(I posted that on page 11.)

oh the video? Sorry boo, I was out of town for so long.

Bumping the correct thread.

Kyle MacLachlan confirms he's back.

The actor surprised critics by taking the stage at the Television Critics Association’s semi-annual press tour Monday, where MacLachlan handed a “damn good cup of coffee” to Showtime president David Nevins.

“I’m very excited to return to the strange and wonderful world of Twin Peaks,” said MacLachlan, dressed in a Cooper-style dark suit. “May the forest be with you."

Series co-creator David Lynch will helm all of the nine episodes, which Showtime expects to air in 2016. Nevins wouldn’t say much about the new story other than Lynch and co-creator Mark Frost have been “very specific in promising closure, and that’s exciting.”

“From what I’ve seen, I think this going to live up to expectations—and then some,” Nevins said.

The executive said he “was kind of begging” Lynch and Frost when trying to convince them to do a reboot at Showtime. “And it felt like only way you could do it is to have David committing to directing all of them and that’s what I was begging for,” he said. “[The reboot is] something they’ve been toying with. And for David, 25 years was the magic number. There’s a reference in original, ‘I’ll see you in 25 years.'”

Nevins said Lynch seemed particular impressed by some of the Showtime executive’s “violent, weird” artwork in his office. “I think he liked that.”

Edited January 13, 201510 yr by Vee

IGN:

Nevins said that when it came to his input and notes for Twin Peaks, “I’m more or less writing checks and leaving him alone. It’s David’s show. It’s Mark’s show. I will be the grateful recipient of it."

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For now at least, Twin Peaks' return is only planned for the one season. With the original series ending with some massive cliffhangers, Nevins remarked, "I will say they have been very specific in promising closure and I think that’s exciting. From what I’ve seen – I can’t say what I’ve seen – but from what I’ve seen, I think this is going to live up to expectations and then some."

After the official session with Nevins, he was asked a couple of follow up questions, including whether Twin Peaks would film at all in Washington state, where exteriors were shot for the original. Said Nevins, “Yes, I expect them to go back to Washington. I’m really hesitant to say almost anything about it because David is so particular, but yes, I think there will be some Washington State filming. There and other places.”

As to when we’ll hear more casting, Nevins said, “I don’t know. Sooner or later, because we’re going to start shooting it within a few months. The question is what gets announced and what happens in secret.” He also noted, “I expect there to be lots of people from the original cast back.”

Edited January 13, 201510 yr by Vee

Thanks. I'm glad to hear it's going well.

I hope they paid Kyle good money to say that forest line.

I think Lynch may have said it before himself, once or twice. He is obsessed with the forest.

Bloody-Disgusting, a longtime horror and genre site, of all places, is running what they call an "exclusive" - claiming, without much support, that both Sherilyn Fenn and Sheryl Lee are "joining Kyle MacLachlan" on the new series. I'm not linking it because there's honestly nothing to be seen but their assertion.

It's not news, per se; we already knew about Lee and we were pretty confident on Fenn. But maybe this site running with it in their backwards way is an indication that the network might be on the verge of officially announcing both, a la Kyle?

Is that Kimmy Robertson's voice?

The weirdly placed eyes on Birdy are certainly Twin Peaks enough.

I think that may be her. Oh, no - the description says it's Russi Taylor.

That whole thing was terrifying, thanks!

Edited January 15, 201510 yr by Vee

From the previous UK Fest: Sheryl Lee and Dana Ashbrook on Sherilyn Fenn and confirming their returns. It seems like implicit confirmation of Fenn as well.

Michael Ontkean is looking for Sheriff Truman's jacket. Wonder why.

Michael Ontkean is looking for Sheriff Truman's jacket. Wonder why.

That's weird that he only needs it for three weeks though? Lol

An interesting detail re: the persistent stories about Audrey and Mulholland Drive that I have somehow always missed, from an interview with Brad Dukes on his incredible TP oral history, Reflections:

There was a plan to actually produce a movie between the second season and assumed third season of Twin Peaks where Audrey goes to Hollywood and is enveloped in a murder mystery. David was going to direct it and work it into the narrative of the show before it came back. We all know that idea turned into Mulholland Drive somehow, but I must say there were some really ambitious plans before the second season kicked off. That all evaporated seemingly fast.

I didn't realize it was planned in that way, and not as a spinoff. But stories vary, of course.

The weirdest Season 3 rumor I ever heard - besides the whole "planet/dimension of creamed corn/Sheriff Truman driving backwards through corn to reach MIKE and BOB's original world" thing - was Ted Raimi, who played the punk kid who Windom Earle kills and stuffs into a lifesize chess piece, claiming that the show wanted him to return for a third year as a preppy college student. Earle would escape the Lodge with evil powers, enslave Raimi's new character and imbue him with the spirit of the dead punk to use him as his familiar/henchman! What the !@#$%^&*]! I can only assume this was a kooky Harley Peyton or Bob Engels idea that got a little out of hand and I am glad that did not occur. (Along with the Audrey pregnancy by John Justice Wheeler, which a few people have claimed was a story possibility but which Sherilyn Fenn flatly refuses to acknowledge.)

Thanks for posting all this. I thought the whole thing with Earle's victims was silly stuff, but I wouldn't have minded some further exploration of it, if it had been done differently in season 3.

I hope they find the coat.

I was looking around on Youtube and found this gem from the dying years of the traditional variety show, when they all began to try to feign at acknowledging a counterculture. Andy Williams introduces the impossibly beautiful Peggy Lipton, and introduces his likely very, very confused middle-aged audience to the esoteric stream-of-consciouesness of Laura Nyro. The song is sort of a runaway train of tweeness, but Peggy gives it her all, and twirls like a champ.

Bonus of white-clad, angst-ridden background dancers which, if we squint enough and add a flannel jacket, we can headcanon as Norma and Ed.

(I kind of prefer this to Laura's to be honest, even if the arrangement is a mess)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DspN4T4NjHs

Edited January 22, 201510 yr by DRW50

Even in the promo they seem to be saying the move is a bad idea.

That is a sort of backhanded joke at the end, I laughed. It did doom them.

When the show finally moved back to its old timeslot, they ran a special Wizard of Oz-themed promo where Cooper wakes up in bed at the Great Northern surrounded by Deputy Andy, the Log Lady, Catherine Martell, and the Man From Another Place, talking about his terrible dream of the show being moved to Saturday nights. "Saturdays, that is a bad dream!" Catherine cries. You can glimpse it below around 4:05 (part of Joel Bocko's great video essay). I'm not sure if it's on the Blu-Ray box - I am only slowly making my way through its legion of extras.

ETA: Aha! The original!

Edited January 23, 201510 yr by Vee