Twin Peaks is heading back to San Diego Comic Con this year with a damn fine group of cast members in tow! This is great news because some of us are hoping for a bit of redemption after last year- I will get to that later, but first, here is all we know so far:
Here is what we know so far about Twin Peaks and SDCC 2018:
The Indigo Ballroom will be home to a Twin Peaks panel on Saturday July 21st.
16 cast members will be signing autographs in the autograph area in the Sails Pavilion Friday through Sunday from 2:30 to 7:00 all three days. Note that each actor may have their own time slot each day, so check their social media accounts as we get closer to the event.
The 16 cast members are:
Sherilyn Fenn (Audrey Horne)
Sheryl Lee (Laura Palmer)
Mädchen Amick (Shelly Briggs)
Harry Goaz (Andy Brennan)
Kimmy Robertson (Lucy Moran)
James Marshall (James Hurley)
Nicole LaLiberte (Darya)
George Griffith (Ray Monroe)
Amy Shiels (Candie)
Eric Edelstein (Detective Fusco)
Chrysta Bell (Tammy Preston)
Adele René (Cynthia Cox)
John Pirruccello (Chad Broxford)
Robert Broski and Christian Calloway (The Woodsmen)
Sabrina Sutherland (Twin Peaks Executive Producer)
San Diego ComicCon 2018.
See you there, f^ckers👊🏼💥@SherylLeeActrss @madchenamick @sherilynfenn1 @HarryGoaz @OKimmyrobertson @NicoLaLiberte @amy_shiels @ericjedelstein @Chrysta_Bell @AdeleRene @sssutherland @JohnPirruccello @robertbroski @ActingHomeless #SDCC2018 #TwinPeaks pic.twitter.com/NNF203KBgt— George Griffith (@BigLeeMarvinFan) June 18, 2018
There will be a ticketed signing at the Entertainment Earth booth Friday July 20th from 1:00 to 2:30.
As far as last year goes, Showtime brought the beloved series to SDCC in 2017 for the first time to promote and celebrate Twin Peaks: The Return. Fans were rewarded with a ticketed autograph signing at the Entertainment Earth booth, a Hall H panel and an early screening of that week’s episode of Twin Peaks: The Return that we got to watch with a handful of cast members and executive producer Sabrina Sutherland. The screening was an absolute treat and my favorite memory of SDCC 2017. The Hall H panel however was a disaster, at no fault of Showtime or anyone involved with Twin Peaks. The line management, or extreme lack thereof rather, left Hall H HALF FULL for the Twin Peaks panel while hundreds, if not thousands were left in the line outside, myself and my husband included. How could this happen? Well, there was a mass exodus of attendees from Hall H right before the Twin Peaks panel because the panel prior was for Game of Thrones (prior to that was The Walking Dead) and I guess those they just couldn’t hang. Because of a serious layout flaw, the Hall exits outside to a pathway that wraps around to the front of the convention center where attendees can go back inside to the exhibit hall or other panel rooms (you MUST exit out this way). Here’s the problem: the pathway those thousands of attendees exit onto is the same path used to get the Hall H line INSIDE.. so the line can’t move until those exiting are clear. By the time this happened, the panel had started and apparently SDCC has a policy that they don’t let anyone else into Hall H once the panel starts so that the room stays as quiet and distraction free as possible. Even though the room is half full and devoted fans are left out in a long, long line with no information (I went into full reporter mode looking for answers and staff members told me the panel hadn’t started yet and that they’d let us in…while people were live tweeting the panel from inside). It was terrible. Later that night at the episode screening, I made sure to tell as many cast members and Showtime employees I could, all of whom felt terrible for the fans and bittersweet relief because seeing a half filled room that seats over 6,000 was INCREDIBLY disheartening.
Twin Peaks is a ground breaking, powerhouse of a masterpiece and it’s talent and the fans that were there to show their love deserved better, so here’s to making SDCC 2018 the damn finest year ever!
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