by Mary | Feb 2, 2013 | DOC on HBO, THE SPARROW, The Sparrow movie, THE SPARROW on AMC
Thanks, everybody, for helping me celebrate the AMC/Sparrow option! In answer to FAQs: I won’t be writing scripts. I won’t have input to scripts. I don’t expect to be consulted in any way on scripts, casting, or story arc. When you sign an option,...
by Mary | Oct 14, 2012 | DOC, DOC on HBO, The Cure For Anger, What I'm working on now.
When I was writing Doc, I believed it would be a stand-alone historical novel like A Thread of Grace or Dreamers of the Day. I thought the story of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral was so well known, so much a part of American folklore, that there was no point in going...
by Mary | Dec 1, 2011 | DOC, DOC on HBO, The Sparrow movie
Lots of readers are asking if I’ll be writing any episodes of the HBO series based on Doc. There’s a two-part answer to that question. Part 1: Not a chance. In Hollywood, it is customary to ignore the author of “source material” once the...
by Mary | Nov 22, 2011 | DOC, DOC on HBO, The Cure For Anger
People, I have never kept a secret this long in my life. This has been brewing since June, 2011. Here’s what I heard originally: Ron Howard’s father Rance Howard has a longtime fascination with Doc Holliday. He read Doc when it first came out and took it...