 After releasing 1977 's Eraserhead , a black @-@ and @-@ white surrealist film and his début feature @-@ length production , Lynch began work on the screenplay for Ronnie Rocket . Lynch and his agent Marty Michaelson , of William Morris Endeavor , initially attempted to find financial backing for the project . They met with one film studio on the matter , with Lynch describing the film to them as being " about electricity and a three @-@ foot guy with red hair " ; the studio never got in touch again . 
