Sounds like a project we can get behind.
David Lynch's son Riley Sweeney Lynch is making a movie about a runaway metalhead who is in love with someone who might or might not be a ghost. Like father, like son.
The synopsis is as follows:
Jack is a lonely metal head who lives in a small town on the edge of a deep birch forest. The townspeople fear the forest, believing it to be full of spirits. Jack dreams of a world outside this town, full of music. Nobody in the town gives a hoot about him or his dreams. He works at a bar. He is stuck.
Then Mimi appears.
No one knows where Mimi came from, including Mimi. She's searching for answers. She's on the run. She thinks Jack may be someone who can help.
Superstition and ignorance are their enemies, represented by The Big One, the enormous mayor turned eccentric spiritual gang leader and her nefarious partner, The Sheriff.
Like many of us, Jack and Mimi both want to belong. Jack wants to leave his small town home and to join a metal band, but his lack of self-confidence has rendered him inert, while Mimi desperately searches for a home she's long forgotten.
Lynch is raising funds to film a proof-of-concept short version of the film via Kickstarter. Go contribute here.
