The central government was able to consolidate control over nearly the entire eastern seaboard, bringing all 13 colonies under one frayed banner. It’s a story of how a boomtown for the many succumbed to the wills of the few, a story of how a community came to be and how, in time, it came undone.īy the early 19th century, the United States, the country to which Deadwood would eventually belong, was beginning to look less like a patchwork of discomposed communities and more like a coherent nation. And the story of Deadwood, the mining camp in South Dakota where there existed no legal authority other than the one it made for itself, is perhaps the best example of how people can fail in a place where they shouldn’t, and how in their failure they can forfeit the community they built. The answers to these questions, no matter where they’re asked, form a story. What happens, then, when they choose wrong? Geographic forces and features inform the decisions of those who are endowed with the responsibility to make them, but those same forces and features can’t dictate what the decisions will be. Geography is fixed, more or less, but people are mutable, even mercurial. Not in their capacity to subjugate the lands they live on but in their competence to sustain the communities they build. Geopolitics may be the study of people in place, but what is so often ignored in the arrangement, but is just as often true, is the power of people. We just don’t know when it will happen.If you could create a community from scratch, knowing all that you know of what the land had to offer, understanding everything you understand about human nature, what would it look like? How would you create laws and rights in a place that has neither? How would you transact business? How would you instill in the community the value of the institutions that purport to serve it?Īnd if you decided to build these institutions, how would you maintain and promote them? To what extent would you rely on brute force as a necessary adjunct to their creation? Would you consider other means? Would the short-term benefits of your tactics outweigh the costs to your strategic interests? And it’s a network that usually gets what it wants. Some of the former cast have expressed a willingness to revisit their Deadwood roles, but the schedule allow will be a challenge to bring them all together.īut the important takeaway is that HBO wants more Deadwood. The other potential fly in the ointment will be reuniting Deadwood’s brilliant cast, which included Ian McShane, Timothy Olyphant, Molly Parker, Kim Dickens, Anna Gunn, and Paula Malcomson among others. No one is quite sure how long that will take. The bad news is that Milch is currently tied to another project and unable to write the script for the Deadwood movie until he finishes his current commitment. “He pitched what he thought generally the storyline would be - and knowing David, that could change. “David has our commitment that we are going to do it,” said Lombardo. According to TVLine, HBO President Michael Lombardo said that the network has finally given Milch the greenlight to proceed with a Deadwood movie. But there is hope that Deadwood may finally live again, if only as a single TV movie.
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