Lynch spent time in Wilmington in the mid 1980s, when the director made one of his best-known and most notorious films.

One of Hollywood’s worst weeks in just got worse. David Lynch, the four-time Oscar-nominated filmmaker behind Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive, Eraserhead, Wild at Heart, The Elephant Man and others who also created the Showtime drama Twin Peaks,

This poignant drama, based on the true story of Joseph Merrick (renamed John in the film), stars John Hurt as a disfigured man navigating life in Victorian England with the help of a compassionate doctor (Anthony Hopkins). It was nominated for eight Academy Awards.