The Further Adventures of Doc Holliday

[Hunter Rider]

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=61708

Paramount to Show Us Doc Holliday's Adventures

Source:Variety
December 18, 2009


Paramount Pictures has bought Chad St. John's action adventure spec script The Further Adventures of Doc Holliday and hopes to turn it into a Western-style tentpole.

Lorenzo di Bonaventura ("Transformers" films) will produce via his Paramount-based company.

The studio is keeping the story under wraps, but the project is described as a history-based action adventure tale in the vein of the "Pirates of the Caribbean" films.

The famously tuberculosis-ridden gunfighter Holliday is best known for his friendship with Wyatt Earp and for his role in 1881's Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona.

Could be fun.

 

[Nivek]

Great, hope they really capture all the fun of Tuberculosis, alcoholism, and psychotic tendencies!

But seriously, I don't understand, Doc Holiday? I first got interested in the guy in my early teens, and even did two reports on the guy when I was in school. I don't understand why they are trying to make a fun film about the guy, when he excels on film as a pretty dark character (as he really was in life).

 

[Motown Marvel]

if done properly, this would be awesome. but i find it very hard to believe thats gonna happen.

 

[Figs]

So I take it this takes place before going to Tombstone, meeting up with the Earp brothers?

It's going to be hard seeing someone else in the role other than Val Kilmer.

 

[Nivek]

I don't even know how this is supposed to be any good, Doc isn't some Jack Sparrow type, he's a killer dying of TB. The more I think about it, the worse this sounds... "The Adventures..."


"Went to a ****e house with Big Nose Kate, coughed blood into my Whiskey, killed a cowpoke for calling me a cheat at cards..."

I would rather see a legit movie about the man, than some toned down kid flick (from the sound of it).

 

[bullets]

They are trying to make him a JackSparrow type They could make a fun film where he gets in gun fights with random oultaws like Billy the kid , make some nonsense out of it.

 

[Figs]

They are trying to make him a JackSparrow type They could make a fun film where he gets in gun fights with random oultaws like Billy the kid , make some nonsense out of it.

That would probably be the best way to go about it. Like Nivek also said, it's just ridiculous to make him some Jack Sparrow type.

I think your idea is pretty good, just make it heavily fictional and a bit of nonsense involved.

 

[Nivek]

I say play up the dentist angle...

 

[That-Guy]

So I take it this takes place before going to Tombstone, meeting up with the Earp brothers?

It's going to be hard seeing someone else in the role other than Val Kilmer.

I guess you haven't seen "Wyatt Earp" then?

 

[Figs]

I guess you haven't seen "Wyatt Earp" then?

I have and I thought Dennis Quaid also did a pretty good job but I found Val Kilmer's performance to be better.

 

[gwynplaine]

I thought Kirk Douglas was a great Doc Holliday too in "Gunfight at OK Coral".

 

[That-Guy]

I have and I thought Dennis Quaid also did a pretty good job but I found Val Kilmer's performance to be better.

Yeah, I agree with you there (although I hate Kilmer in most other things). Just pointing out that several actors have played the role, so I'm not sure that Kilmer is viewed as the iconic Holliday, or whatever.


Actually, the sad thing now is that whenever I hear the name Doc Holliday, the first thing that jumps to mind is "STEAK!!" Sad what commercialized culture does to us.

 

[C. Lee]

the project is described as a history-based action adventure tale in the vein of the "Pirates of the Caribbean" films.

The most absurd thing I have heard today.

 

[Nivek]

I have and I thought Dennis Quaid also did a pretty good job but I found Val Kilmer's performance to be better.

I liked Quaid as Doc, he looked very much like the real deal (more so than Kilmer). But Costner sucked the life out of that film. Kirk Douglas was my Ultimate mental visualization for Doc for a while, till "I'm your Huckleberry..."

 

[That-Guy]

I liked Quaid as Doc, he looked very much like the real deal (more so than Kilmer). But Costner sucked the life out of that film. Kirk Douglas was my Ultimate mental visualization for Doc for a while, till "I'm your Huckleberry..."

Yeah, Costner's ego was so obvious in that film. Doc was hardly in it.

 

[C. Lee]

Yeah, Costner's ego was so obvious in that film. Doc was hardly in it.

Costner's movie was about Wyatt Earp from birth to death....he was friends with Doc for a few years of that...so it's understandable that Doc wouldn't be in it much.

 

[Nivek]

Wyatts friendship with Doc was a big part of his life, that was one big aspect of why I prefer Tombstone to Wyatt Earp, especially touching on Doc's death.

 

[Figs]

Yeah, I agree with you there (although I hate Kilmer in most other things). Just pointing out that several actors have played the role, so I'm not sure that Kilmer is viewed as the iconic Holliday, or whatever.


Actually, the sad thing now is that whenever I hear the name Doc Holliday, the first thing that jumps to mind is "STEAK!!" Sad what commercialized culture does to us.

I don't get the connection. Was that some commercial on TV or something?

I liked Quaid as Doc, he looked very much like the real deal (more so than Kilmer). But Costner sucked the life out of that film. Kirk Douglas was my Ultimate mental visualization for Doc for a while, till "I'm your Huckleberry..."

Do you mean he just felt more real or Quaid actually resembled the real Doc Holiday?

 

[That-Guy]

There's a steakhouse chain called Doc Holliday's.

 

[Nivek]

Do you mean he just felt more real or Quaid actually resembled the real Doc Holiday?

Well, what do you think, this guy look more like Quaid, or Kilmer?

 

[Maximus One]

Im your huckleberry

Nobody will ever give as good a performance as Kilmer did in Tombstone. Nobody its that simple plus I dont care who resembles the real Doc Holiday Kilmer owned that role. Ive never even seen Wyatt Earp and frankly dont care to.

 

[Wolfwood]

I laughed my butt off the other day because I was working at my elementary school and I heard one of my students behind me say "I'm your huckleberry." I turned around and asked him where he had heard that and he said "My favorite movie, Tombstone."

But yeah, they should've made this movie years ago as a prequel to Tombstone. Ah well.