page_title: Lost Highway (film)
section_title: Development
hierarchical_section_title: Lost Highway (film) / Production / Development
caption_attribution_description: Español: Barry Gifford 10 durante la filmación del MAKING OF TALENT CAMPUS 12.3.2010© cortesía de FICG 25 MarshallPeterson
context_page_description: Lost Highway is a 1997 neo-noir film directed by David Lynch and co-written by Lynch and Barry Gifford. It stars Bill Pullman, Patricia Arquette, Balthazar Getty, and Robert Blake. The film follows a musician who begins receiving mysterious VHS tapes of him and his wife in their home, and who is suddenly convicted of murder, after which he inexplicably disappears and is replaced by a young mechanic leading a different life.
  Lost Highway was financed by the French production company Ciby 2000 and was largely shot in Los Angeles, where Lynch collaborated with frequent producer Mary Sweeney and cinematographer Peter Deming. Lynch has described the film as a "psychogenic fugue" rather than a conventionally logical story, while the film's surreal narrative structure has been likened to a Möbius strip. The film's soundtrack, which was produced by Trent Reznor, features an original score by Angelo Badalamenti and Barry Adamson, as well as contributions from artists including David Bowie, Marilyn Manson, Rammstein, Nine Inch Nails and The Smashing Pumpkins.
  Upon release, Lost Highway received mixed reviews and grossed $3.7 million in North America after a modest three-week run.
context_section_description: Lost Highway was directed by David Lynch as his first feature film since Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, which was released in 1992 as a prequel to the television series Twin Peaks. He came across the phrase "lost highway" in the book Night People by Barry Gifford. Because Lynch knew Gifford very well and had previously adapted his novel Wild at Heart into a film by the same name, he told the writer that he loved it as a title and the two agreed to write a screenplay together. Originally, both men had their own different ideas of what Lost Highway should be and ended up rejecting each other's and also their own. Lynch then told him that, during the last night of shooting Fire Walk with Me, he had a thought about videotapes and a couple in crisis. This idea would develop into the first part of the film until Fred Madison is put on death row. Lynch and Gifford then realized that a transformation had to occur and another story, which would have several links to the first one but also differ, developed. It took them one month to finish the script.
  Lost Highway was partially inspired by the O. J. Simpson murder case, which involved the arrest of a man who denied murder. The film's opening scene, where Fred Madison hears the words "Dick Laurent is dead" over his intercom, was inspired by an analogous incident that happened to Lynch at his own house. Because his house was next to actor David Lander's house and both men have the same first name, Lynch thought the stranger must have been wrong about the address. The idea of The Mystery Man "came out of a feeling of a man who, whether real or not, gave the impression that he was supernatural", Lynch explained. The film was financed by the French production company Ciby 2000. Lynch's Asymmetrical Productions, whose offices are near his house in the Hollywood Hills, was also involved in the film's production.
caption: Author Barry Gifford co-wrote the screenplay with Lynch.
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