Jean Renault has died For a somewhat limited role his performance left quite an impression on me, perfectly sinister.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Talking of real life deaths, Michael Parks who played Jean Renault has died For a somewhat limited role his performance left quite an impression on me, perfectly sinister.

He's superb in Kevin Smith's Red State, which was written specifically for him.

 

[elbows]

He's superb in Kevin Smith's Red State, which was written specifically for him.

Thanks for the tip - not sure I'd have recognised him as the same guy in anything else. Watched a clip of Red State and it certainly looked interesting!

Meanwhile I am getting rather excited at how few days remain till a fresh dose of Twin Peaks after all these years.

 

[elbows]

I didnt realise the first two are being shown at 2am as well as the regular uk timeslot of tuesday 9pm. So just over 13 hours left, ooh.

 

[Who PhD]

The owls are torrenting!

 

[Who PhD]

What the actual fuck

 

[Yata]

on ep3 now, all the agent coopers are throwing up and i dunno what the fuck

 

[Orang Utan]

on ep3 now, all the agent coopers are throwing up and i dunno what the fuck

How? Only one episode has been broadcast, hasn't it?

 

[elbows]

How? Only one episode has been broadcast, hasn't it?

The first two episodes were broadcast as one long 2 hour episode, and then the next 2 episodes were made available on demand.

 

[Orang Utan]

The first two episodes were broadcast as one long 2 hour episode, and then the next 2 episodes were made available on demand.

Oh right I could only see E01 on my torrents