Dune director David Lynch, who is still on the lookout for a producer for his animated project Snootworld, says he is confident that the film will see the light of day.

This comes close to streaming platform Netflix "rejecting" Lynch's pitch.

In an exclusive interview to the Deadline, Lynch said the story has been in the works for the past 20 years in collaboration with Caroline Thompson, who wrote The Addams Family and Edward Scissorhands.

About the project Lynch said the story emerged while he was making drawings of Snoots. Commenting on Netflix rejecting Snootworld, he said animated films are now about surface jokes and his story is an old-fashioned fairy tale.

Writer Caroline Thompson described the story as "wacky". She further elaborating saying the Snoots are tiny creatures that undergo a ritual transition of becoming tinier once they turn eight and they are sent away for a year for protection the, and Snoot hero disappears into the carpet to enter a crazy world while his family finds it difficult to find him.

Thompson has written acts one and three, and Lynch wrote act two of the animated film.

David Lynch's last feature film was Inland Empire (2006). He hadn't returned to making films for almost two decades.