When Marilyn Monroe’s Biopic Fell Through, Twin Peaks was Born
David Lynch and Mark Frost didn’t first embark together on the Twin Peaks project. The men actually started with an attempt to own the rights to the Marilyn Monroe biography “Goddess.”
Their plans fell through when they couldn’t get the rights to the book. Instead, they started working on Twin Peaks, a TV series that would contain elements of Marilyn Monroe’s story. They focused on the part of the Hollywood stars diary in which she claimed it was nearly time to tell the world about the famous men she had an affair with. Sometimes it’s just more interesting to have a Hollywood project incorporate moments from real life.
