In what can only be described as the best news I’ve heard this week, Paramount pictures is developing Chad St. John’s spec script THE FURTHER ADVENTURES OF DOC HOLLIDAY so that it may someday become a movie that we can see using our vision. Variety says that the movie will be “a history-based action adventure tale in the vein of PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN.”
I have no idea how you can consider PIRATES a history-based adventure movie considering there isn’t anything historical going on in it. I’m guessing they mean that it is based in the past, which is true. Strange wording aside, Doc Holliday is an awesome character; at least he was when played by Val Kilmer. His portrayal was awesome because (since he was dying anyway) he had this kind of aw-shucks attitude about everything. If they base the movie around that Doc, then this could be a fantastic western. If they go with the lamer Dennis Quaid Holliday then they hate democracy.