14 DAY TRIAL // Great news for “Twin Peaks” fans: Showtime had announced a new, third season for the iconic series (doubling as a reboot) for 2016, but in April 2015, all plans were canceled when series creator, writer and director David Lynch dropped out. The project is back on.
In his statement, Lynch left no room for hope on his coming back, saying he’d wanted more room and probably finances to bring his vision to the big screen, all of which network bosses weren’t willing to give to him. Showtime, on the other hand, assured fans that negotiations were still underway and that this was by no means a done deal.
David Lynch is back on
It seems that Showtime never lost hope that an understanding might be reached eventually. Lynch’s initial statement said that he’d lost hope “after 1 year and 4 months of negotiations, [and] I left because not enough money was offered to do the script the way I felt it needed to be done.”
The network urged fans not to despair because not everything was lost just yet. Even if Lynch hadn’t returned, the show would have still been made, though that would not have been the “Twin Peaks” the fans have been waiting for.
The entire cast rallied behind Lynch after the announcement, launching a “Save Twin Peaks” campaign on social media, meant to put pressure on Showtime and let them know that, without Lynch, there would be no “Twin Peaks.”
Something gave, as you can see from the tweet below, straight from Lynch’s official feed. He is back on board, and presumably the reboot is back on schedule for a 2016 release. He doesn’t say anything in this regard, but his brief exit couldn’t have derailed production too much.
A closure 25 years in the making
“Twin Peaks” ran on ABC and was canceled after just 2 seasons because ratings for the second season failed to match those for the debut season. Creators David Lynch and Mark Frost were slowly pushed out of their own show, to the point where most of the second season happened without them.
This would explain the corruption of the idea of “Twin Peaks” that was promised with the first episodes: with the final episodes, the series became more mainstream, less Lynch-like.
With the passing of time, the show became a cult one, and fans never lost hope that a third season would be made, possibly to right the wrongs of the final episodes by allowing Lynch the chance to tell the story he’d wanted to in the first place.
So when Showtime announced a third season / reboot, the fandom went wild: this was finally that moment, and it would come 25 years later, as Laura Palmer had predicted in one of the show’s most famous scenes.
After the brief maybe-cancelation caused by Lynch’s exit, fans must be breathing a sigh of relief knowing that the promise will be kept.
Dear Twitter Friends, the rumors are not what they seem ..... It is !!! Happening again. #TwinPeaks returns on @SHO_Network
— David Lynch (@DAVID_LYNCH) May 16, 2015