the unproduced David Lynch films

Goddess (1986)

The first collaboration between David Lynch and Mark Frost in 1986.
Goddess revolved around the last few months in the life of Marilyn Monroe.

One Saliva Bubble

One Saliva Bubble was an early project of David Lynch and Mark Frost, almost a year before Northwest Passage (the TP pilot) was written. It centers around the small town of Newtonville, KS, where a secret government project goes amuck. The result is an exchange of identities of several of the townsfolk. The script is mostly a comedy, which it was rumored Martin Short and Steve Martin would star in.

Ronnie Rocket

Ronnie Rocket was a screenplay originally written by David Lynch and possibly to star Michael Anderson (The Man From Another Place in "Twin Peaks" and the Woodsman (Twin #1) in " Industrial Symphony #1"), who would have played Ronnie. This was the first film David Lynch offered CIBY 2000 as a part of his current three picture deal, but they elected to pass on it. This means David Lynch has to make two more films (" Lost Highway" being the first picture of the deal) before he can possibly do Ronnie Rocket.

More information from Ann Kroeber-Splet, the late Alan Splet's (Lynch's sound designer) wife: "Actually Ronnie Rocket was written LONG before David ever set eyes on Michael Anderson. The first RR script I read was written before "The Elephant Man" was made. He used to talk with my late husband (Alan Splet) and I , any chance he could get, about Ronnie during breaks of shooting "The Elephant Man." Ronnie Rocket was the subject that was near and dear to his heart."

"Ronnie scripts have gone through all sorts of permutations over the years. I suspect that "Ronnie Rocket" is David's most thought about story and may just never be made not because that production company didn't want to shoot it, they and several others were willing, but David wasn't."

Metamorphosis

Based on the Franz Kafka story. David Lynch was working on the screenplay to this film as far back as the early 80's. At the time, the cost of creating a believable bug (and the technology involved) pretty much put the possibility of the film on hold. However, with the modern advances in CGI, rumors say this is a likely canidate for a future David Lynch feature.

David Lynch on Metamorphosis: "It's a story that millions of people have read and about a hundred-thousand people have written about, and each one has seen it from a slighly different angle. But...it's just rich with things. But there's a certain kind of dark humor that I love about Kafka and it is his stuff that thrills me to my soul. It's just a completely perfect mood and story and characters. I like pretty nearly everything about it."

You Play the Black, and the Red Comes Up

An adaption of the story by Eric Knight.
David Lynch can be seen working on this in the doccumentary "Don't Look at Me".

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