 Lynch also met Stuart Cornfeld during this time . Cornfeld had enjoyed Eraserhead and was interested in producing Ronnie Rocket ; Cornfeld was working for Mel Brooks and Brooksfilms at the time , and when the two realized that Ronnie Rocket was unlikely to find sufficient financing to be produced , Lynch asked to see some already @-@ written scripts to work from for his next film instead . Cornfeld found four scripts he felt Lynch would be interested in , but on hearing the name of the first , the director decided his next project would be The Elephant Man . 
