The script for Antelope Don’t Run No More could give an idea about the themes and bizarre visuals Lynch wanted to explore, but it couldn’t hope to give a concrete idea of what the final product would entail.įor a moment, though, it looked like Lynch’s script might end up getting released after all. Lynch’s works rely so heavily on eerie imagery built on specific styles of lighting, composition, and other elements that really can’t be communicated properly in a script. Plus, a screenplay for a Lynch movie can’t hope to convey all the visual accomplishments of a finished feature from this auteur. Lynch has apparently shown the script only to close confidantes, who are unlikely to spill the beans on Antelope’s various secrets on social media.

On the contrary, in many ways, there are even fewer outlets for him to get money or theatrical distribution.Īny other details about the movie are unknown, which isn’t a shock. All of this is to say that Lynch films were always struggling to get financing and those problems haven’t vanished despite his now legendary reputation in the film industry. It's impossible to imagine that happening today. Back in 1999, Disney acquired distribution rights for Lynch's The Straight Story after a rapturous Cannes Film Festival premiere. This is a problem that's only gotten worse with time as the film industry has consolidated into fewer and fewer studios and those companies turn to a strategy of relying exclusively on tentpoles. This makes it extremely difficult for Lynch to secure necessary financing and distribution for his works. Though his works are now regarded as trailblazing masterpieces, they're often initially seen as needlessly strange and subversive by studio executives yearning for easily marketable fare to put into theaters.

Titles like Blue Velvet and Wild at Heart had to be financed and distributed outside of the traditional studio system, while Inland Empire was distributed by an obscure outfit known as 518 Media (which only released one other movie in its blink-and-miss-it existence).

David Lynch movies have never been easy to finance.

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