You’re probably thinking, “what on earth does Norma Jeane have to do with Twin Peaks?” It transpired that David Lynch and Mark Frost were originally working on a screen adaptation of the Marilyn Monroe biography ‘Goddess’. When they failed to get the rights to the book, the project they embarked upon instead, ‘Twin Peaks’, contained many elements of Marilyn Monroe’s story – particularly the fact that she is killed just before she mentions in her diary that she is going to tell the world the truth about the famous and important man she is having an affair with (Ben Horne).
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