Jennifer Lynch says the Lynch family may publish her father’s final script, Unrecorded Night.
When The Times sat down with filmmaker Jennifer Lynch a few days ago, she confirmed the family’s desire to share David Lynch’s last script. It is unlikely that the 13-episode screenplay for Netflix written in 2019 and titled Unrecorded Night (sometimes referred to under its working title Wisteria) will be directed by any of David Lynch’s children. However, they cannot simply let the project gather dust in the archives.
None of us ever tried to make his series in his place… We are considering offering that as a published piece, so that people can sit with his ideas. It would be very sad if people didn’t get to see it.”
As demonstrated by Stanley Kubrick’s Napoleon and Federico Fellini’s The Journey of G. Mastorna, we have seen how a script can evolve from a private blueprint to a public artifact, giving scholars and fans a rare, unfiltered glimpse into a filmmaker’s imagination. And I can already imagine David Lynch’s script, in particular, featuring hand-drawn storyboards and intricate sketches along with, of course, the obligatory coffee stains scattered across the pages.
Jennifer told The Times that while casting for Unrecorded Night wasn’t official yet, it was very likely to star “Kyle [MacLachlan]… and Laura [Dern], and Naomi [Watts]. He loved to play with his friends.” Maybe this was the radical and fantastic project for which Laura Dern had to go bald? What we know for certain, thanks to DP Peter Deming, is that it’s a stand-alone, 550-page Los Angeles mystery blending present-day Hollywood with echoes of its golden age—marking it as the fourth entry in David Lynch’s Los Angeles cycle, following Lost Highway, Mulholland Dr., and Inland Empire.
For now, we have to patiently wait for an official announcement, but I am certain that if the undeniably perplexing Unrecorded Night ever hits the shelves, it will be prove that great cinema can also be born on the page.
Would you be interested in reading David Lynch’s Unrecorded Night?
Fire walk with 
Hell yeah.
Absolutely! Accompanied by some damned good coffee!
I painted wisteria in cadaques, Dali’s home town and was always curious about what Lynch was gonna do with wisteria.
Not having David on this Earth is so sad to me. Not being able to see his vision one more time considering what’s been said and who would have been involved is heartbreaking. A Script would be nice and help lessen the impact of never knowing what the project was to be.