With the news of the death of David Lynch, who has left all the followers of free talents outside the market so orphaned, tributes have followed one another. One of the most striking has come from Ted Sarandos, co-executive director of Netflix, who has given more details about David Lynch’s latest project: a lost series that had been talked about for 4 years.
In his post on networks, Ted Sarandos remembers his first contacts when Netflix was dedicated to selling DVDs. At that time, he couldn’t stand not having ‘Eraserhead’ in his catalogue, so he contacted David Lynch personally. It was around the year 2000 and David Lynch invited him to his house to see a 3-hour montage of ‘Mulholland Drive’, which had not yet been released.
Ted Sarandos says that since then he has not met much with Lynch, but that when he met with him in recent years and the director proposed a series to Netflix, they said yes to everyone: “he came to Netflix to show us a limited series that We accept immediately. “It was a David Lynch production, full of mystery and risk, but we wanted to get on this creative adventure with this great genius.”
Unfortunately, in the end it did not happen: “first Covid, and then health problems meant that this project could never be produced, but we made it very clear that as soon as he could, we wanted to develop it.”
Finally, she remembers the last time she saw him: «it was as incredible as the first. “He came to my house with my friend and his muse Laura Dern and we had a long conversation about cinema, projects, life, art and my windows (he loved my windows).” David Lynch was known for writing in secret, but unless Ted Sarandos doesn’t know it, such a series doesn’t seem like it was written down: “I’ll always wonder what he had in mind for what would have been his last project,” says Sarandos.
According to several sources over the last few years, the series was called ‘Unrecorded Night’, after having had another code name, ‘Wisteria’. There would have been 13 episodes prepared by Lynch together with director of photography Peter Deming. The series began to make headlines in 2020, but in 2024 it was published that it had been completely shelved. It had no relation to ‘Twin Peaks’.
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