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@fatecolossal
I post a good deal about the arts, & about David Lynch / Twin Peaks. (Pic: “Gray and Gold,” John Rogers Cox.)
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@fatecolossal whoa
where are you what is this i know what it is but where
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@JacquesDemyfan Leaving everything else aside I'll note that the idea Lynch didn't "incorporate[] ideas improvised on set a great deal" during the filming of ERASERHEAD is ridiculous. (Tho, throughout his filming career, "improvise" is a word he detested. It's more that he was open to rewrites.)
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@fatecolossal True but also his filming and writing style changed a lot since blue velvet. He incorporated ideas improvised on set a great deal more. Inland empire was written on cue cards right before filming a given scene. Even Bob in Twin Peaks was entirely conceived on-set.
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The posts on here minimizing the artistry of Lynch's writing call to mind Paul Schrader's story of being asked by De Laurentiis to rewrite Lynch's then-unfilmed BLUE VELVET script & replying it was "one of the best scripts I’d ever read... there was no way I could improve it."
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DAVID LYNCH’s daughter, Jennifer, says his UNRECORDED NIGHT script, which was supposed to be his final project, will be published soon tinyurl.com/mrxjajam
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Also, Lynch only read Kafka in translation; i.e., another writer’s reinterpretation of every word. Of an unfinished work, to boot.
And it still deeply affected him!
Who knows how many a published Lynch script might deeply move, even absent his sui generis audiovisual language.
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Note that Lynch identified *a writer* as the single person that he felt could be his artistic brother. Not someone who worked w/ visuals or sounds.
Also, the screenplay for UNRECORDED NIGHT was completed, & it's the people who knew him best that are making a publication decision.
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Kafka in 1924, dying, asked Max Brod to burn his uncompleted works, like The Trial. Yet Brod published them.
David Lynch, 62 yrs later: "The one artist that I feel could be my brother... is Franz Kafka.... I'd like to direct a movie of The Trial."
Uncompleted works have merit.
Dear Thommy 💘@thom_weights
You know what, I'm going to go so far as to say they SHOULDN'T do this. He's gone, it never happened, leave it be.
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@aperfectstrange The script was completed, per Sabrina. Of course, the script is 1 part of an uncompleted film, which is other people's point (& also, Lynch always made changes while filming).
The deciding q to me is whether the script has artistic merit (obvs yes), not whether it's "completed."
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@fatecolossal If UNRECORDED NIGHT was 100% completed and he was not revising it in the months before his ascension then I think the work should be published.
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@PetreRaleigh Lynch’s works need to be seen as part of an audio-visual filmmaking tradition, but they also should be seen as part of a writing tradition that engages with and builds upon ideas of abstraction, allegory, psychodrama, & other concepts, all of which start with the screenplays.
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@PetreRaleigh The answer is obviously yes! And I think it’s very dismissive of screenwriting as an artistic practice and trivializing of Lynch’s work as a writer and conceptualist to suggest it isn’t more than a curiosity absent the rest of the filmmaking process.
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Torn on this. I think it's understandable for the family to want to get this out there in whatever form they can. But it's hard to imagine anything less genuinely representative of an unfinished piece of David Lynch art than a "script"
Reel Updates@worldofreel
DAVID LYNCH’s daughter, Jennifer, says his UNRECORDED NIGHT script, which was supposed to be his final project, will be published soon tinyurl.com/mrxjajam
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Jen Lynch recently affirmed that UNRECORDED NIGHT's scripts "are likely to be published by myself and my siblings as a way to offer what could not be realized, to those who would have loved it.... we are great fans of our father’s work, and wish to see it shared and celebrated."
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First reported by Boston Hassle (see bostonhassle.com/interview-sabr…).
Sabrina has also said Lynch wrote NIGHT by going "through all of his old writing... he took things that had already been written and kind of combined them, while also writing new stuff" (per cinemafemme.com/2025/05/23/he-…).
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David Lynch's producer Sabrina Sutherland has revealed that his final work, the 20-25 episode UNRECORDED NIGHT, was set to star Toby Jones, son of his longtime collaborator Freddie Jones. Lynch passed away shortly before he was set to meet w/ Netflix about resuming pre-production
David Lynch@DAVID_LYNCH
Dear Twitter Friends, I loved, loved, loved Freddie Jones. Man-o-man will he be missed.
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Hopefully the script will still be published one day, as Lynch's daughter Jennifer last year suggested they were looking into doing:
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Jennifer Lynch says David Lynch’s children “aren’t sure anyone else can direct” his unproduced work UNRECORDED NIGHT. “We are considering offering that as a published piece, so that people can sit w/ his ideas.” She also says Kyle M, Laura Dern & Naomi Watts would have been in it
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From The Standard: standard.co.uk/culture/film/d….
It was publicly known in 2020 that Lynch had copyrighted 13 "episodes" of UNRECORDED NIGHT, but this is the first indication of its expected length. 20-25 hrs exceeds the runtime of every other project solo-scripted by him, combined.
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In new interview looking back 1yr after David Lynch's death, Sabrina Sutherland adds a bit more info about his final (unproduced) project, UNRECORDED NIGHT: he expected it to be "maybe 20-25 hours" in length, and was "very close" to trying to move forward with it when he passed.
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David Lynch was still actively preparing UNRECORDED NIGHT when he died: "It was probably the best thing he ever did...we were still writing up until the point he passed away. We were getting ready to go back to Netflix because he had reenvisioned some things..."
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I don't think someone would make up something this specific. And it seems quite a coincidence if a totally different David Lynch were responsible for writing this, and it's all a big mix-up... and yet! That's what I lean towards: two David Lynches. A David doppelgänger.
Thoughts?
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Julien's is auctioning a script titled VOLUNTEERS it claims David Lynch wrote in '71; it's purportedly "a military satire" that "follows a group of young men who have been drafted to go to Vietnam" & engage in "various hijinks" to get out of it. I don't know if I believe them...
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