Deadwood Movie Has Great Script?

One of the manliest TV shows of the past decade, I think most will agree, was western series Deadwood. However it was kind of cut off short by HBO and didn’t finish up as well as it should have, most are going to agree with that too and it is a legit complaint.

Now that the movie is apparently going ahead, one of the show’s actors, W. Earl Brown who played Dan Dority in the original series, is reprising his role in the movie and has taken to Twitter to talk about the film’s script which he recently received. The western drama was famed for its wondrously florid writing style and Brown has gushed about the work Milch has done:

“I just read the final draft. Holy. S–t. In the course of those two hours, my emotions ricocheted in every fucking direction: exhilaration to melancholy; hoots of joy to screams of despair. The Maestro has topped himself.

As my eye scanned the page, I read the Dan Dority dialogue aloud. Milch’s words are like a scrumptious meal; the complexity of its flavours is something to savour. The structure is essentially the same as the first version I read a year and a half ago, but the complexities of the relationships, the emotional peaks and depths, are all sharpened to a razor-fine edge. It’s gut-wrenching.”

A good indicator.