David Lynch took to social media to tease one thing for June 5.
In a cryptic publish shared on X, the micro-blogging platform previously often known as Twitter, the filmmaker stunned his followers with a video announcement.
“Girls and gents, one thing is coming alongside…. so that you can see and listen to,” Lynch mentioned within the video posted on Memorial Day, Might 25. “And will probably be coming alongside on June 5.”
The director’s final tv collection, Twin Peaks: The Return, wrapped in 2017 on Showtime.
Lynch didn’t point out what he was speaking about, however earlier this yr, he informed Deadline that he hoped to seek out backers for an animated challenge.
Lynch started engaged on the script for Snootworld twenty years in the past with former Tim Burton collaborator Caroline Thompson, who wrote tasks together with The Nightmare Earlier than Christmas, Edward Scissorhands, and the 1991 movie The Addams Household.
“Only recently, I believed somebody may be curious about getting behind this, so I introduced it to Netflix in the previous couple of months, however they rejected it,” he informed us.
Lynch mentioned Snootworld is “sort of an old style story, and animation as we speak is extra about floor jokes. Old style fairytales are thought-about groaners: apparently, individuals don’t need to see them. It’s a special world now, and it’s simpler to say no than to say sure.”
The Mulholland Drive director described “The Snoots” as “tiny creatures who’ve a ritual transition at age eight, at which era they get tinier, they usually’re despatched away for a yr so they’re protected.”
On the time, Lynch mentioned he hadn’t determined whether or not to direct the animated challenge however remained open to the chance.
