I post a good deal about the arts, & about David Lynch / Twin Peaks. (Pic: “Gray and Gold,” John Rogers Cox.)
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David Lynch's daughter Jen Lynch updates: "We plan to do a great deal to share Dads Work… For example, the script(s) for UNRECORDED NIGHT, all his notes, his doodles in the page borders… An intimate way to share what might have been his most incredible work!" [cont...]
"...and an opportunity for people to hold in their hands the material he held, and longed to film. You will see it, imagine it… And be grateful to have shared the planet with him."
(via her reddit post reddit.com/r/davidlynch/comm…)
The details on his notes & doodles are new, fwiw.
The posts on here minimizing the artistry of Lynch's writing call to mind Paul Schrader's story of being asked by De Laurentiis to rewrite Lynch's then-unfilmed BLUE VELVET script & replying it was "one of the best scripts I’d ever read... there was no way I could improve it."
DAVID LYNCH’s daughter, Jennifer, says his UNRECORDED NIGHT script, which was supposed to be his final project, will be published soon
tinyurl.com/mrxjajam
Kafka in 1924, dying, asked Max Brod to burn his uncompleted works, like The Trial. Yet Brod published them.
David Lynch, 62 yrs later: "The one artist that I feel could be my brother... is Franz Kafka.... I'd like to direct a movie of The Trial."
Uncompleted works have merit.
Note that Lynch identified *a writer* as the single person that he felt could be his artistic brother. Not someone who worked w/ visuals or sounds.
Also, the screenplay for UNRECORDED NIGHT was completed, & it's the people who knew him best that are making a publication decision.
David Lynch's producer Sabrina Sutherland has revealed that his final work, the 20-25 episode UNRECORDED NIGHT, was set to star Toby Jones, son of his longtime collaborator Freddie Jones. Lynch passed away shortly before he was set to meet w/ Netflix about resuming pre-production
First reported by Boston Hassle (see bostonhassle.com/interview-s…).
Sabrina has also said Lynch wrote NIGHT by going "through all of his old writing... he took things that had already been written and kind of combined them, while also writing new stuff" (per cinemafemme.com/2025/05/23/h…).
In new interview looking back 1yr after David Lynch's death, Sabrina Sutherland adds a bit more info about his final (unproduced) project, UNRECORDED NIGHT: he expected it to be "maybe 20-25 hours" in length, and was "very close" to trying to move forward with it when he passed.
From The Standard: standard.co.uk/culture/film/….
It was publicly known in 2020 that Lynch had copyrighted 13 "episodes" of UNRECORDED NIGHT, but this is the first indication of its expected length. 20-25 hrs exceeds the runtime of every other project solo-scripted by him, combined.
Hopefully the script will still be published one day, as Lynch's daughter Jennifer last year suggested they were looking into doing:
xitter.cf/fatecolossal/status/19…
Julien's is auctioning a script titled VOLUNTEERS it claims David Lynch wrote in '71; it's purportedly "a military satire" that "follows a group of young men who have been drafted to go to Vietnam" & engage in "various hijinks" to get out of it. I don't know if I believe them...
I don't think someone would make up something this specific. And it seems quite a coincidence if a totally different David Lynch were responsible for writing this, and it's all a big mix-up... and yet! That's what I lean towards: two David Lynches. A David doppelgänger.
Thoughts?
FWIW, they're also selling another copy of Lynch's (to-date publicly unreleased) screenplay THE DREAM OF THE BOVINE, from the estate of Harry Dean Stanton. They include a sample page of the screenplay, the first ever publicly released excerpt from it AFAIK.
Dumb wordplay galore!
Fwiw: THE LEGEND OF THE HAPPY WORKER (dir. by Twin Peaks editor Duwayne Dunham, exec produced by David Lynch, from a screenplay (by others) Lynch placed in Dunham’s hands after BLUE VELVET) is finally being released, after wrapping filming in 2018. Co-stars Amy Shiels (Candie)…
'Dracula' by Radu Jude, David Lynch-Exec Produced 'Happy Worker' Set for Locarno Lineup hollywoodreporter.com/movies…
