David Lynch Takes On The Beatles’ Guru

David Lynch is known for making unusual films, but his latest project is a bizarre choice, even for him. According to Consequence of Sound, Lynch has just announced that his next feature will center on The Beatles’ meditation guru, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. It looks like the director is ready to submerge himself in Eastern and Rock ‘n Roll culture.

The Indian native, who died last year at the age of 90, gained international fame in the 1950s for his Transcendental Meditation technique and work with numerous high-profile clients including, The Beatles. Lynch explained to reporters that his film will likely be a documentary as opposed to a narrative feature.

“I don’t think it’ll be a talking heads kind of thing, but we’re going to do a lot of interviews with people. We’ll interview — I hope — in India, a 97-year-old man who was with Maharishi from the beginning and get stories of times that weren’t so well recorded. It won’t be a so-called David Lynch film, really; it will be about Maharishi and the knowledge he brought out. It’ll hold a lot of abstractions. We’re on our way to India in December to start the India part of it.”

David Lynch is known for making unusual movies and employing a distinctively unorthodox filmmaking approach (dubbed Lynchian), so how will he hold up against East Indian culture?

Do you think this film is a good idea?