Bukowski loved the track so I think this post is more than apropos. A making-of featurette has arrived for the upcoming HBO drama "Luck" and let's just say it looks like "Deadwood" at the racetrack.
A what an ensemble -- creative and otherwise. "Miami Vice" creator Michael Mann directs the pilot and will produce the series along with David Milch of "NYPD Blue" and "Deadwood" fame.
The show follows a number of characters who frequent the same horse racing track and stars Dustin Hoffman as "a man in his late 60s just released from four years in prison who's autodidactic, intelligent, and deeply involved in gambling."
David Milch was quoted in Variety as saying; "The pilot is about a bunch of intersecting lives in the world of horse racing... It's a subject which has engaged and some might say has compelled me for 50 years. I find it as complicated and engaging a special world as any I've ever encountered, not only in what happens in the clubhouse and the grandstand, but also on the backside of the track, where the training is done and where they house the horses."
It will also star Nick Nolte, Kevin Dunn, Richard Kind and Dennis Farina.
The series is reportedly aiming for a launch in fall 2011.
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The side-affects of having seen "Rainman" is t at every time there is a Dustin Hoffman reference I just get stumped on Raymond.
ReplyDeleteIn my head Hoffman is Raymond. Nothing more, nothing less.
And yeah, love the blog.
Good stuff.