Twin Peaks' third season is officially back on with David Lynch directing

Source: Twitter
Date:   May 15, 2015
Author: David Lynch
URL:    https://twitter.com/DAVID_LYNCH/status/599364142764404736

Dear Twitter Friends, the rumors are not what they seem ..... It is !!!
Happening again. #TwinPeaks returns on @SHO_Network

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Source: Twitter
Date:   May 15, 2015
Author: ShowTime
URL:    https://twitter.com/SHO_Network/status/599367906875600896

It's happening again!! #Showtime will be serving up some 
#damngoodcoffee! #TwinPeaks returns with @DAVID_LYNCH & @mfrost11.

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Source: Polygon
Date:   May 15, 2015
URL:    http://news.yahoo.com/twin-peaks-third-season-officially-010655089.html


Twin Peaks' third season is officially back on with David Lynch directing
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Showtime's revival of Twin Peaks is back on and moving forward with 
series co-creator David Lynch confirmed to be at the helm, the premium 
cable channel confirmed on Twitter today.

On Twitter, Showtime said that Twin Peaks is now in pre-production and 
that Lynch will direct every episode of the new season. Both Lynch and 
Twin Peaks co-creator Mark Frost also tweeted that 'the rumors are not 
what they seem,' and that the show will return for a third outing on 
television after a 25-year hiatus.

Lynch's involvement in the show came into question earlier this year 
after the director said he was leaving the project 'because not enough 
money was offered to do the script the way I felt it needed to be 
done.' Twin Peaks hadn't been canceled, Lynch said at the time, but he 
would no longer direct it and he told the show's cast as much.

The third season of Twin Peaks was announced last year, and is 
expected to air on Showtime in 2016. The show originally aired on ABC 
from 1990 to 1991. A feature film, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, was 
released in 1992.

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(c) 2015 Polygon

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Source: CNN
Date:   May 16, 2015
Author: Ben Brumfield


David Lynch back on 'Twin Peaks' reboot after salary standoff
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(CNN)-You may resume that icky tingle that was crawling up your 
spines, 'Twin Peaks' devotees. Psychokiller Bob is not back to creep 
you out yet, but he's one step closer -- because David Lynch is. After 
quitting the reboot of America's noirest of TV noir miniseries from 
the 1990s over a salary standoff, Lynch said in a tweet late Friday 
that the deal's back on, and Showtime confirmed it. Lynch is back in 
the director's chair.

Both parties unfurled allusions to the original series in their 
announcements on Twitter. 'Dear Twitter Friends, the rumors are not 
what they seem ..... It is !!! Happening again. #TwinPeaks returns on 
@SHO_Network,' Lynch tweeted.


'It is happening again'

In the series, 'It is happening again' was a warning of looming 
psychopathic carnage delivered in slow bass tones by a lanky, pale, 
spirit world character. The other phrase is a reference to the 
repeated line, 'The owls are not what they seem.' (Its creepiness 
needs no explaining). 'It's happening again!! #Showtime will be 
serving up some #damngoodcoffee! #TwinPeaks returns with @DAVID_LYNCH 
& @mfrost11,' Showtime tweeted.

The signature quote is from protagonist, FBI Agent Dale Cooper, 'This 
is, excuse me, a damn fine cup of coffee.' 'Damn good coffee' ended up 
on fan T-shirts. Cooper was played by Kyle MacLachlan, who has 
confirmed his reappearance in the reboot. But he's the only one so far.


Creepiness and love

In the original ABC series, the squeaky clean, all-American Cooper 
dispatches to the Pacific Northwest small town of Twin Peaks, a 
metaphor for American wholesomeness gone by. As he investigates the 
murder of high school beauty Laura Palmer -- whose bluish corpse 
haunts the series with necrophiliac undertones -- the logging town 
reveals its twisted underbelly.


Twin Peaks

In intimate moments, characters relive deep horror and confess longing 
in soft voices pushed by sentimental, yet ominous, musical scores.And 
beneath it all beckons a surrealistic afterlife realm. The parallel 
layers of reality and unreality, coupled with multiple characters and 
plot lines, angered and confused some viewers while hooking others who 
craved the next insane installment. Their fixes ended after Season 2.


The reboot

Showtime announced a reboot -- a Season 3 -- but recently, Lynch 
walked away, saying he felt the network was not offering enough money 
to produce the sequel in a fitting way. Lynch tweeted the bad news, 
and said he had personally called the actors to let them know he had 
backed away from directing the nine-episode comeback.

The stars teamed up for a video backing the show's co-creator with a 
#SaveTwinPeaks campaign that says doing the revival without Lynch is 
'like pies without cherries,' among other nods to the original drama 
series.

Sherilyn Fenn, Sheryl Lee, James Marshall, Peggy Lipton and other 
familiar faces from the series appear in the video. (Some members also 
set up a Facebook page.)

Showtime Network, which will air the nine-episode comeback, had hinted 
back then that the door was still open and that it would strive for a 
deal.

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(c) 2015 CNN

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Source: BBC News
Date:   May 16, 2015
URL:    http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-32763883


David Lynch rejoins Twin Peaks cult classic revival
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Film Director David Lynch has announced that he will direct the sequel 
of the cult classic Twin Peaks after a month-long deadlock over budget 
concerns. The surrealist filmmaker made the announcement on Twitter. 
The US television network Showtime said last year that the series, 
based on a small-town murder in Twin Peaks, would return as a limited 
series in 2016, 25 years after its last airing. But in April Mr Lynch 
said there was not enough money for him to take part. Writing on 
Twitter at the time, he said he had not been given enough money 'to do 
the script in the way I felt it needed to be done'. But on Friday he 
tweeted: 'Dear Twitter Friends, the rumours are not what they seem 
..... It is!!! Happening again. #TwinPeaks returns on @SHO-Network.'

Showtime president David Nevins on Friday confirmed the news: 'Totally 
worth the extra brewing time and the cup is even bigger than we 
expected,' he said in a statement. 'David will direct the whole thing 
which will total more than the originally announced nine hours. 
Preproduction starts now!!'

Correspondents say that Mr Lynch's apparent about-turn has been 
celebrated by diehard fans - and by Twin Peaks star Kyle MacLachlan, - 
who played FBI Agent Dale Cooper in the original series and is tipped 
to reprise his role.

'Welcome back again!! #TwinPeaks Special Agent Dale Cooper! on 
#Showtime #damnfinecoffee,' Mr MacLachlan tweeted.

Mr Lynch, whose credits include Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive, 
created the cult drama with Mark Frost in the early 1990s. Revolving 
around the murder of teenage schoolgirl Laura Palmer, the show was a 
precursor of dense, cinematic TV shows like The Sopranos and The Wire. 
It won three Golden Globe awards in 1991, including best TV series and 
best actor for Kyle MacLachlan.

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(c) 2015 BBC News

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Source: AFP
Date:   May 16, 2015
URL:    http://news.yahoo.com/david-lynch-twin-peaks-return-070232420.html


David Lynch to make 'Twin Peaks' return after all
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Los Angeles (AFP) - Surrealist filmmaker David Lynch announced that he 
will direct the sequel of the cult classic 'Twin Peaks' television 
series, a month after saying a pay dispute had scuttled his return. 
'Dear Twitter Friends, the rumors are not what they seem ..... It 
is!!! Happening again. #TwinPeaks returns on @SHO_Network,' he wrote 
and was retweeted more than 9,000 times in just a few hours.

The US television network Showtime announced in the fall that the 
series, based on a small-town murder in quirky Twin Peaks, would 
return as a limited series in 2016, 25 years after the show's last 
airing. But in April, Lynch told his 2.4 million Twitter followers 
that after more than a year of negotiations 'I left because not enough 
money was offered to do the script the way I felt it needed to be 
done'. His apparent about-turn was greeted with joy by diehard fans -- 
and at least one star of 'Twin Peaks'.

Kyle MacLachlan, who played FBI Agent Dale Cooper in the original 
series and is reprising his role, tweeted: 'Welcome back again!! 
#TwinPeaks Special Agent Dale Cooper! on #Showtime #damnfinecoffee.'

The two seasons of 'Twin Peaks' that aired in 1990 and 1991 were 
followed by a movie, 'Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me'.

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(c) 2015 AFP


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