 Speaking of the film 's difficulty in attracting financing , Fletcher has said " I should imagine that the big money heads at whatever studio it was couldn 't get their brains round it at all . It 's fine for the artist to read and enjoy , but for accountants it was probably a very different proposition . But that 's David Lynch all over in a lot of ways " . The Guardian 's Danny Leigh has compared the script 's reputation among film fans to those of Sergei Eisenstein 's unproduced adaptation of An American Tragedy and Michael Powell 's unmade adaptation of The Tempest . Leigh recalled having read a photocopied version of the script in the early 1990s , and felt that it " might have aged far better than Wild at Heart " . Film @-@ maker Jonathan Caouette has expressed interest in reviving the project , though he believes Lynch will " do it someday " . 
