- Ronnie Rocket
"Ronnie Rocket" is a film by
David Lynch .After finishing "
Eraserhead ",David Lynch spent two years writing a script for a new project entitled, "Ronnie Rocket", which was "about a three-foot tall guy with red hair and physical problems, and about 60-cycle alternating current electricity." [Mandell, Paul (October 1984). "David Lynch -- Director of 'Dune'."Starlog . p. 48.] "Ronnie Rocket" was a strange mixture of the abstractness of "Eraserhead" and Lynch's love of America in the fifties. He has described it as "an American smokestack industrial thing -- it has to do withcoal andoil andelectricity ." [Breskin, David. Inner Views: Filmmakers in Conversation. USA: Faber and Faber, 1992. p. 77.]Initially, Lynch and producer
Stuart Cornfeld had hoped to get it made withDean Stockwell ,Brad Dourif ,Jack Nance ,Dennis Hopper andHarry Dean Stanton originally starring in it back in 1987 with it being set inHoboken, New Jersey . Later onIsabella Rossellini was intended to star in the film.Various drafts of the script have languished at both
Dino De Laurentiis andFrancis Ford Coppola 's Zoetrope Studios. Lynch had a multi-picture deal with De Laurentiis that began with "Dune". After "Blue Velvet ", Lynch planned to make "Ronnie Rocket" but then De Laurentiis' company went bankrupt in1988 and this project ended up in legal limbo.Lynch has stated that he is still very much interested in making the film, but anticipates that it will not be a commercial picture, but more personal like "Eraserhead". He has already considered
Michael J. Anderson who was theMan from Another Place in the "Twin Peaks " TV show and feature film, as the man to play Ronnie Rocket.Lynch would like to approach the film much in the same fashion as "Eraserhead". "I want to have time to go into that world and live in it for a while, and that costs money. I don't really want to have a normal eleven-week shooting schedule on "Ronnie Rocket". I'd rather go with a smaller crew, and build the sets and live in them for a while." [Breskin, David. Inner Views: Filmmakers in Conversation. USA: Faber and Faber, 1992. p. 77.]
References
External links
* [http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/2093/ronniescript.html Screenplay]
* [http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/2093/ronniescript2.html Earlier draft of the screenplay]
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