HBO are looking at a series based around the adventures of Doc Holliday, and more specifically the Doc presented in Mary Doria Russel's novel. Ron Howard is already attached to the project and is looking to direct the pilot. This is good news for western fans since HBO have a good record with the genre -
Deadwood, anyone.
Book Synopsis:
The year is 1878, peak of the Texas cattle trade. The place is Dodge
City, Kansas, a saloon-filled cow town jammed with liquored-up
adolescent cowboys and young Irish hookers. Violence is random and
routine, but when the burned body of a mixed-blood boy named Johnnie
Sanders is discovered, his death shocks a part-time policeman named
Wyatt Earp. And it is a matter of strangely personal importance to Doc
Holliday, the frail twenty-six-year-old dentist who has just opened an
office at No. 24, Dodge House.
Beautifully educated, born to the life of a Southern gentleman, Dr.
John Henry Holliday is given an awful choice at the age of twenty-two:
die within months in Atlanta or leave everyone and everything he loves
in the hope that the dry air and sunshine of the West will restore him
to health. Young, scared, lonely, and sick, he arrives on the rawest
edge of the Texas frontier just as an economic crash wrecks the dreams
of a nation. Soon, with few alternatives open to him, Doc Holliday is
gambling professionally; he is also living with Mária Katarina Harony, a
high-strung Hungarian whore with dazzling turquoise eyes, who can
quote Latin classics right back at him. Kate makes it her business to
find Doc the high-stakes poker games that will support them both in
high style. It is Kate who insists that the couple travel to Dodge
City, because “that’s where the money is.”
And that is where the unlikely friendship of Doc Holliday and Wyatt
Earp really begins—before Wyatt Earp is the prototype of the
square-jawed, fearless lawman; before Doc Holliday is the
quintessential frontier gambler; before the gunfight at the O.K. Corral
links their names forever in American frontier mythology—when neither
man wanted fame or deserved notoriety.
2 comments:
n order to have a great dental health its necessary to take care of the teeth. A very important part of taking care of your teeth is regularly visiting the dentist. Good dentist enjoys helping each of his patients improve their health, appearance, and self-esteem by creating the smile of their dreams, and also maintaining the health and function of their teeth, gums, and bite.
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That sounds like a really interesting book. I'm glad that our orthodontist in Kitchener isn't like this. Still, it sounds like a good read.
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