 Having been temporarily unable to begin production on the film for some time , due to De Laurentiis owning the rights , Lynch stopped actively pursuing Ronnie Rocket as a viability in the early 1990s . However , he has never officially abandoned the project ; frequently referring to it in interviews as " hibernating " . The director has expressed interest in filming the project in the same manner as Eraserhead , using a small crew , building the sets himself and living on them during the length of the production . He has also claimed that he will revisit the film when he is at the stage in his career " when I don 't really care what happens , except that the film is finished " . 
