The past year has proven exhausting — though ultimately very, very rewarding — for David Lynch fans. After a bumpy development and announcement process, Lynch's iconic Twin Peaks series is definitely making a proper return thanks to Showtime. Additionally, Twin Peaks co-creator Mark Frost is releasing a book covering the 25-year lapse between the original series and the new.
Northwest Passage, named after the original working title for Twin Peaks, adds to the current wave of Peaks resurgence via a compelling alternative to the masterful fiction of the Lynchian universe — reality. The documentary follows the journey of Travis Blue, a Snoqualmie Falls resident who inserted himself into the Laura Palmer narrative in an effort to cope with the cruelty and abuse he weathered as a gay teenager.
Director Adam Baran describes Northwest Passage as "an incredible story of life imitating art that's especially relevant today," adding that he and the other filmmakers have been interviewing Blue for the past four years. Baran, alongside executive producers Jonathan Caouette and The Ebersole Hughes Company (known for the Shining documentary Room 237), has taken to Kickstarter to finish funding the film.
