What is "Fire Walk with Me"? "Fire Walk With Me" is the movie that David Lynch did after the series wrapped up he decided to tie up some loose ends with this movie. I guess in some ways, it made us even more confused, but that's hardly his fault, the movie was severly cut.
Storyline The story is set before the events of the "Twin Peaks" TV series and chronicles the last seven days of Laura Palmer's life. It also shows Laura Palmer's grisly death scene and explores the other murders, our suspect committed. The film covers the murder of Theresa Banks and then the last week of Laura Palmer's life. One should probably watch the TV series prior to watching this movie. When the TV series was cancelled in 1991, David Lynch went to work immediately on the film saying he was not ready to leave the town and it's characters alone. This was actually planned to be the first of several TP movies, so it was chosen to do it as a prequel. The distributors marketed it as a teen slasher film with a horror tone, and so these people were dissapointed. Forced to cut the film to a "commercially viable" length, many things relevant to understanding other scenes were left out. Thus most critics, who had little or no understanding of the TP story, utterly panned the movie (although one or two did credit Sheryl Lee's performance as a plus).

Kyle MacLachlan wasn't in it a real lot as Agent Cooper. This was mainly due to the fact that the film deals with the events before Cooper's arrival in "Twin Peaks".Kyle actually backed out of the film during pre-production fearing being typecast as Agent Cooper. MacLachlan eventually agreed to participate. Both Lara Flynn Boyle and Sherilyn Fenn were both tied up to other projects when this film was getting made. Lynch decided to go ahead without them. What he did is just forget about Fenn's character, Audrey Horne, from the film altogether, and recast the part of Donna. Moira Kelly played her. Nearlry every character from the series was in the film, but after it's shredded length we didn't get to see them. David Bowie plays Philip Jeffries, whom Gordon introduces as long lost. The shooting script reveals that Jeffries has been missing for two years, but also that moments before stepping off the elevator in the Philadelphia FBI offices, he was checking into a Buenos Aires hotel. The Buenos Aires scene was cut from the film.

There was a lot missing from the film that was in the script. You can check out what was missing by clicking here The movie, in incut form is about 3:40 whilst the film we got to see was shredded to 2:14. There was a good bit in the script where Chet Desmond (Chris Isaak) and Sherrif Cable have this no-holds barred fight. Also there was this scene that had Coop going to see Sam Stanley. Lynch has special instructions for the soundtrack when the film was being showed. Lynch has always had a keen interest in the sound effects and soundtracks of his films. One need only read one of the accounts of the lengths to which he and Alan Splet went to devise and record the sound effects on "Eraserhead". It thus comes as no surprise that Lynch is listed in the FWWM credits as Sound Designer, or that he would include special instructions with the prints of the film More recently, the film U-571, had similiar instructions sent to the cinema projectionist regarding it's sound.

Who was in it Nearly everyone from the TV series was in it except a couple of people. They were Sherilyn Fenn, Lara Flynn Boyle, Everett McGill, Kimmy Robertson and a few others. Sheryl Lee's Laura Palmer was the main character as was Chris Isaak and Kiefer Sutherland's agents Harry Dean Stanton's caravan park owner, Kyle MacLachlan as Coop, The Palmers were in there, Bobby, Donna (but played by Moira Kelly) and you got to see some characters like Jaques and The Log Lady.