David Lynch Resurrects "Twin Peaks"
“Twin Peaks”, the influential TV show from David Lynch and Mark Frost that lasted two season in the early 90s, will return for a new season in 2016. Variety confirmed news of the revival today. Watch a short trailer below, via David Lynch’s Twitter.
The new season, set in the present day, will span nine episodes airing on Showtime. They’ll also mark the shows 25th anniversary. Lynch will direct each episode, and he and Frost are currently writing scripts. It will “not be a remake or reboot,” Frost told Variety, which noted that “the passage of 25 years will be an important element in the plot.” The original plot centered on the mystery of a beautiful dead girl, Laura Palmer, in a small, imagined Washington town.
Dear Twitter Friends… it is happening again. http://t.co/r0l9rhK4eB #damngoodcoffee
— David Lynch (@DAVID_LYNCH) October 6, 2014
The aesthetic of “Twin Peaks”, and its soundtrack (by Angelo Badalamenti with Julee Cruise) has left an indelible mark on pop music—in recent years, it has helped cultivate an eerie, dreamlike sound mixing surrealism with classic pop tropes. It has inspired artists ranging from Beach House and Cults to Dirty Beaches and Zola Jesus (who was remixed by Lynch) to, perhaps most prominently, Lana Del Rey. (Not to mention the young Chicago band that goes, simply, by Twin Peaks.)
Speaking with Variety, Frost said, “I always felt that in ‘Twin Peaks’ we were more or less filming a novel—drilling down to a level of detail you weren’t used to seeing in network storytelling.” He also called the show’s audience “one of the coolest, most intelligent, most inquisitive groups of people.”
Showtime will play “Twin Peaks” reruns leading up to the new season, and there could be further seasons, according to Frost.
David Lynch’s Eraserhead soundtrack was reissued in 2012 by Brooklyn label Sacred Bones, which also released his recent solo album, The Big Dream. This year, Sacred Bones also released The Air Is On Fire, music Lynch made for a 2007 art exhibition.
Read a Resonant Frequency column on the intersection of David Lynch with Dirty Beaches and Lana Del Rey. Also below, revisit the “Twin Peaks” theme song, Julee Cruise’s “Falling”.
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