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The David Lynch Projects That Never Got Made, From ‘Ronnie Rocket’ to ‘Dune Messiah’ and ‘Wisteria’
David Lynch was a groundbreaking filmmaker whose imagination ran wild with proposed movies like 'Ronnie Rocket' and 'One Saliva Bubble.'
David Lynch transformed the landscape of cinema with films like “Blue Velvet” and “Mulholland Drive,” and changed the parameters of television with “ Twin Peaks.” From one project to the next, he repeatedly merged the surreal and nightmarish with the wholesome and quaint, luxuriating in the grey areas between an idyllic portrait of smalltown Americana and the danger and mystery lurking beneath it. “Ronnie Rocket,” about a detective who tries to enter another dimension and is pursued by “Donut Men,” would have also featured Michael J. Anderson, who later played The Man From Another Place in “Twin Peaks.” When financing fell through, he moved on to “The Elephant Man.” Lynch held onto his vision for the sci-fi fantasy, telling Indiewire as recently as 2013 that it could still get made. The world goes into chaos when the Snoot hero of the story disappears into the carpet and his family can’t find him and he enters a crazy, magnificent world.” Though he revealed last year that Netflix executives turned down his “wackadoo” pitch, Lynch expressed optimism that he could still make the film, which would have marked his first feature-length animated project.
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