Subject: Newspaper Article on THE MOVIE!!!
From: jfr@tellabs.com (John Ryder)
Date: 1991-08-19, 10:46
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

Ok, folks, here's the latest on the movie from the Chicago Sun Times (8/19)
(courtesy of the LA Times). This article is copied without permission,
so please don't tell on me :-).

"Peaks" project on the ascent

By Elaine Dutka (Los Angeles Times)

Director David Lynch's on-again, off-again feature film version of his cult
TV series "Twin Peaks" is, well...on again. Kyle MacLachlan, who played the
series' central character, FBI Agent Dale Cooper, has dropped his reservations
about the project and the movie is scheduled to start shooting in September.

The project, tentatively titled "Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me", will feature
all the regulars with the exception of Lara Flynn Boyle (MacLachlan's real-life
love interest, who played the slain Laura Palmer's best friend on the show),
and Sherilyn Fenn (another high school friend of Palmer's). Both actresses
reportedly had to bow out because of scheduling conflicts.

"Rather than negotiate for a later date, we decided to go on without them,"
says Gaye Pope, unit publicist for Lynch-Frost, the director's production
company. "We might have even gone on without Kyle, rewriting the script,
but his decision to do this makes a great deal of difference. We're hoping
that those fans loyal to the show [which has been canceled by ABC] will
come to the theaters. Our thought is that there's a built-in market out
there."

Lynch will be directing the movie as the first in a three-picture deal with
CIBY 2000, a French company.

First, however, is the re-release of Lynch's first feature, 1978's "Eraserhead",
by Miramax Films in late October. Described by the company as an "eerily erotic
sci-fi parable of the responsibilities of parenthood," the movie focuses on
a man whose hair stands permenantly on end in the shape of an eraser. After
impregnating his girfriend, he is forced to marry her and becomes the father
of a strange inhuman creature.

Why dredge up "Eraserhead" now? "There's a lot of interest in David Lynch,"
says Russell Schwartz, executive vice-president of Miramax. "And we think
it would be fun taking a cult classic which for years played only at
midnight shows and turning it into a mainstream picture."

Lynch's camp agrees. "Those people who are familiar with David are more in
touch with `Blue Velvet' and `Wild At Heart' than his earlier work," Gaye
Pope says. "Bringing `Eraserhead' out again for a whole new audience who've
never seen it before is a great idea."

Industry observers say that it makes good commercial sense, as well. And not
only because Lynch is a brand name these days or that, in an era of belt-
tightening, re-release is a way of sidestepping an expensive production
budget.

"It feeds the public's hunger for `hip'", one notes, "which right now, is
coming primarily from the black filmmakers. Gus Van Sant, the Coen Brothers,
Jim Jarmusch and David Lynch contribute their one film a year, but anything
out of the mainstream is an increasingly rare commodity in an industry
that feeds on junk food."



John Ryder - Tellabs Inc.