{"id":47,"date":"2005-05-12T21:33:34","date_gmt":"2005-05-13T04:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/posts\/2005\/building-an-empire\/"},"modified":"2005-05-12T21:33:34","modified_gmt":"2005-05-13T04:33:34","slug":"building-an-empire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/posts\/2005\/building-an-empire\/","title":{"rendered":"Building an Empire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/jason\/files\/inland-cast.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"96\" alt=\"Harry Dean Stanton, Jeremy Irons, Laura Dern, Justin Theroux\" title=\"Harry Dean Stanton, Jeremy Irons, Laura Dern, Justin Theroux\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><br \/>\nAfter seeing <i>Mulholland Drive<\/i>, I honestly figured that it would be David Lynch&#8217;s final film. It basically synthesized aspects of all of his previous movies into one very bizzare film. I assumed that with the completion of that film, Lynch would spend most of his time and energy on his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidlynch.com\">davidlynch.com<\/a> website.<\/p>\n<p>Well, I was wrong.<\/p>\n<p>As reported today on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dugpa.com\/\">Dugpa.com<\/a>, Lynch has begun work on a new film called <i>Inland Empire<\/i>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.variety.com\"><i>Variety<\/i><\/a> has more information in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.variety.com\/index.asp?layout=cannes2005&#038;content=story&#038;articleid=VR1117922566\">Lynch invades an &#8216;Empire&#8217;: Digital pic details a mystery<\/a>, including cast information (mostly previous Lynch collaborators) and technical details (the film will be shot on digital).<\/p>\n<p>The cast includes Harry Dean Stanton (from <i>Wild at Heart<\/i>, <i>Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me<\/i>, and <i>The Straight Story<\/i>), Jeremy Irons (a first-time Lynch actor), Laura Dern (from <i>Blue Velvet<\/i> and <i>Wild at Heart<\/i>), and Justin Theroux (from <i>Mulholland Drive<\/i>).<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;ll be interesting to see how this film pans out. Apparently Lynch&#8217;s studio wants the film ready for Cannes next year.<\/p>\n<p>To be honest, I&#8217;m skeptical that this film will be as good as his other&#8217;s. Like I said, I really think that for <i>Mulholland Drive<\/i> Lynch basically exhausted his creativity, but I could be wrong. We&#8217;ll see. I&#8217;m excited either way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After seeing Mulholland Drive, I honestly figured that it would be David Lynch&#8217;s final film. It basically synthesized aspects of all of his previous movies into one very bizzare film. I assumed that with the completion of that film, Lynch would spend most of his time and energy on his davidlynch.com website. Well, I was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/posts\/2005\/building-an-empire\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Building an Empire<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}