I'm a big "Deadwood" fan. Like most of my fellow fans, I've been waiting for the pair of 2 hour movies that were supposed to be forthcoming. The news I read recently made me rip off a bunch of "Al-like" curses.....
Speaking of HBO fare, “Deadwood” fans may start throwing around a few of the show’s trademark expletives. Plepler and Lombardo said that there was only a “50-50” chance that the two “Deadwood” wrap-up films that the network promised to film will get made.
David Milch, who created “Deadwood” and then moved on to the HBO series “John From Cincinnati,” is “exhausted” after shooting “John’s” first season, Plepler said.
“We haven’t had a conversation about scheduling the production of those ['Deadwood'] movies, since he’s been immersed in [‘John’]. It has always been our intention to do [the films]. It is complicated, we don’t have holds on the actors any more,” Lombardo said.
In April, an HBO representative told the Tribune that the goal was for the “Deadwood” films to begin pre-production in July, but it sounds as though that won’t happen for weeks or months, if at all.
“At the end of the summer, we will revisit this,” Lombardo said Thursday.
Asked if the films may not get made, Lombardo said, “of course that’s possible,” given the fact that most of the actors have moved on to other projects, but he added “it’s doable, it will just be daunting.”
Still, if “John” gets picked up for a second season, Milch “will have to go right back to working on that,” the executive added.
Asked if a long hiatus for “John” might allow the “Deadwood” films to get made, the HBO executives sounded hesitant, saying they found with “The Sopranos” that a long break between seasons is “probably not ideal for the viewers” and “not preferable for us.”
But there’s that 50 percent chance the “Deadwood” films will get made.
“If David’s game for this and if we can figure this out, it will happen,” Lombardo said.
