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Unrecorded Night

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As early as February 2020, rumors began circulating that Lynch was in the process of casting an upcoming limited series based at Netflix.[2][3] In March, a casting note resurfaced that said the new project's lead would be an "actress with dark hair in their mid to late 20s" and that the role would require "tasteful nudity".[4] In September, Lynch said in an interview that the COVID-19 pandemic had put plans for a new project on hold.[5][6] In November, via an issue of Production Weekly, it was announced that Lynch was working on a new project for Netflix under the working titles Wisteria and Unrecorded Night. He was set to write and direct 13 episodes with an $85 million budget, with Sabrina S. Sutherland listed as a producer. Also listed was a director of photography, Peter Deming. Production was set to begin in May 2021 at the Calvert Studios in Los Angeles.[7][2][3][8] Subsequently, frequent Lynch collaborators Kyle MacLachlan and Laura Dern dropped hints that a new project was in the works. On March 31, 2021, MacLachlan posted a cryptic photo of some flowers on Instagram, which he tagged #wisteria.[9] Two months later, Dern said in an interview that "fans should expect more and more radical, boundaryless art from David Lynch".[10] By September, an unknown insider announced that the project had been either abandoned or postponed, with no reason given.[11][12] In November, Deming said he was attached to the project but that it had been shut down due to the lockdowns before he could start work on it.[13][14] In April 2022, another rumor circulated that Lynch would premiere a new film at Cannes, possibly featuring Dern and Naomi Watts,[15] but Lynch quickly denied this.[16] In 2024, Sutherland confirmed that Netflix had effectively scrapped the series:

Unrecorded Night was a non-Twin Peaks series that was going to shoot at Netflix but was canceled when the pandemic hit. There's always a chance we can pick it up again [...] we were in Pre-production and close to shooting.[17][18][19]

She also said that Wisteria was a code name given by Netflix for "purposes of secrecy only", and that the show was really titled Unrecorded Night.[20] At the time of Lynch's death, Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos claimed that COVID and Lynch's "health uncertainties" delayed the project, but "we made it clear that as soon as he was able, we were all in."[21] Naomi Watts later confirmed that she and Laura Dern were ready to collaborate with the director again after meeting up with him in late November 2024:

"We had a beautiful lunch at his house. I knew he'd been unwell but he was in great spirits. He wanted to go back to work — Laura and I were like, 'You can do it! You could work from the trailer.' He was not, in any way, done. I could see the creative spirit alive in him. [...] There's a lot I could share but I want to be private about it because of his family. But it was a really powerful meeting that filled me with just so much love and hope."[22]

In June 2025, four months following/after the director's passing, Deming expounded on his involvement:

"I'd read [Unrecorded Night], and we actually went on one scout, looking at locations. [...] It's definitely its own original thing, and how it was formatted, I don't really know. [...] In fact, Twin Peaks: The Return, we weren't really sure how many episodes there were going to be until it got into post-production, because it wasn't really written that way; it was written as a 550-page film. So how that was sliced and diced really was a post-production question. Unrecorded Night was the same way. It took me three sittings to read it because it was so thick, but it was definitely not Twin Peaks."[23]

Though secretive about exact details, Deming (went) (would go) on to state that the series was "another L. A. canon" for Lynch—an original mystery blending filmmaking and Old Hollywood. He cited Lost Highway, Mulholland Drive and Inland Empire as the thematic successors for Unrecorded Night, and called it "number four in that line of products."[23]

June 2025

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    "I wish I had some news; I don't. B/c of the worldwide pandemic—I think it was just starting pre-production. I had not started work on it yet. I'm assuming it'll come back to life at some point. Idk when.""     (Tweet) – via Twitter.
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  17. ^ Cite error: The named reference Sutherland was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
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  20. ^ @fatecolossal (May 7, 2024). "David Lynch producer S. Sutherland on UNRECORDED NIGHT today: "Netflix is a wonderful company, and we have never had any problems working with them. They were/possibly are still interested in our show. COVID & the pandemic shutdown is what stalled our show - nothing else...." 🧵" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
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