Subject: Re: Finally saw "The Movie" (European release?)
From: jblum@lucy.umd.edu (Jon Blum)
Date: 1992-02-07, 16:54
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <1992Feb6.095007.19869@ryn.mro4.dec.com> boyajian@ruby.enet.dec.com (The fox so cunning and free) writes:
> >I think you're a bit confused here. The pilot movie was originally filmed
> >as it was broadcast on TV as part of the series. The American ABC network
> >had already committed to a series, so there wasn't really a question of
> >it never getting off the ground.

I don't think so -- standard practice is for a series commitment to wait
until after the network has seen a pilot.  Besides, if that had really
been the case, and there was a series commitment, then why would they
have bothered shooting the additional scenes at all?  The Europeans would
probably have wanted to release the additional episodes of the series
as well -- more videotapes, more sales -- and they wouldn't have wanted
the quick-and-dirty wrap-up.

> >So the home video version was an after-the-fact creation, and not planned
>from the start.

How could that be?  The ending scenes were shot in Snoqualmie, with the
same crew as the pilot.  As far as I can tell, the morgue used in the
additional scenes is the location one used in the pilot, not the later
studio re-creation, and Coop's bedroom looks different from the studio
version too.  I think the ending was definitely tacked-on, but it was
tacked-on pretty early on.