David Lynch announces release date for new mysterious project
In typically cryptic fashion, David Lynch has announced to the world that he has a new project coming down the pipeline, although he stopped well short of even hinting as to what it might be. This being Lynch, though, it could quite literally be anything.
It’s been a long time since the four-time Academy Award nominee worked in either film or television, with Twin Peaks: The Return‘s final episode airing in September 2017 marking the last time he was credited behind the camera on screens either big or small.
He’s been absent from the feature world entirely since Inland Empire premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2006, therefore, naturally there’s plenty of feverish speculation arising over what the maverick auteur has been working on.
Of course, Lynch is keeping his cards as close to the chest as possible, with his proclamation on social media revealing a date and nothing more. “Ladies and gentlemen, something is coming along for you to see and hear,” he intoned while wearing sunglasses indoors as he’s wont to do. “And it will be coming along on June 5.”
That’s only a week away, so it’s not as if Lynch has an entire movie or a brand new TV show locked, loaded, and ready to go. Could it be an announcement teaser of some kind regarding a new film? Possibly. Confirmation that the long-mooted new season of Twin Peaks is finally happening? Potentially.
Then again, the fact Lynch called it something people could “see and hear” broadens the scope significantly. For all anybody knows, it might be a case of the director resuming his position as the industry’s most idiosyncratic meteorologist to return to his semi-regular weather reports.
It might even be tied to the David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness-Based Education and World Peace, allowing him to further indulge his fondness for transcendental meditation with some audio-visual bells and whistles. He’s a hard man to predict, and it’s perfectly on-brand that Lynch has confirmed he’s got irons in the fire, but there’s not even an inkling of what those irons are.
He did share earlier this year that he was hoping to find new backers for his animated fairy tale Snootworld after Netflix had rejected his pitch. While Lynch was previously set to partner with the streaming service on the series Unrecorded Night before it was scrapped as a result of the pandemic.
Regardless of what it ends up being, new Lynch is always cause for celebration, with the hype train having officially pulled out of the station.
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