Twin Peaks' road to revival has not been without its obstacles. In the year since Showtime announced that the cult drama was coming back after a two-decade hiatus, co-creator David Lynch briefly pulled out due to a contract dispute, and fellow co-creator Mark Frost hinted that the limited series wouldn't be ready until 2017.
Fans may not have to wait that long, after all. Speaking at Thursday's Television Critics Association summer press tour, Showtime president David Nevins confirmed that production would get underway in just a matter of weeks. "Shooting starts in September, thankfully," he said.
There is still no confirmed news about cast additions on top of original lead Kyle MacLachlan, but Nevins said that there would soon be announcements about other favorites who would be returning to the series.
As far as timing goes, Nevins noted that it's still too soon to tell if the series indeed will be ready for 2016 and not 2017, as Frost has implied. "I want it as badly as some of the biggest fans in the world want it, so I'm hoping we make 2016," said Nevins. "It's not clear. It's ultimately going to be in their control. They're going to shoot the whole thing, and then they'll be in post [production]."
Lynch, as of now, indeed is directing every episode and is approaching it as one long movie. No exact episode count was given — Nevins described it as "open-ended" — but it will be more than the original nine episodes planned at the time of last October's order. Conflict over the number of episodes, it turns out, was the reason that Lynch publicly distanced himself from the project.
"I never had any doubts we were going to get him back.... This was a huge priority project for me," admitted Nevins. "It became clear that it was going to take more than [the] nine episodes that we originally planned for and budgeted for. We had to work out the details. I really wanted David to direct the whole thing. It's looking in great shape."
When pushed on who has made deals to return — rumored castmembers include Sherilyn Fenn and Michael Ontkean — Nevins said that not everything had been finalized but that the characters viewers expect to see on the show will make an appearance.
Nevins wrapped up Twin Peaks talk by saying that he had read all of the scripts, but he is letting the creators steer the ship themselves. "I would call them conversations, not notes," he said. "Ultimately, [Lynch] has creative control. He deserves it."
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
Debut album of the Italian project She Spread Sorrow. Ritual deathscapes, obscure Death Industrial, sinful Power Electronics from Alice K. A trip into distorted faith, repressed desires, guilt, punishment, discipline and perversion. 6-panel digipak. File next to Pharmakon, Puce Mary, Sewer Goddess.
SHE SPREAD SORROW will play UK dates later this year.
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‘Waves’ will be available via digital download from 28/8/15. It will also receive a limited 7” vinyl release of only 500 copies.
Produced by MJ from Hookworms in his Leeds studio, it combines distorted organs and synths with fuzz guitars and a driving chorus of ‘uplifting misery’.
‘Waves’ follows the bands first two singles, ‘Mouthwash’ and ‘Temptation’ which DIY dubbed a “glistening, new wave-nodding exciting debut” and XFM and Radio 1 dutifully delivered support by spinning on several occasions and with 6Music crowning the single the winner of their rebel playlist.
Lusts are brothers Andy and James Stone from Leicester evoking both the classic woozy chorus’ and reverb laden guitars of Echo and the Bunnymen and the new wave pop sensibilities of Beach Fossils.
The brothers explain the creative process behind the making of the video to Waves:
“From the start, the intention for the Waves video was to explore imagery beyond the obvious route of water, and instead focus on the lyrics and the meaning of the song.
We sat down with the directors Youth Hymns and discussed our different ideas for visually representing this.
We were inspired by Virginia Woolf’s ‘The Waves’, the visuals of oscilloscopes, and the idea of constant movement, of a force beyond your control pulling you towards something. then came their idea of the tunnel, an almost b-movie vibe, and a character falling down with us. The video has a kind of gothic, hypnotic feel, which pays homage to the aesthetics of cult sci-fi and horror. With added Jazzmasters.”
Following successful appearances across the summer at various festivals including Secret Garden Party, Lusts continue to build their live presence with further UK/EU dates across September and a full UK headline tour in November:
SEPTEMBER
Thurs 3 Sebright Arms, London
Sun 20 Incubate Festival - Tilburg, Netherlands
Fri 25 Reeperbahn Festival – Hamburg, Germany
Sat 26 Independent Night – Berlin Germany
OCTOBER – headline tour
Saturday 31 Sunflower, Birmingham
NOVEMBER – headline tour
Sunday 1 Louisiana, Bristol
Monday 2 Sound Control Bar, Manchester
Tuesday 3 King Tuts, Glasgow
Wed 4 Oporto, Leeds
Fri 6 Cookie, Leicester
Sat 7 Lennons, Southampton
Sun 8 SWN Festival, Cardiff
Mon 9 Bullingdon, Oxford
Wed 11 Green Door Store, Brighton
Sat 14 Razzmatazz, Barcelona
Mon 16 Sala Moby Dick, Madrid
Thurs 19 Trix, Antwerp
Sat 21 Paradiso Upstairs, Amsterdam
Sun 22 Blue Shell, Cologne
Tues 24 Merleyn, Nijmegen
Feral Kizzy releases their debut full-length album, Slick Little Girl.
Official music video for FEAR FACTORY's "Dielectric" from brand new, ninth studio album, GENEXUS.
