David Lynch took to social media to tease something for June 5.
In a cryptic post shared on X, the micro-blogging platform formerly known as Twitter, the filmmaker surprised his followers with a video announcement.
“Ladies and gentlemen, something is coming along…. for you to see and hear,” Lynch said in the video posted on Memorial Day, May 25. “And it will be coming along on June 5.”
The director’s last television series, Twin Peaks: The Return, wrapped in 2017 on Showtime.
Lynch did not indicate what he was talking about, but earlier this year, he told Deadline that he hoped to find backers for an animated project.
Lynch began working on the script for Snootworld two decades ago with former Tim Burton collaborator Caroline Thompson, who wrote projects including The Nightmare Before Christmas, Edward Scissorhands, and the 1991 film The Addams Family.
“Just recently, I thought someone might be interested in getting behind this, so I presented it to Netflix in the last few months, but they rejected it,” he told us.
Lynch said Snootworld is “kind of an old-fashioned story, and animation today is more about surface jokes. Old-fashioned fairytales are considered groaners: apparently, people don’t want to see them. It’s a different world now, and it’s easier to say no than to say yes.”
The Mulholland Drive director described “The Snoots” as “tiny creatures who have a ritual transition at age eight, at which time they get tinier, and they’re sent away for a year so they are protected.”
At the time, Lynch said he hadn’t decided whether to direct the animated project but remained open to the possibility.