Re: S3: Make Your Peace Now with the Ending You Dread (SPOILERS)
Posted: Tue Jun 06, 2017 9:40 pm
My personal feeling is that there would be more Twin Peaks if Showtime indicated an interest in more Twin Peaks. As for whether or not that could happen, I have no idea whatsoever.
During any writing process, especially an extremely long, complex process such as the one that resulted in The Return, there will be many ideas which end up sidelined because there simply isn't time within what becomes the dominant narrative. In this case, that includes entire characters/actors. I suspect that Frost and Lynch already have a number of threads they'd like to follow if Twin Peaks had another season, and maybe they even have the rough idea of a primary narrative they'd like to explore. It's hard to say, but we may end up at the end of The Return without having seen (or in some cases without having even heard mention of) Harry S. Truman, Catherine Martell, Annie, Josie, Hank Jennings, Donna Hayward, Chester Desmond, or Sam Stanley, among others (like Lil!). So I don't doubt that there would be a great deal to explore, and I don't doubt that there are ideas. Because the cast has already been gathered for The Return, and because sets have been built and renovations made, I think that it would be a considerably shorter process than the work involved in creating a new 25-years-later world for Twin Peaks, where updated situations need to be created for all of its characters after a quarter century, and new, younger characters (and a lot of others) need to be created and integrated into the narrative.
Finally, there was the issue about the temporary freeze on the project when Lynch thought he wasn't getting what he needed. This was very troubling, but it ended up with us getting double the number of "parts", so it was probably worth it. Could such a delay happen again? Yes, but I'd expect the process would now be smoother owing to a greater understanding between the key players following the first fiasco.
So, I wanted to have a quick look what the most important players (on the creative side) had to say about the possibility of another installment after this one.
Mark Frost
This one will be a bit thin. When the new Twin Peaks was first announced, Mark Frost was doing most of the heavy lifting in terms of interviews. In one of the first two or three interviews that came out Frost was asked whether this would be a one time thing, or if it might continue beyond the one season. To the best of my recollection he responded that they hadn’t ruled out doing more.
I don’t have a link for the particular interview and I don’t know where it was published. It would be great if someone else happened to remember.
The rest of this stuff is very recent.
Kyle MacLachlan
Associated Press
Thursday, May 18, 2017
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/201 ... s-after-d/
When asked if the revival could give us even more than these 18 parts, Kyle said he thought chances were good. “Whether David and Mark feel compelled to write them, I don’t know. But I think he has more stories.”
David Lynch
Rolling Stone
May 17, 2017
http://www.rollingstone.com/tv/features ... ve-w482337
Do you see yourself making features for television now?
No. I don't know what will happen next, but this is an 18-hour film in my mind. And I love the idea of a continuing story. A feature is over in two-and-a-half, three hours. The stories that you tell on cable can go on and on and on. It's really beautiful.
Will there be more Twin Peaks after this?
I have no idea. It depends on how it goes over. You're going to have to wait and see.
___________
USA Today
May 17, 2017
https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/tv/ ... 101774630/
Could there be more episodes? "You never say never."
For now, he's keeping busy with another creative project: "I'm building a table."
___________
The Daily Beast
May 22, 2017
http://www.thedailybeast.com/inside-the ... avid-lynch
Lynch will co-write and direct all 18 episodes of Twin Peaks’ new season but won’t disclose whether or not his contract extends beyond the one season.
“We’ll see how it goes in the world. That’s what we’ve got to see,” utters Lynch. “All I can say, Marlow, is that I love the world of Twin Peaks and the people in it, so it would not be a hardship. But like I said, we’ll have to see what the people think.”
During any writing process, especially an extremely long, complex process such as the one that resulted in The Return, there will be many ideas which end up sidelined because there simply isn't time within what becomes the dominant narrative. In this case, that includes entire characters/actors. I suspect that Frost and Lynch already have a number of threads they'd like to follow if Twin Peaks had another season, and maybe they even have the rough idea of a primary narrative they'd like to explore. It's hard to say, but we may end up at the end of The Return without having seen (or in some cases without having even heard mention of) Harry S. Truman, Catherine Martell, Annie, Josie, Hank Jennings, Donna Hayward, Chester Desmond, or Sam Stanley, among others (like Lil!). So I don't doubt that there would be a great deal to explore, and I don't doubt that there are ideas. Because the cast has already been gathered for The Return, and because sets have been built and renovations made, I think that it would be a considerably shorter process than the work involved in creating a new 25-years-later world for Twin Peaks, where updated situations need to be created for all of its characters after a quarter century, and new, younger characters (and a lot of others) need to be created and integrated into the narrative.
Finally, there was the issue about the temporary freeze on the project when Lynch thought he wasn't getting what he needed. This was very troubling, but it ended up with us getting double the number of "parts", so it was probably worth it. Could such a delay happen again? Yes, but I'd expect the process would now be smoother owing to a greater understanding between the key players following the first fiasco.
So, I wanted to have a quick look what the most important players (on the creative side) had to say about the possibility of another installment after this one.
Mark Frost
This one will be a bit thin. When the new Twin Peaks was first announced, Mark Frost was doing most of the heavy lifting in terms of interviews. In one of the first two or three interviews that came out Frost was asked whether this would be a one time thing, or if it might continue beyond the one season. To the best of my recollection he responded that they hadn’t ruled out doing more.
I don’t have a link for the particular interview and I don’t know where it was published. It would be great if someone else happened to remember.
The rest of this stuff is very recent.
Kyle MacLachlan
Associated Press
Thursday, May 18, 2017
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/201 ... s-after-d/
When asked if the revival could give us even more than these 18 parts, Kyle said he thought chances were good. “Whether David and Mark feel compelled to write them, I don’t know. But I think he has more stories.”
David Lynch
Rolling Stone
May 17, 2017
http://www.rollingstone.com/tv/features ... ve-w482337
Do you see yourself making features for television now?
No. I don't know what will happen next, but this is an 18-hour film in my mind. And I love the idea of a continuing story. A feature is over in two-and-a-half, three hours. The stories that you tell on cable can go on and on and on. It's really beautiful.
Will there be more Twin Peaks after this?
I have no idea. It depends on how it goes over. You're going to have to wait and see.
___________
USA Today
May 17, 2017
https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/tv/ ... 101774630/
Could there be more episodes? "You never say never."
For now, he's keeping busy with another creative project: "I'm building a table."
___________
The Daily Beast
May 22, 2017
http://www.thedailybeast.com/inside-the ... avid-lynch
Lynch will co-write and direct all 18 episodes of Twin Peaks’ new season but won’t disclose whether or not his contract extends beyond the one season.
“We’ll see how it goes in the world. That’s what we’ve got to see,” utters Lynch. “All I can say, Marlow, is that I love the world of Twin Peaks and the people in it, so it would not be a hardship. But like I said, we’ll have to see what the people think.”