David Lynch held a film's rights for 35 years without directing it

What BBN said about it

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorDavid Lynch owned the rights to a play-turned-script for thirty-five years and never directed it, because he feared it was too weird.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorToo weird for the man who made Eraserhead. Far Out says the film, The Happy Worker, finally reached the screen in twenty twenty-five.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorSo the one person qualified to direct it spent thirty-five years being the wrong person.