Twin Peaks: Classic or Dud?

This all just seems like hardball negotiation tactics from Lynch. He knows he has power here and is holding out for more money, which I'm assuming he'll get.

They were clearly close to an agreement before; I'm sure they'll reach one soon.

Showtime must know that without Lynch this isn't going to make any money

If he really bails I will absolutely require those scripts to leak

apparently opens with Coop scaling a Dubai skyscraper to break into the top floor server room. next scene has Bruce Willis as himself. needs to be Bruce Willis for the script to work.

Bruce Willis as an apparition of a disappeared FBI agent a la David Bowie would be legit awesome though

little man dances atop a big pile of burning money. It has to be real money, and michael anderson has to really be on fire. This is a matter of principle for lynch

also this means no Gordon :/

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after a mini-freakout last night i have decided to withhold judgment until more details emerge. if this does turn out to be a negotiation tactic it's pretty brilliant.

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idk how brilliant a tactic negotiating in public is but it could work if a) Showtime can actually afford what Lynch is asking for and b) Showtime doesn't understand that without Lynch they have nothing

I wouldn't exactly call threatening to walk away from a project "brilliant", I mean this is pretty much negotiating 101 here.

yeah baffled by the comments here. scuppering the entire thing because he wants more % of dvd sales is hardly commendable

eh I love this guy and his work so much I would be cool with him demanding bajillion dollars tbh

give him the network. rename it davetime.

Wait is it that he wants a bigger slice, or that he wants a bigger budget to do it right?

he wants a street fighter car demolishing bonus stage between each cut

I'd say the latter, but all we have to go on is Lynch's tweet about money for the scripts

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yeah, it's all a bit vague. the dvd/streaming thing comes from 'will mcrabb' whoever he may be: https://twitter.com/mccrabb_will/status/577511601495928832

I left because not enough money was offered to do the script the way I felt it needed to be done.

that reads like production budget to me

I can't tell if that's Will McCrabb the cinematographer or some other will mccrabb

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give him the network. rename it davetime.

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better idea than more twin peaks tbh

24/7 bunnies

yeah to be clear in my conception davetime brims with original+exclusive content assembled from david lynch's personal editing chair and is not just like douglas sirk movies introduced robert-osborne-style by david lynch, not that that would not also be worthwhile

all the original+exclusive is bunnies tho obv yes

lol

Split up 'davetime' between Lynch and DLR and I am there

Not a bad idea. A lot of those '80s VH and DLR videos were pretty damn Lynchian.

Also I have to believe that if Showtime bungles this, the show ends up somewhere else. Netflix would be all over this.

Idk rights to this are p convoluted iirc

scuppering the entire thing because he wants more % of dvd sales is hardly commendable

The idea that Lynch is being greedy here is insanely ridiculous when he co-created, wrote, directed, acted in, and co-composed the soundtrack to the original series. It's also ridiculous when you consider he has been approached many many times before about going back to Twin Peaks and has always turned it down. If he was in this for the money he could have cashed in by now. He knows how much it takes out of him and probably only wants to do this if he is in it 100%.

Maybe none of us really know what's going on behind the scenes here and it's dumb to get fired up about it.

I'm very skeptical of the theory that he's playing hardball and they'll eventually come to an agreement. I suspect the chances of Lynch being a part of this now are very low.

the cast made a video

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=885752348164289&fref=nf

lol nice to see everybody

this whole thing is so fucking stupid, way to go Showtime

What would david lynch do with the extra money he is demanding?

According to his statement over the weekend, use it for the show's budget.

who's the woman at the end of the cast video?

She's the only one I couldn't name too! She's also the only one who fucks up the simile

Jennifer Lynch!

i'd say it's more insanely ridiculous to reach the point where the entire thing doesn't happen (or happens under someone else's inferior watch), all because a rich guy wants to be more rich. this is assuming the % points thing is true, nothing concrete has come out

Just watched that w/o sound bc GF is asleep but that was creepy as hell lol

Wait which rich guy are you talking about?

tv companies are generally in the business of making money, something more contemptuous about treasured auteur & good ol' boy dave walking away from his most-loved project all because he wants a new mansion. fans4eva huh

so just to be clear is everyone bad at reading comprehension or are we assuming lynch is just lying when he says the reason has to do with the budget to do the script justice, and not to buy him a solid gold house and rocket car?

I take lynch at his word bc he wants to drop out of film, paint, meditate and drink coffee (or whatever...) and has done so successfully since Inland Empire. I believe he is interested in TP but only as far as he is able to execute his vision of it (something he didn't get to do the first time around). So if he can't do that then he may as well stay where he is -- in complete control of his life

I also believe DL to have more integrity than ANYONE working at showtime

Wouldn't a budget include paying the actors?

Of course what the fuck does that mean

As in if David Lynch gets a bigger budget he can hire back more people from the first run? Is that greedy?