Ronnie Rocket

Directed by

David Lynch

Country

United States

How it feels

David Lynch wrote a script about a very short man who controls electricity. It was never made into a movie despite his attempts over many years.

quirkyunresolvedwhimsicaldarkmysteriousspeculativeexperimental

What happens

Ronnie Rocket (originally spelled Ronny Rocket) is an unfinished film project written by David Lynch, who also intended to direct it. Begun after the success of his 1977 film Eraserhead, Lynch shelved Ronnie Rocket due to an inability to find financial backing for the project. Instead, he sought out an existing script on which to base his next film, settling on what would become 1980's The Elephant Man. Lynch returned to Ronnie Rocket throughout the 1980s but by the following decade had stopped considering it to be a viable prospect. Ronnie Rocket, also subtitled The Absurd Mystery of the Strange Forces of Existence, was to feature elements which have since come to be seen as Lynch's hallmarks, including industrial art direction, 1950s popular culture and physical deformity. The script featured a three-foot tall man with an affinity for and control over electricity. Lynch first met Michael J. Anderson when tentatively casting for this role and later worked with him in Twin Peaks and Mulholland Drive. Upon Lynch's death in January 2025, the project remains in development hell and its fate still left uncertain. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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