How Eraserhead Led David Lynch To The Elephant Man’s Script

David Lynch’s sophomore film “The Elephant Man” has an origin story that’s almost as crazy as the film itself.

A period piece set in the Victorian era, the epic drama is about a man with significant facial deformity working as a sideshow attraction.

He is brutally mistreated by the world around him until a kind surgeon takes him under his wing and their friendship blossoms.

A similar dynamic emerged between director David Lynch and a huge producer that took him under his wing.After completing his surreal and unsettling first film, “Eraserhead,” Lynch set out to write a screenplay.

“After ‘Eraserhead’ I wrote a script called ‘Ronnie Rocket,’” Lynch revealed in an interview on the origins of the film (via Julius Deane).

“I worked on that script in a bedroom in my parents house,” the director confessed.

Sadly, no one was interested in funding the film.

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