![]() ![]() In my imagination, I always thought it would be great to approach it like a ‘Game of Thrones’ model, where you have seasons, or at least a 10-part series, or a 12-part series. But, he said, “I would lobby for three or more films, because it has that kind of potential to really open up. MacLachlan said he is “curious” about Villeneuve’s two-film approach to the material, with one opening in December and a second already shot and in the mix. If you leave out one element of the story or another, the structure tends to wobble, and you don’t get the full effect.” It’s incredibly dense, and a little bit like a house of cards. As a story, and trying to recreate that story, it’s almost impossible. I look at it as a flawed gem,” MacLachlan said. In the Frank Herbert adaptation, MacLachlan played the role of Paul Atreides - now to be assumed by Timothée Chalamet in Denis Villeneuve’s upcoming version - and doesn’t have as hard of feelings over the movie’s notorious failure, both at the box office and in the cultural imagination, as his director. No interview with Kyle MacLachlan would be complete without a detour into David Lynch country, beginning with 1984’s misbegotten “Dune,” a movie that Lynch to this day totally rejects. “He wrote these observations of people and life around him, and a lot of self-reflection but in a funny, third-person kind of way, and that was very revealing to get to the side of the man where you don’t think of an inventor as having these nonsensical flights of fancy.” He had been recently widowed and had three kids, and he was in a much more fanciful, whimsical, emotional time,” MacLachlan said. In the film, Edison is an imperious presence to be sure, and teasing of Ethan Hawke’s more neurotic and squirrely Nikola Tesla, but MacLachlan’s take turns his character into a bit of a romantic. Is a New David Lynch Film or Series on the Way? 'There Might Be Things Coming Along'īut MacLachan said he also had access to rare materials that revealed a lighter side to the brainy inventor. The longtime rivalry between these two eccentrics remains one of history’s fiercest, with their developments of AC and DC currents, respectively, sparking a bitter feud that rocked the late 19th century.Īlejandro Jodorowsky Will See Denis Villeneuve's 'Dune,' but Says 'It's Impossible' to Do It Right In “ Tesla,” Michael Almereyda’s dazzling and postmodern anti-biopic of the life and work of inventor and engineer Nikola Tesla (Ethan Hawke), MacLachlan plays Tesla’s colleague and eventual foe Thomas Edison. ![]() (Except, of course, when he’s playing Cooper’s maniac doppelgänger Mr. At 61, he has settled into playing the kinds of characters who are older and less fleet-footed than roles like Special Agent Dale Cooper in “ Twin Peaks” or even the impotent Trey MacDougal in “Sex and the City.” But he still has his very particular, good-natured charm. Kyle MacLachlan just gets better with age. ![]()
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