Re: Twin Peaks: The definitive plan to continue the series

Dr. Marc :  Thanks very much for the updates which are very exciting and promising.  Much appreciated and please keep us posted on any new developments.

Calvin

--- In [email protected], "Dr. Marc-Alexander Fluks"  wrote:
>
> Source: YahooNews
> Date:   January 8, 2013
> URL:    http://news.yahoo.com/twin-peaks-definitive-plan-continue-series-152200197.html
> 
> 
> Twin Peaks: The definitive plan to continue the series
> ------------------------------------------------------
> 
> After 22 years, rumors are flying that the beloved cult TV series 
> might finally be continued - and this is the way to do it
> 
> Last week, it was widely reported that NBC was quietly working on a 
> plan to continue David Lynch and Mark Frost's 1990-1991 cult series 
> Twin Peaks. That story turned out to be false - but it earned so much 
> buzz that NBC is actually considering doing it for real. 'I called 
> everybody when I got the email,' said NBC Entertainment President 
> Jennifer Salke at the Television Critics Association tour on Tuesday. 
> 'When it came up we all looked at each other and said, 'That's a good 
> idea.' We were all kind of like, 'Hmm, we like Twin Peaks!' So, I'll 
> send some emails today, and see what I can get to come up.'
> 
> Jennifer Salke, this is the article you've been looking for.
> 
> As a rule, I'm against the relatively recent trend of trying to 
> resurrect old, beloved TV shows. I'm perfectly happy with the Party 
> Down finale, and I think of Serenity as an entertaining but 
> unnecessary continuation of Firefly. I was - and remain - opposed to 
> the upcoming continuation of Arrested Development (though I sincerely 
> hope that Netflix proves me wrong in May.)
> 
> But there is no TV series more deserving of a resurrection than Twin 
> Peaks, and there's no better time to do it than right now. As a TV 
> critic and lifelong Twin Peaks fanatic, I've spent years putting an 
> abnormal amount of thought into continuing the series - and this is 
> how it should be done.
> 
> Before we begin, a quick refresher: Twin Peaks - which was primarily 
> about FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper's attempt to solve the murder of 
> teenager Laura Palmer, but was also about the many residents of an 
> offbeat small town in Washington, and a malevolent spirit called BOB - 
> ended unceremoniously on June 10, 1991, with a bizarre, riveting 
> finale that was less an episode and more a series of cliffhangers. 
> Audrey Horne and Pete Martell were caught in an explosion at a bank. 
> Agent Cooper was trapped in the vaguely purgatorial 'Black Lodge,' 
> while his identical doppelganger, which had been possessed by BOB, 
> went free. The only silver lining: The promise of Laura Palmer, whose 
> murder seems to have sent her to the Black Lodge, that she would see 
> Cooper 'in 25 years.'
> 
> In my dream scenario, the first episode of the new Twin Peaks would 
> air on June 10, 2016 - 25 years to the day after the series originally 
> ended. (Given the understanding that TV schedules aren't nearly as 
> cutesy as I want them to be, and my own desire to see Twin Peaks on 
> the air again as soon as possible, I say anytime over the next five 
> years is close enough.)
> 
> In the 25 years that have passed since Twin Peaks ended, BOB has used 
> Agent Cooper's doppelganger as a means to spread his influence 
> nationwide. He has deliberately botched the criminal investigations 
> Cooper was assigned to solve, allowing murderers across the country to 
> go free, and committed a series of his own murders as well - including 
> the 'Diane' Agent Cooper spoke to on his tape recorder so often, who 
> would have figured out that the imposter wasn't really Cooper. But BOB 
> knows his time is running out: The '25 years' to which Laura Palmer 
> alluded in the Season 2 finale is one of the ironclad rules of the 
> Black Lodge, and the 'Agent Cooper' doppelganger (Kyle MacLachlan) 
> will be sent back to the Black Lodge as soon as the real Agent Cooper 
> (Kyle MacLachlan, again) is freed. BOB returns to Twin Peaks as Agent 
> Cooper reemerges, chooses a new vessel, and begins committing a series 
> of a murders that eerily recall the killings in the original series - 
> positioning the real Agent Cooper as Suspect #1 in the eyes of the 
> Twin Peaks Sheriff's Department.
> 
> Agent Cooper would emerge from the purgatorial Black Lodge forever 
> changed. He'd have to be; he's just spent the past 25 years sitting in 
> an upholstered red chair, fully aware that his doppelganger is 
> unleashing anarchy upon the world and helpless to do anything about 
> it. We don't need to see Agent Cooper growling 'Does it look like I 
> give a damn?' when someone asks if he'd like his coffee black, and the 
> quirky detours into dating, whittling, and local real estate would be 
> gone. This Agent Cooper would emerge from the Black Lodge with a 
> singular purpose: Eliminate BOB and his brand of evil from the world 
> once and for all.
> 
> Of course, Cooper would need a partner: Someone who's spent the past 
> 25 years in the real world, and who could help him navigate a place 
> that has become all but unrecognizable between 1991 and 2016. So he 
> calls his staunchest ally - Sheriff Harry S. Truman - and asks him to 
> meet at the Double R Diner for a cup of coffee and a slice of cherry 
> pie. But Harry isn't the same man; in fact, he isn't even a sheriff 
> anymore. We saw Harry Truman (Michael Ontkean) hit the bottle pretty 
> hard after the death of love interest Josie Packard (Joan Chen), and 
> the bizarre events he endured in the Season 2 finale pushed him over 
> the edge for good. Shortly after 'Agent Cooper' left Twin Peaks, 
> Sheriff Truman retired from the force and took up a new gig as a 
> full-time alcoholic. By the time Twin Peaks resumes, Truman has 
> convinced himself that the strange events in Glastonberry Grove never 
> happened - and it takes the reemergence of the real Agent Cooper to 
> renew his desire to avenge Josie's death.
> 
> The alcoholic, unstable Truman was forced out of office years ago by 
> his former allies in the department, who now work under the new 
> sheriff: Bobby Briggs (Dana Ashbrook), who fulfilled his father's 
> 'vision' by marrying Shelly Johnson and 'living a life of deep harmony 
> and joy' as the man whose primary responsibility is keeping the peace 
> in Twin Peaks. Bobby would be the unlikely new hero of the new Twin 
> Peaks: Atoning for his hell-raising past - drug-dealing, an adulterous 
> affair - forgiving himself for his role in Laura's deterioration, 
> following in the footsteps of Harry in the original series, and 
> serving as both adversary and ally to Agent Cooper.
> 
> Audrey Horne (Sherilynn Fenn), Agent Cooper's admirer, never left Twin 
> Peaks. Instead, Audrey has officially taken over management of the 
> Great Northern Hotel, working under Catherine Martell (Piper Laurie) 
> after severing her relationship with her father Ben (Richard Beymer). 
> She's also permanently wheelchair-bound due to the blast in the bank 
> vault, which permanently killed her dreams of escaping the town. (As a 
> bonus, this also hearkens back to Twin Peaks' obsession with doubles, 
> recalling Donna Hayward's wheelchair-bound mother, who had an affair 
> with Audrey's father).
> 
> As for the rest of the show's sprawling cast, in brief: Annie 
> Blackburn (Heather Graham) is back in the monastery, deeply scarred 
> from her experience in the Black Lodge; the widowed Catherine Martell 
> is the town's most successful businesswoman; Shelly Briggs (Madchen 
> Amick) owns and runs the Double R Diner, which she took over when 
> Norma Jennings moved away; Donna Hayward (Lara Flynn Boyle) lives a 
> peaceful, quiet life in town; Big Ed (Everett McGill) still runs the 
> Gas Farm; and Deputies Andy Brennan (Harry Goaz) and Hawk (Michael 
> Horse) work alongside Sheriff Briggs, lending the expertise they 
> gained during the Laura Palmer murder investigation. There's a 
> widespread, unspoken understanding that no one ever mention the 
> universally-hated James (James Marshall).
> 
> A final major rule I'd insist on playing by: No recasting characters, 
> including those played by actors who have passed away since Twin Peaks 
> went off the air. (Moira Kelly's disastrous turn as Donna in 1992's 
> Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me is more than enough reason not to try.) 
> BOB (Frank Silva) can be played by a series of 'vessels' that he 
> possesses. Pete Martell (Jack Nance) died in the bank vault blast.
>   From a storytelling perspective, the biggest loss is Major Garland 
> Briggs (Don S. Davis), who seemed best-positioned to help the real 
> Agent Cooper escape the Black Lodge. But the character's inability to 
> save the real Cooper from the Lodge - right up to his own death - 
> would help to illustrate the utter futility of Cooper's situation, and 
> the malevolent brilliance of BOB's master plan, which had really been 
> about capturing Agent Cooper from the very beginning of the series.
> 
> The time has never been riper for a new Twin Peaks, which could serve 
> as the long-awaited continuation for a legion of fans and earn a host 
> of new ones by setting a bold new standard for crime dramas on 
> contemporary network television. There's no reason that most of Twin 
> Peaks' massive ensemble cast can't be reassembled today; the vast 
> majority are still working actors, and none of them rose to the 
> heights that would make a recurring role on a network series - 
> particularly one as beloved as Twin Peaks - an unappealing offer. All 
> it would take is the cooperation of series creators David Lynch and 
> Mark Frost, and a network bold enough to pick up where Twin Peaks left 
> off.
> 
> Your move, NBC.
> 
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> (c) 2013 YahooNews
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