See You Again in 25 Years
'I'll See Yous Again in 25 Years': Why Outset Is Reviving Twin Peaks
Merely like all the evidence'southward other fans, the network's executives want answers.
Twin Peaks changed television forever, and paved the way for the innovative, risky dramas that are now a staple of premium cable networks similar First. Now, Start has come up up with the perfect way to repay the favor: past bringing dorsum the very prove that started information technology all.
The network is reviving Twin Peaks, the hit 1990 ABC evidence well-nigh the search for the murderer of homecoming queen Laura Palmer, as a 9-episode "express series," airing in 2016. That will marker the 25th anniversary of its series finale, in which Palmer tells Agent Dale Cooper, every bit both are seated in the extradimensional Cherry Room: "I'll see y'all again in 25 years." Evidence 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 forerunner to all of the high-quality, provocative serialized drama that we all do now," Gary Levine, Showtime'due south executive vice president of original programming, told Quartz. "Then to get back to the OG of provocative, serialized drama seemed like a no-brainer. Twin Peaks always did and always volition define cool, and that was simply too tempting to turn away from."
Lynch and Frost, who began kick ideas effectually for a revival iii years agone, met only with Showtime about the project, in big function because Levine was the executive who developed and oversaw Twin Peaks during the testify's run on ABC. The clincher, co-ordinate to Frost: The famously quirky Lynch loved the artwork on the walls of Showtime Networks President David Nevins. ("I dear that David said the art in my office was integral to him coming to Commencement," Nevins told Quartz with a laugh. "It's my sister-in-law, she'southward the creative person!")
Twin Peaks was a full-blown pop-civilisation phenomenon in 1990, as more than than 34 million viewers turned into the pilot and vicious under the spell of the first season'south exhilarant blend of ruby-red pie, a dancing dwarf, a log lady and, of course, "damn good coffee." Even though the series went off the rails during its 2nd and final season—information technology lost all its momentum subsequently Laura Palmer's murder was solved, and Lynch and Frost were focused on exterior projects—its cult post-obit, Nevins included, has remained loyal and passionate ever since.
"The testify blew me away when it was on," Nevins told Quartz. "Twin Peaks needed to come up back. It needed answers. It was never finished in the right way."
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 you got Frost and Lynch to stride up and say they were going to practise the whole affair, then that was essential," said Nevins. "It's not something that y'all want to endeavour and practice with somebody else."
In turn, the network is giving them carte blanche to realize their vision. "Nosotros give our creators such freedom and such license to explore every role of their dark imaginations, and in that location's no one I would rather give that liberty to than David Lynch and Mark Frost," said Levine.
Of course, that freedom, which led to the wondrous highs of Twin Peaks' start season, too resulted in the train wreck that was Flavor 2. Levine, notwithstanding, isn't worried about a echo of past mistakes. "I trust in David and Mark, and having 20-some odd years to reflect on information technology, I remember there's a lot of stories they want to tell, I call back there's a lot of answers they want to provide and I think a lot of satisfaction they want to evangelize, and so I have no doubt about it," he said.
While everyone is staying tight-lipped almost the new season'southward storyline, Lynch and Frost did give Beginning an idea of where they're headed ("They shared some things with us," said Levine). There are no casting announcements yet, though if Kyle MacLachlan's Twitter feed is whatever indication, he'll be returning equally Agent Cooper.
Ameliorate burn down upwards that percolator and find my black conform :-) #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/