Netflix boss pays tribute to David Lynch: 'Bold & visionary'

Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos remembers the late David Lynch in warm words as he recalls that the filmmaker pitched a limited series to them.

In a post on Instagram, the streamer’s executive shares the status of his idea, saying, “It was a David Lynch production, so filled with mystery and risks, but we wanted to go on this creative ride with this genius.”

“First Covid, then some health uncertainties lead to this project never being produced but we made it clear that as soon as he was able, we were all in,” he notes.

But on the contrary, David previously told Deadline that the streamer had rejected his pitch for an animated project, Snootworld.

“Snootworld is kind of an old fashioned story and animation today is more about surface jokes,” the Mulholland Drive director said at the time. 

“Old fashioned fairytales are considered groaners: apparently people don’t want to see them. It’s a different world now, and it’s easier to say no than to say yes.”

It’s unclear whether Snootyworld was the same project Ted revealed they agreed to work on, but Deadline suggested David might have had another project in mind for the streamer.

Regardless, he hails the late auteur calling his work “remarkable, visionary, bold and artful” and lamented that he will “always wonder about what he had in mind for us with what would have been his last project.”