Ted Sarandos Recalls David Lynch’s Unrealized Netflix Limited Series: ‘We Were All In’

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J. Kim Murphy Ted Sarandos has joined the many others in the entertainment industry paying tribute to David Lynch, who died Thursday at 78.

Netflix co-CEO Sarandos shared a tribute on Instagram to honor one of his “all time favorite filmmakers” and noted that Lynch had been in contact with the streamer to direct a limited series.

The production went unrealized due to complications caused by the COVID pandemic and, later, “health uncertainties.” In 2024, Lynch publicly disclosed that he had been diagnosed with emphysema after a lifetime of smoking, and that any future directing would have to be done remotely. “He came into Netflix to pitch a limited series which we jumped at,” Sarandos wrote. “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.” Notably, there had been rumblings of a Netflix project from Lynch in the years before his death.