So, the venerable Matt Roush at the venerable TV Guide reported last week that amid all the news of HBO doing those shows about Washingtonian bloggers, post-Katrina musicians, and a jazz-era Atlantic City serial, there was one sad bit of news.
With David Milch now off working on his pilot
about New York police in the 1970s, “I think it’s safe to report to you
that the likelihood of the Deadwood movie happening is slim to none,” said HBO co-president Richard Plepler.
Ah, that's too bad. Except... we heard totally different this weekend.
It's just a rumor, but we heard from, you know, a friend of a friend who saw Ferris pass out at 31 Flavors last night, that they just lined up contracts for all the major players -- McShane, Olyphant, Parker, and, for the sake of iambic pentameter, we're hoping Sanderson -- to return and, if not finish, at least extend the story of the South Dakotan settlement. Of course, if true, HBO would need to rebuild the sets, as according to Al Swearingen himself, the entire town -- yeah, that slowly expanding town actually kind of existed -- was demolished last year. And of course, there's also the possiblity that our source was drunker than we thought and was feeding us total lies.
But if it's true, remember: you heard it here first!
