Editing Twin Peaks (section)

===Development===
In the 1980s, [[Mark Frost]] worked for three years as a writer for the television police drama ''[[Hill Street Blues]]'' (1981–1987), which featured a large cast and extended story lines.<ref name="woodward"/> Following his success with ''[[The Elephant Man (1980 film)|The Elephant Man]]'' (1980) and ''[[Blue Velvet (film)|Blue Velvet]]'' (1986), [[David Lynch]] was hired by a [[Warner Bros.]] executive to direct a film about the life of [[Marilyn Monroe]] named ''Venus Descending'', based on the best-selling book ''Goddess''. Lynch recalls being "sort of interested. I loved the idea of this woman in trouble, but I didn't know if I liked it being a real story."<ref name="rodley">{{cite book |last=Rodley |first=Chris |title=Lynch on Lynch |publisher=[[Faber and Faber]] |isbn=0-571-19548-2 |year=1997}}</ref> 

Lynch and Frost first worked together on the ''Goddess'' screenplay, and although the project was dropped by Warner Bros., they became good friends. They went on to work as writer and director for ''One Saliva Bubble'', a film with [[Steve Martin]] attached to star, but it was never made either. Lynch's agent, Tony Krantz, encouraged him to do a television show. Lynch said: "Tony I don't want to do a TV show."<ref name="Origins">{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGd6lnYTTY8 |title=David Lynch In Conversation |publisher=[[Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane|QAGOMA]] |date=June 15, 2015 |website=YouTube |time=27:30 |access-date=February 27, 2020 |archive-date=December 28, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201228024600/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGd6lnYTTY8 |url-status=live}}</ref> 

He took Lynch to Nibblers restaurant in Los Angeles and said: "You should do a show about real life in America—your vision of America the same way you demonstrated it in ''Blue Velvet''." Lynch got an "idea of a small-town thing", and though he and Frost were not keen on it, they decided to humor Krantz. Frost wanted to tell "a sort of [[Dickensian]] story about multiple lives in a contained area that could sort of go perpetually". Originally, the show was to be titled ''North Dakota'' and set in the  [[Geography of North Dakota#Great Plains|Plains region]] of [[North Dakota]].<ref name="inside twin peaks">{{cite web |url=http://welcometotwinpeaks.com/news/inside-twin-peaks-mark-frost/ |title=Inside Twin Peaks: Mark Frost Interview Live After Episode 9 Aired In 1990 (Video) |publisher=WelcomeToTwinPeaks.com |date=October 11, 2014 |access-date=October 19, 2014 |archive-date=October 19, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141019142347/http://welcometotwinpeaks.com/news/inside-twin-peaks-mark-frost/ |url-status=live}}</ref>

After Frost, Krantz, and Lynch rented a screening room in [[Beverly Hills]] and screened ''[[Peyton Place (film)|Peyton Place]]'', they decided to develop the town before its inhabitants.<ref name="woodward">{{cite news |last=Woodward |first=Richard B. |title=When ''Blue Velvet'' Meets ''Hill Street Blues'' |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=April 8, 1990 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/04/08/arts/television-when-blue-velvet-meets-hill-street-blues.html |access-date=March 10, 2010 |archive-date=November 2, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121102025251/http://www.nytimes.com/1990/04/08/arts/television-when-blue-velvet-meets-hill-street-blues.html |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="patterson">{{cite magazine |last1=Patterson |first1=Troy |last2=Jensen |first2=Jeff |title=Our Town |magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]] |date=Spring 2000 |url=http://www.twin-peaks.fr/articles/serie/ewspecial.html |access-date=January 16, 2011 |archive-date=December 26, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101226033354/http://twin-peaks.fr/articles/serie/ewspecial.html |url-status=live}}</ref> Due to the lack of forests and mountains in North Dakota, the title was changed from ''North Dakota'' to ''Northwest Passage'' (the title of the pilot episode), and the location to the [[Pacific Northwest]], specifically [[Washington (state)|Washington]].<ref name="inside twin peaks"/><ref name="patterson" /> They then drew a map and decided that there would be a lumber mill in the town.<ref name="woodward" /> Then they came up with an image of a body washing up on the shore of a lake.<ref name="woodward" /><ref name="chion">{{cite book |last=Chion |first=Michel |title=David Lynch |page=100 |publisher=[[British Film Institute]] |year=1995}}</ref> 

Lynch remembers: "We knew where everything was located and that helped us determine the prevailing atmosphere and what might happen there."<ref name="chion" /> Frost remembers that he and Lynch came up with the notion of the [[girl next door]] leading a "desperate double life" that would end in murder.<ref name="patterson" /> The idea was inspired, in part, by the unsolved 1908 murder of Hazel Irene Drew in [[Sand Lake, New York]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/hazels-brutal-murder-was-all-but-forgotten-until-she-inspired-twin-peaks/2017/05/10/b0d064a4-31dd-11e7-8674-437ddb6e813e_story.html |title=Hazel's brutal murder was all but forgotten. Until she inspired 'Twin Peaks' |first1=David |last1=Bushman |first2=Mark |last2=Givens |date=May 11, 2017 |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=May 12, 2017 |archive-date=May 12, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170512123836/https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/hazels-brutal-murder-was-all-but-forgotten-until-she-inspired-twin-peaks/2017/05/10/b0d064a4-31dd-11e7-8674-437ddb6e813e_story.html |url-status=live}}</ref>

Lynch and Frost pitched the idea to [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] during the [[1988 Writers Guild of America strike]]<ref name="fuller">{{cite news |last=Fuller |first=Graham |title=A Town Like Malice: Maverick Director David Lynch had made a bizarre soap opera for American television |work=[[The Independent]] |date=November 24, 1989}}</ref> in a ten-minute meeting with the network's drama head, Chad Hoffman, with nothing more than this image and a concept.<ref name="chion" /> According to the director, the mystery of who killed Laura Palmer was initially going to be in the foreground, but would recede gradually as viewers got to know the other townsfolk and the problems they were having.<ref name="chion" /> Lynch and Frost wanted to mix a police investigation with a soap opera.<ref name="chion" /> ABC liked the idea and asked Lynch and Frost to write a screenplay for the pilot episode. They had been talking about the project for three months and wrote the screenplay in 10 days.<ref name="woodward2">{{cite news |last=Woodward |first=Richard B. |title=A Dark Lens on America |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=January 14, 1990 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/01/14/magazine/a-dark-lens-on-america.html |access-date=March 10, 2010 |archive-date=June 4, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100604135046/http://www.nytimes.com/1990/01/14/magazine/a-dark-lens-on-america.html |url-status=live}}</ref> Frost wrote more verbal characters, like Benjamin Horne, while Lynch was responsible for Agent Cooper. According to Lynch, "He says a lot of the things I say."<ref name="woodward" />

ABC Entertainment President [[Brandon Stoddard]] ordered the two-hour pilot for a possible [[1989–90 United States network television schedule|fall 1989 series]]. He left the position in March 1989 as Lynch went into production.<ref name="jerome2">{{cite magazine |last=Jerome |first=Jim |title=The Triumph of ''Twin Peaks'' |magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]] |date=April 6, 1990 |url=http://www.thecityofabsurdity.com/twinpeaks/tparticle9.html |access-date=January 16, 2011 |archive-date=July 16, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716230129/http://www.thecityofabsurdity.com/twinpeaks/tparticle9.html |url-status=live}}</ref> They filmed the pilot for $4&nbsp;million with an agreement with ABC that they would shoot an additional "ending" to it so that it could be sold directly to video in Europe as a [[feature film]] if the TV show was not picked up.<ref name="patterson" /> ABC's [[Bob Iger]] and his creative team took over, saw the [[dailies]], and met with Frost and Lynch to get the [[Story arc|arc]] of the stories and characters.<ref name="jerome2" /> 

Although Iger liked the pilot, he had difficulty persuading the rest of the network executives. Iger suggested showing it to a more diverse, younger group, who liked it, and the executive subsequently convinced ABC to buy seven episodes at $1.1&nbsp;million apiece.<ref name="fuller" /> Some executives figured that the show would never get on the air or that it might run as a seven-hour mini-series,<ref name="Ferris">{{cite web |last=Ferris |first=Glen |title=20 Years of ''Twin Peaks'': Mark Frost Interview |work=Screenrush |date=February 26, 2010 |url=http://www.screenrush.co.uk/news/films/news-18495321/ |access-date=July 23, 2010 |archive-date=November 30, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101130132831/http://www.screenrush.co.uk/news/films/news-18495321 |url-status=live}}</ref> but Iger planned to schedule it for the spring. The final showdown occurred during a bi-coastal conference call between Iger and a room full of New York executives; Iger won, and ''Twin Peaks'' was on the air.<ref name="chion" />

Each episode took a week to shoot, and after directing the second episode, Lynch went off to complete ''[[Wild at Heart (film)|Wild at Heart]]'', while Frost wrote the remaining segments.<ref name="jerome2" /> [[Standards and Practices]] had an issue with a scene from the first season: an extreme close-up in the pilot of Cooper's hand as he slid tweezers under Laura's fingernail and removed a tiny "R". They wanted the scene to be shorter because it made them uncomfortable, but Frost and Lynch refused, and the scene remained.<ref name="jerome2" />