David Lynch has departed Showtime's "Twin Peaks" revival.
In a series of tweets this evening, the eccentric writer/director announced that he was walking away from the planned sequel to the early '90s cult classic he and Mark Frost created for ABC
Sources at Showtime suggest the project remains status quo, but we'll see how long this lasts now that Lynch is no longer involved. Will Frost, Kyle MacLachlan, or anyone else want to continue without the man whose peculiar spark made the original series so memorable? You need Frost around to give some kind of narrative coherence to what Lynch does, but "Twin Peaks" without Lynch is utterly pointless.
I also have to wonder how much of this is really about the budget, and how much is Lynch getting cold feet, both about revisiting one of his most beloved projects 25 years later, and about directing every episode of the show, when he's barely directed anything in this century.
Whatever the reason, I suppose this spares us the potential of huge disappointment if the alchemy couldn't be recreated after so much time away from this universe. But whether it was good or bad, I just wanted to see them try.