David Lynch can’t find a home for his Snoots :(

Back in the 90s, David Lynch went on Late Night with David Letterman, with an appeal to write to the chairman of ABC – the network that aired Twin Peaks – to protest the impending cancellation of the show. Now, he’s campaigning for a similarly worthy cause: to find a home for his Snoots.

“I don’t know when I started thinking about Snoots,” the Blue Velvet filmmaker says in a new interview with Deadline. “But I’d do these drawings of Snoots and then a story started to emerge.” What is a Snoot? We’re not sure. But around 20 years ago Lynch was intent enough on bringing them to the big screen that he got together with Tim Burton collaborator Caroline Thompson (The Nightmare Before Christmas, Edward Scissorhands) to pen a script, titled Snootworld.

More recently, he’s been trying to bring this animated “fairytale” project to life, quietly seeking out financiers including Netflix (which previously hosted his monkey-starring short film What Would Jack Do?). “I thought someone might be interested in getting behind this,” he explains in the interview, “so I presented it… but they rejected it.”