Update: October 7, 2014
TWIN PEAKS Co-Creator Mark Frost Talks About the Miniseries
Mark Frost: "David [Lynch] and I stayed in touch and remained closed friends throughout all these years. It was about three years ago this summer we were having lunch at [famed Hollywood eatery] Musso & Frank, where we often used to go. And we were just kicking stuff around and we started getting some ideas in our heads about Twin Peaks. Suddenly, it felt like a place we wanted to visit again. And that was the kickoff."
"We didn't go to anybody else. Showtime was the first and only [network] we spoke to about this. There was a nice sense of continuity there, because Gary Levine, who's the right-hand man to [Showtime president] David Nevins, was our [creative] representative on the show when we were on ABC."
"It is not a remake. The story continues. The seeds of where we go were planted where we've been. Not really [a season 3], but just because my brain doesn't work that way. I've always said that Twin Peaks to me was like a novel we filmed every page of. So this is more like we found another volume of the saga, and now we want to bring that to life too."
"Those who want to see old faces, and those would like to see new faces, none of them will be disappointed. It's far too early to talk specifics about people. We're not at that stage in the process. I think there will be a lot of things that people have wanted to know over the years that if they pay close attention, they are going to be satisfied."
[On learning from past mistakes] "I think what we've learned is you've gotta have a very strong central path through the woods. It's fine to have tributaries and streams, and little byways, but ultimately, that path through the woods has to be very dark, clear and dangerous. That's the path we're going to keep to. There'll be, I hope, a healthy percentage of delightful sidelines or paths off to the side, but there aren't any shortcuts. You've gotta follow that main path."
[On the season 2 cliffhanger finale] "At the time, we were doing whatever we could to get ABC to say yes to a third season. That was very much part of our thinking. It turned out to be a pretty good stopping place, if it had never gone anywhere else, it had at least had an exclamation point at the end of it. Now we have a chance to write the next sentence."
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