With apologies to Dr. Stephen T. Colbert, DFA, and via Geoff Boucher.
I think I actually had heard about this before, but I’d forgotten. Some things are simply too strange to remember. But, yes, back in the early eighties George Lucas apparently did want the director of “Eraserhead” and “The Elephant Man” and such later surrealist masterpieces as “Blue Velvet” and “Mulholland Drive” to do the third and final installment of his rather more upbeat space opera trilogy.
I respect Lynch’s creative instincts, but considering his next movie was his disastrous version of “Dune” and that “Return of the Jedi” was by far the weakest of the original trilogy, maybe it would have been better for everyone if Lynch could have ignored those headaches. It certainly would have been interesting.
Of course, it’s still the craziest f#?king thing I’ve ever heard.
