Title: Milch says DEADWOOD movies still a go.
Description: (Probably.)
Michael Wells - February 11, 2007 05:57 PM (GMT)
Short interview here.Shooting may start this summer. Grain of salt and all, I suppose.
This guy really does talk quite a bit like his characters, minus the cussin', at least for the purposes of an interview like this:
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| But you know, there are certain rooms where one frequently hears the expression 'life on life's terms'... |
Bob Cashill - February 11, 2007 10:04 PM (GMT)
It's not going to be easy, what with Timothy Olyphant and Ian McShane making movies, and McShane committed to Broadway (for a revival of Harold Pinter's THE HOMECOMING) for fall I think. Milch must be up to his eyeballs in his new HBO series, too. But where there's a will...
Michael Wells - February 12, 2007 01:50 AM (GMT)
Well, will is the real question here, of course... HBO's and Milch's. I'm still not clear on how badly either one of them really wants this. HBO... not much, at least. And Milch is an enigma, on this point as on many others.
I wonder if Paramount could take this project to another cable network or even straight-to-video if HBO ends up balking on putting up the money and the airtime. Seems to me there's enough of a loyal audience to make that financially worthwhile for someone. But I don't really know what the legal intricacies would be there.
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| Milch must be up to his eyeballs in his new HBO series, too. |
The interview says Milch would do the DEADWOOD shoot this summer after season 1 of JOHN FROM CINCINNATI is finished (and before McShane goes to Broadway, I guess - interesting tidbit of news that I hadn't heard, Bob).
Bob Cashill - February 12, 2007 03:10 AM (GMT)
McShane should be excellent in THE HOMECOMING, but I would have liked to have seen him in the musical of THE WITCHES OF EASTWICK, which he did in the West End several years back. A singing and dancing Swearengen; now that would be something... :)
Vincent Pereira - February 12, 2007 04:59 AM (GMT)
Will the movie be written by J.T. LeRoy, who wrote some episodes of DEADWOOD? :)
Vincent
Michael Wells - February 12, 2007 05:11 AM (GMT)
Sheesh, don't anybody read links around these parts? :P
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| "And you know, I spent a significant portion of yesterday in collaboration with Evan Wright, who's a wonderful writer, with whom I'm doing the first of the two 'Deadwood' two-hour films."... Wright is a contributing editor at Rolling Stone and author of the book "Generation Kill" about the Iraq war. |
Oh, hang on, whoops, I only placed LeRoy's name after I wrote the above. You were making a joke! OK, I'm a little slow sometimes.
Really, J.T. LeRoy? I'd never realized that, but I never paid more than slight attention to that whole literary scandale, so I guess the name probably failed to register with me when I saw it during the credits, just as it did the first time I read your message, Vincent.