Everyone knows David Lynch is the big man behind the scenes twin peaks, But his co-founder Mark Frost Learn many secrets about this town both wonderful and strange.In a new interview, he discussed the pressure he and Lynch felt to solve the show’s central mystery, and Showtime revival Next (what could it be?).
Speaking diversification In a must-read article twin peaks Frost revealed that the timing of revealing Laura Palmer’s killer – a question that has plagued fans week after week – was brought forward at the insistence of ABC, which had not yet been acquired by Disney.
“The network literally had a gun to our heads. I remember if we didn’t deliver this, they were going to stop sending us money. They wanted to get it as soon as season two started,” Frost said. “But David always said, ‘We should never solve this mystery – this should go on forever.’ Part of me thinks he was probably right… but it was still 1992, and it was still the network Television, they’re just steadfast.”
although twin peaks Originally only running for two seasons, Lynch and Frost did pitch the idea of a third season to then-ABC executive Bob Iger, now famously the CEO of Disney. Although Frost recalled Iger as “a true champion of the show,” the network “wanted to move on.”Years later, when Frost and Lynch began planning return, they went back to the basic idea for Season 3 (“Bad Cooper is loose in the world, and Good Cooper is trapped in the world”), but they knew they didn’t want to make a web series this time around. Frost called it “an 18-hour movie” and “we just wanted to go way beyond the old movies.” twin peaks This will be something completely new. “
Variety was careful not to ask directly, but there was no way to end the interview without asking about the ending. return— and the possibility of a fourth season. “I think we’re happy with how it ended… It kind of revealed Cooper’s tragic flaw, which was that he couldn’t be good enough on his own. He thought there were always mistakes that needed to be righted, that there were always mistakes that needed to be made right. There are people who need saving. The truth is, life is not that simple. Interfering with these forces can have unforeseen consequences,” he said. As for more? Back to 2020“Nothing is happening on that front,” Lynch said. “You never say never, but we’re not talking about anything going forward right now,” Frost said.
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