NEWS - Clamoroso al Cibali! Torna "Twin Peaks" (ma in realtà non se n'è mai andato!). L'occhio di Lynch (e Frost) si riapre sulla cittadina televisiva più inquietante di sempre: il countdown è fissato per il 2016, ma l'attesa (e il battage) comincia ORA
Articolo tratto da "
Variety"
“
Twin Peaks,”
the ABC series that was a forerunner of today’s offbeat serialized
cable dramas, is coming back to life with
nine new episodes to air on
Showtime in 2016.
Series creators
David Lynch and
Mark Frost
are working away on the scripts, with Lynch planning to direct all nine
episodes. The episodes are expected to bow in
early 2016, which would
coincide with the
25th anniversary of the show’s demise after two
seasons on ABC in 1990 and 1991.
The new segs will be set in the present day and continue storylines
established in the second season. Frost emphasized that the new episodes
will not be a remake or reboot but will reflect the passage of time
since viewers last checked in with key characters. As part of the deal,
Showtime will rerun episodes from the original series’ first two seasons
leading up to the 2016 premiere.
Frost would not elaborate on plot details or even the characters that
will come into play. But the story threads that will picked up were
“
baked in to the last episode,” Frost told
Variety. He called it “the next chapter of the story” and said that
the passage of 25 years will be an important element in the plot.
“For those followers of the show who felt bereft when the show ended
where it did all those years ago are going to like where it goes from
here,” Frost assured. “And we hope that a lot of people who haven’t been
to Twin Peaks yet are going to be equally interested in where the story
goes from where we left off.”
“
Twin Peaks” was ahead of its time in its unusual, often surreal
approach to telling the yarn of a murder mystery in a fictional small
town in Washington state. The show bowed with a ton of buzz —
Lynch was
red-hot as a feature helmer at the time — but it had little in the way
of a sustained audience by broadcast TV standards of the day.
The series has remained a cult favorite over the years and thus was a
ripe candidate for revival amid the general mania in the TV biz for
reinventing vintage film and TV titles.
Lynch and Frost have retained ownership of “
Twin Peaks” all these
years. CBS has distribution rights to the show through the
deficit-financing pact that Lynch/Frost Prods. set back in the day with
Aaron Spelling’s Worldvision distribution arm, which CBS now controls.
Another key connection that helped the new-model “
Twin Peaks” land at
Showtime is the pay cabler’s
Gary Levine, exec VP of original
programming, who was the ABC exec who developed and championed the show
during its original run.
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Lynch and Frost have talked about taking another run at the Twin
Peaks world over the years, but the effort got serious about three years
ago when the two had one of their semi-regular lunches at Hollywood’s
Musso and Frank Grill. It was not lost on either of them that “
Twin
Peaks” had proved to be a TV pioneer in many respects. Aspects of the
show that were seen as a handicap in the ABC days are now pillars of the
contempo generation of edgy cable and pay cable series.
“I always felt that in ‘
Twin Peaks’ we were more or less filming a
novel — drilling down to a level of detail you weren’t used to seeing in
network storytelling,” Frost said. “Over the years a lot of people have
credited us with inspiring them to think differently in how to tell
stories. Now that we’re doing (the show) again, I’m happy to come back
and get in on the action.”
Lynch and Frost didn’t shop the series around. Showtime was a natural
home because of the latitude offered by pay cable, plus the comfort
level offered by the connection with Levine.
“Showtime was the place we felt most comfortable going to after
meeting with Gary and (Showtime prexy) David Nevins and seeing their
passion for the show,” Frost said. “Gary we consider a good friend and
David I’ve known for quite a while.”
There’s no word yet about casting. In the original series,
Kyle MacLachlan played the pivotal role of the Agent Dale Cooper, the FBI agent who
comes to the small town to investigate the murder of homecoming queen
Laura Palmer.
After that mystery was solved, the show explored even more seamy
goings-on and oddball characters in the town. The pilot for the original
series was shot on location in Washington state, but subsequent
episodes were primarily lensed on stages in the San Fernando Valley. There’s no decision yet on a shooting location for the new segs.
Frost said it was still to be determined whether the revival will be a one-time limited series or an ongoing effort.
“The proof will be in the pudding. If we have a great time doing it
and everybody loves it and they decide there’s room for more, I could
see it going that way,” he said.
The original “Twin Peaks” premiered on
April 8, 1990, and had its last original telecast in June 1991. A
prequel story, “
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me,” was released as a
feature by New Line in 1992.
The TV series has endured for a new generation of fans through
periodic homevid releases and more recently, a streaming pact with
Netflix. The AFI hosted a tribute to the show in Los Angeles in July in
connection with the Blu-ray/DVD release “
Twin Peaks: The Entire
Mystery.”
Given the show’s legacy and the rabid fandom it has inspired, Frost
admitted that he and Lynch feel the pressure to make the new episodes
worthy additions to the canon.
“We can’t rest on our laurels,” he said, which is a key reason why Lynch has committed to directing all nine hours.
“This show is a kind of thanks to all of the incredibly passionate
fans we’ve had over the years that have kept the show alive and passed
it down to the next generation,” Frost said. “We’ve been lucky enough to
have one of the coolest, most intelligent, most inquisitive group of
people attracted to our show. We’re happy for them that the show is
coming back.”
In a statement issued by Showtime, Lynch and Frost quipped: “The
mysterious and special world of Twin Peaks is pulling us back. We’re
very excited.
May the forest be with you.”
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