David Lynch is working on a new movie...

David Lynch is working on a new movie

The trend culminated when she was cast as the virginal girl next door in Lynch's "Blue Velvet, " the first of her three collaborations with the director (a fourth project is "cooking," according to Dern, but doesn't yet have a script).

Asked whether filmgoers should expect a new feature, Lynch said: “Something is coming up. It will happen but I don’t know exactly when.”

A few months later, I reached Lynch by phone at his hotel room in Paris. Bob Roth had told me that Lynch said he was working on a new script and that it was typically dark. When I asked Lynch about this, he paused, annoyed. “Bobby’s got a big mouth,” he said. I asked him if the script was influenced by his work with T.M., and he said no, absolutely not. This will be a David Lynch picture, he said, adding, “I think people would probably recognize it.”