Yesterday, Variety reported that the 2022 Cannes Film Festival would feature the premiere of a brand new David Lynch feature film starring Laura Dern. The publication got the news from “two well-informed sources.” Now, in a new interview with Entertainment Weekly, Lynch has said he will not have a movie premiere at Cannes. “I have no new film coming out,” he said definitively. Lynch continued:

That’s a total rumor. So there you are. It is not happening. I don’t have a project. I have nothing at Cannes. It’s unfortunate. It got built up that people thought, “Oh, that’d be nice.” But there is something new, but it’s not mine. I don’t know whose it is. They say there’s something new at Cannes, and they don’t say whose it is, and some people thought it was my film, but it’s not. So we’ll wait and see, and see whose it is.

When asked, “Is there anything else you’re currently working on?” Lynch responded: “I’m working on painting and sculpture each day. And I’ve been working on Lost Highway color-correcting and timing.”

During the COVID-19 pandemic, David Lynch has made ample use of his time to share material through his David Lynch Theater YouTube channel. The director had hinted at a new project in a July interview with The Daily Beast, telling the outlet “there might be things coming along that would mean less time could be spent on the channel.” He’s used the platform to relaunch his daily weather report and a since-lapsed series called “What Is David Working On Today?” where he explained his handiwork on tasks around the house. He also has a series called “Today’s Number Is” where he draws a number at random from a jar.

In 2020, Lynch made available online the short films Fire (Pożar) and What Did Jack Do?. His last feature film, Inland Empire, came out in 2006.

Read the interview “David Lynch on Bowie and the Music that Inspired the New Twin Peaks” on the Pitch.