David Milch’s new series, Luck @HBO — Watch the trailer, See Milch live on Feb 1 at Live Talks LA

Here’s a trailer for the new series on HBO written by David Milch and directed by Michael Mann, starring Dustin Hoffman.  We host David Milch on February 1 at Track 16 at Bergamot Station talking about his writing career and the series with Richard Stayton, Editor, Written By magazine. Tickets here.

 

David Milch and HBO’s, Luck, in the news…at Live Talks on Feb 1

We host David Milch at Track 16 at Bergamot Station in Santa Monica on Wednesday February 1. Tickets and more info here. He’ll be in conversation with Richard Stayton, Editor, Written By magazine.

Milch (Deadwood, NYPD Blue, Hill Street Blues) is creator and writer of HBO’s new series, Luck, which debuts on January 29th and stars Dustin Hoffman and is directed by Michael Mann.

Hoffman appeared at Live Talks in 2010 interviewing Scott Turow.  Here’s  the video from that event.

Here are some links of recent articles about David Milch that may be of interest.

* Q&A: David Milch talks William Falkner and his new deal with HBO (Los Angeles Times, November 30, 2011)
* HBO takes a gamble on ‘Luck’ (Los Angeles Times, January 22)
* HBO: Lucky at the racetrack? (USA Today, January 13)
* HBO Takes Its Money to the Track (Wall Street Journal, January 13)
* David Milch Luck Interview — On Deadwood Movie, True Grit and Luck (Esquire, January 14)
David Milch will tackle William Faulkner’s works for HBO (Los Angeles Times, December 25, 2011)
* David Milch Strikes Deal to Bring Falkner Works to HBO (New York Times, November 30, 2011)
* David Milch and Michael Mann Gamble with Luck (Written By magazine, January 2012)

See you February 1 at Track 16.

February 1 — An Evening with David Milch

Wednesday, February 1, 2012
8pm (Reception 6:30-7:30pm)

PLEASE  NOTE THAT THIS EVENT IS BEING RE-SCHEDULED.
NEW DATE TO BE ANNOUNCED SOON. 

An Evening with David Milch
discussing his writing career and new HBO series, Luck

Tickets on sale when new event date is posted ($20, $95 includes pre-event reception)

Track 16 at Bergamot Station
2525 Michigan Avenue, Bldg C-1
Santa Monica, CA

David Milch, Emmy-Award-winning writer and producer, is the creator and Executive Producer of Luck, starring Dustin Hoffman, which debuts on HBO on January 29, 2012. Milch, who won the Tinker Prize for highest achievement in English at Yale University and earned an M.F.A.from the Writer’s Workshop at The University of Iowa; left a teaching career at Yale to write for Hill Street Blues. He subsequently served as Executive Story Editor and then Executive Producer for Hill Street Blues. In 1992, Milch co-created the history-making police drama NYPD Blue. Milch took home Emmys for Best Writing in a Drama for the 1996-1997 and 1997-1998 seasons. Milch created another police drama, Brooklyn South, and co-authored, along with NYPD Blue producer Bill Clark, True Blue: The Real Stories Behind NYPD Blue, and served as creative consultant for Steven Bochco’s Murder One and Total Security. From 2002-2006, Milch produced Deadwood, a dramatic series for HBO, where he served as creator, writer, and executive producer. Milch is currently developing a legal drama for NBC with Steven Bochco, and the feature film Heavy Rain for Warner Bros.

In November of 2011 HBO announced that it had entered into a deal with David Milch’s Redboard Productions to produce films and television series based on the literary works of William Faulkner. The deal would cover all of the 19 novels and 125 short stories in the William Faulkner estate, as well as other works, with the exception of those currently contracted with other parties.

David Milch will be in conversation with Richard Stayton, Editor, Written By magazine