A hugely-acclaimed TV production of recent years, Deadwood was a snarling, swearing take on the western genre. It also represented a creatively successful marriage between HBO and writer-producer David Milch, and that pairing is set to be renewed on a new project – a project which will see the entire output of American literary legend William Faulkner brought to the screen.

Well, okay, so it perhaps does seem a bit unlikely that the HBO-Milch axis will deliver either a movie or TV production of every single one of Faulkner’s 19 novels and 125 short stories. But the rights to all the great man’s works have indeed been signed up, so Milch is free to create a filmed interpretation of whichever one he chooses.

For the record, Milch’s own favourite of is Absalom, Absalom!, Faulkner’s 1936 opus all about a kindly talking purple dinosaur whose best friend is a bespectacled boy wizard (no, I’ve not read it). But fair to say, the Deadwood creator is a big fan of all Faulkner’s work:

“They are superb, and compelling, and absolutely authentic. They’re so contemporary… there are so many different kinds of pleasure one gets from encountering those materials.”

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