Based on every convo I've ever had with anyone on TP, Lynch never, ever popped up on set while someone else was directing. I think he was content to let directors do what they want and only offer feedback after the fact.
In regard to the writers, I don't think Lynch was spending too much time with them either and mostly communicating with Frost (or Peyton later)remotely on the matter during series production. Tricia Brock specifically said Frost walked her through everything, and Jerry Stahl never mentions meeting with Lynch in his book Permanent Midnight... Although his story about Frost is worth the price of admission. FWIW, Michael Parks also said he only met Lynch one time on the way to the bathroom
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Joel, I tried and tried to pin Mark down about the shooting schedule. However, I've got to deduce that filming of Storyville didn't happen till the finale was done shooting in March of 91 because there were quite a few crew members with credits on both projects.
It's amazing how foggy the memories are of nearly EVERYONE after the murder is solved. It's like the Men in Black zapped their brains.
I was looking into this a while back and below are the notes I scribbled down, taken from a few contemporary newspaper articles.
1988 – MF in New Orleans researching Storyville (6/13 article about Chamber Chief)
11/30/89 article says doing pre-production on Storyville …Storyville originally planned for March to May 90 shooting (old Frost interview in newspaper article)
Feb 1990 -- Somehow instead MF films episode of American Chronicles instead of Storyville
4/5/91 -- David Lynch's production partner, Mark Frost , has arrived in New Orleans to direct a feature film about " Storyville ," the Crescent City's legendary turn-of-the-century red-light district which some historians consider the cradle of jazz. The movie, a long-time pet project for Frost , stars James Spader and Jason Robards; shooting is scheduled to begin in about two weeks. Further details were unavailable as we went to press, but additional information will appear as we receive it.
4/13/91 – Frost will begin filming Storyville in 10 days (4/23)
6/1/91 – Storyville scheduled to conclude filming next week
6/29 (also says he returned to LA the past weekend –6/22
Definitely wrapped by 7/5 (returned to LA the week before)
The most interesting thing in this is that Storyville was originally scheduled to shoot a year prior but something happened to bump it a year. Frost ended up doing an American Chronicles in New Orleans at that time... would shooting Storyville a year earlier have gotten Frost to stick around enough to offset some of the problem in the second season?
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Re: Deer Meadow - wow, thanks! That is absolutely fascinating. I wonder what happened.
Re: Brad - one other question; I feel 99% sure about this at this point but would like to get your opinion...is Frost definitely misremembering when he says, in the Secrets From Another Place doc, that Russ Tamblyn was one of he "fake" killers? I've never heard him say this elsewhere but I feel like a lot of people believe it because he said it on the Gold Box DVD. Given everything I've read by now I feel 100% sure that they never shot scenes of Jacoby murdering Maddy (even though Frost suggest as much in the Secrets DVD) but he wasn't in that room/told he might be the killer, was he? The fog of season two indeed...
If I had a time machine...
1) Go back and kill Hitler.
2) Save Orson Welles' cut of Magnificent Ambersons.
3) Figure out what the hell happened on season 2.
4) See the Who perform in the mid 60s-late 70s w/ Moon & Entwhistle.
2, 3, and 4 vary depending on my mood (sorry, Orson).
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LostInTheMovies wrote:Re: Deer Meadow - wow, thanks! That is absolutely fascinating. I wonder what happened.
Re: Brad - one other question; I feel 99% sure about this at this point but would like to get your opinion...is Frost definitely misremembering when he says, in the Secrets From Another Place doc, that Russ Tamblyn was one of he "fake" killers? I've never heard him say this elsewhere but I feel like a lot of people believe it because he said it on the Gold Box DVD. Given everything I've read by now I feel 100% sure that they never shot scenes of Jacoby murdering Maddy (even though Frost suggest as much in the Secrets DVD) but he wasn't in that room/told he might be the killer, was he? The fog of season two indeed...
If I had a time machine...
1) Go back and kill Hitler.
2) Save Orson Welles' cut of Magnfiemt Ambersons.
3) Figure out what hell happened on season 2.
4) See the Who perform in the mid 60s-late 70s w/ Moon & Entwhistle.
2, 3, and 4 vary depending on my mood (sorry, Orson).
I really, really doubt that happened. Russ has a pretty sharp memory and I have to imagine he would have told that story somewhere along the way. Pretty sure Ray or Richard (or a crew member) would have mentioned that as well by now.
Deer Meadow-thanks for those Storyville notes. They confirm my suspicions
No problem! The sense I get was Storyville was kind of a troubled production, either because of funding or logistics or both. That is more reading between the lines in some articles and interviews. Brad, does that jive with conversations you have had with MF?
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LostInTheMovies wrote:Re: Deer Meadow - wow, thanks! That is absolutely fascinating. I wonder what happened.
Re: Brad - one other question; I feel 99% sure about this at this point but would like to get your opinion...is Frost definitely misremembering when he says, in the Secrets From Another Place doc, that Russ Tamblyn was one of he "fake" killers? I've never heard him say this elsewhere but I feel like a lot of people believe it because he said it on the Gold Box DVD. Given everything I've read by now I feel 100% sure that they never shot scenes of Jacoby murdering Maddy (even though Frost suggest as much in the Secrets DVD) but he wasn't in that room/told he might be the killer, was he? The fog of season two indeed...
If I had a time machine...
1) Go back and kill Hitler.
2) Save Orson Welles' cut of Magnfiemt Ambersons.
3) Figure out what hell happened on season 2.
4) See the Who perform in the mid 60s-late 70s w/ Moon & Entwhistle.
2, 3, and 4 vary depending on my mood (sorry, Orson).
I really, really doubt that happened. Russ has a pretty sharp memory and I have to imagine he would have told that story somewhere along the way. Pretty sure Ray or Richard (or a crew member) would have mentioned that as well by now.
Deer Meadow-thanks for those Storyville notes. They confirm my suspicions
Thanks sparco! Happy you liked it.
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DeerMeadowRadio wrote:No problem! The sense I get was Storyville was kind of a troubled production, either because of funding or logistics or both. That is more reading between the lines in some articles and interviews. Brad, does that jive with conversations you have had with MF?
Basically. Like I said, there were quite a few crew members that worked on both TP and Storyville, so I couldn't have imagined them filming at the same time. Joel - I agree about that time machine!
