Well Meey Again in 25 Years
'I'll Run into Yous Again in 25 Years': Why Offset Is Reviving Twin Peaks
Just similar all the show's other fans, the network's executives want answers.
Twin Peaks changed tv forever, and paved the way for the innovative, risky dramas that are now a staple of premium cable networks like Offset. At present, Offset has come up with the perfect way to repay the favor: by bringing back the very show that started it all.
The network is reviving Twin Peaks, the hit 1990 ABC show about the search for the murderer of homecoming queen Laura Palmer, as a nine-episode "limited serial," airing in 2016. That will mark the 25th anniversary of its series finale, in which Palmer tells Amanuensis Dale Cooper, as both are seated in the extradimensional Red Room: "I'll come across y'all once more in 25 years." Bear witness creators David Lynch and Marker Frost will write and produce all nine episodes, with Lynch directing all of them.
"In some ways, Twin Peaks was the precursor to all of the loftier-quality, provocative serialized drama that we all do at present," Gary Levine, Outset's executive vice president of original programming, told Quartz. "So to become back to the OG of provocative, serialized drama seemed like a no-brainer. Twin Peaks always did and always will ascertain cool, and that was simply too tempting to turn abroad from."
Lynch and Frost, who began kicking ideas around for a revival three years ago, met only with Showtime about the project, in large part because Levine was the executive who adult and oversaw Twin Peaks during the evidence'southward run on ABC. The clincher, according to Frost: The famously quirky Lynch loved the artwork on the walls of Offset Networks President David Nevins. ("I love that David said the art in my office was integral to him coming to Showtime," Nevins told Quartz with a laugh. "It's my sister-in-law, she'southward the creative person!")
Twin Peaks was a full-blown pop-culture miracle in 1990, equally more than 34 1000000 viewers turned into the pilot and fell under the spell of the beginning season's exhilarant alloy of ruby-red pie, a dancing dwarf, a log lady and, of grade, "damn adept coffee." Even though the series went off the rails during its second and final season—it lost all its momentum after Laura Palmer'south murder was solved, and Lynch and Frost were focused on exterior projects—its cult following, Nevins included, has remained loyal and passionate always since.
"The prove blew me away when information technology was on," Nevins told Quartz. "Twin Peaks needed to come back. It needed answers. Information technology was never finished in the correct manner."
For Nevins, giving the show its long-overdue proper ending meant getting Lynch and Frost's commitment that they were going all-in. "You couldn't bring it dorsum unless yous got Frost and Lynch to step up and say they were going to exercise the whole thing, so that was essential," said Nevins. "It's not something that you want to attempt and do with somebody else."
In turn, the network is giving them carte du jour blanche to realize their vision. "Nosotros give our creators such freedom and such license to explore every function of their dark imaginations, and there's no one I would rather give that liberty to than David Lynch and Marking Frost," said Levine.
Of course, that freedom, which led to the wondrous highs of Twin Peaks' first season, also resulted in the train wreck that was Season Two. Levine, however, isn't worried nigh a echo of by mistakes. "I trust in David and Mark, and having 20-some odd years to reverberate on it, I think in that location'due south a lot of stories they want to tell, I remember in that location's a lot of answers they want to provide and I call back a lot of satisfaction they desire to deliver, so I have no doubt well-nigh information technology," he said.
While everyone is staying tight-lipped near the new season'southward storyline, Lynch and Frost did give First an idea of where they're headed ("They shared some things with us," said Levine). In that location are no casting announcements withal, though if Kyle MacLachlan's Twitter feed is any indication, he'll exist returning as Amanuensis Cooper.
Better burn up that percolator and find my black suit :-) #Twinpeaks
— Kyle MacLachlan (@Kyle_MacLachlan) October vi, 2014 Source: https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/10/ill-see-you-again-in-25-years-the-old-beginnings-of-the-new-twin-peaks/381174/
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