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News & ArtsWednesday, November 30, 2011
TV / Books Sound, Fury, and HBO
Posted by Jen Graves on Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 12:51 PM
David Milch, creator of Deadwood (did you watch that short-lived surfing show he made after Deadwood? Why did it feature the worst acting in the history of history?), has now announced a deal that will enable him to adapt Faulker stories for premium cable.
Which ones? We don't know yet:
...he and the estate’s executor, Lee Caplin, will work together to choose from 19 novels and 125 short stories by Faulkner that could be adapted for film or television.
Faulker medley? Faulkner season after season? Faulkner film festival? Can we at least have one where we just hear Al Swearengen read Faulkner for an hour?
UPDATE: I will be making a movie called Meet the Faulkers, yes.
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"You got him started on purpose, you fucking cocksucker, because you know I'm fucking sick, you son of a bitch."
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I tried to watch it, but lost interest quickly.
I'm waiting for the Faulker Hip Hop videos in outer space, personally.
I'm waiting for the Faulker Hip Hop videos in outer space, personally.
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I love that they made fun of Deadwood in "The Wire" which is the greatest show ever made.
"heh heh, he said cocksucker"
"heh heh, he said cocksucker"
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Adopt Faulkner for TV? Should be a piece of cake.
"I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools."
"I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools."
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That one would be perfect with Charlie Sheen. This once, of course, stars the Olsen twins...
"The two of them creating between them, out of the rag-tag and bob-ends of old tales and talking, people who perhaps had never existed at all anywhere, who, shadows, were shadows not of flesh and blood which had lived and died but shadows in turn of what were (to one of them at least, to Shreve) shades too..."
"The two of them creating between them, out of the rag-tag and bob-ends of old tales and talking, people who perhaps had never existed at all anywhere, who, shadows, were shadows not of flesh and blood which had lived and died but shadows in turn of what were (to one of them at least, to Shreve) shades too..."
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I think John From Cincinnati didn't have the best acting because they cast a lot of actual pro surfers.
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