David Lynch is returning to the town of Twin Peaks this month, having directed all eighteen episodes of Showtime’s revival of his cult 90s series, but if you were hoping he might follow this up by getting back behind the camera for another feature film, we have some bad news for you
Asked by The Sydney Morning Herald whether 2006’s Inland Empire will prove to be his last film, Lynch responded:
“Yes it is. Things changed a lot. So many films were not doing well at the box office even though they might have been great films and the things that were doing well at the box office weren’t the things that I would want to do.”
UPDATE: It seems that Lynch has not called time on features after all, with the filmmaker revealing at the Cannes premiere of Twin Peaks that: “My remarks have been misrepresented. I did not say I quit cinema. Simply that nobody knows what the future holds.”
Originally published May 26, 2017. Updated April 16, 2018.
