‘Deadwood’ Creator David Milch to Develop HBO Projects Based on William Faulkner Works (/Film)

Did you think the dialogue in Deadwood was too dense, perhaps even impenetrable? Then close this browser and run away, fast. For everyone else, especially those who loved the conversations that were the heart of Deadwood, get ready: series creator David Milch is turning his eye to the works of William Faulkner.

Granted, Faulkner’s dialogue, in novels like As I Lay Dying and The Sound and the Fury, isn’t always as dense as his descriptive prose. (And sometimes, as in the stream of consciousness segments of The Sound and the Fury, or the points where the dialogue is the descriptive prose, it is the sort of thing that could challenge even Milch. ) Still, there is something very exciting about the idea of one of our most compellingly bookish TV producers working with stories from one of America’s signature authors. The two seem very well-suited for one another.

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