Tuesday, July 27, 2010  Nic Pizzolatto's "Galveston"   Here he
shares some ideas about adapting his new novel Galveston for the
big screen: We've sold the movie option to a production company
that's very enthusiastic about the work, so hopefully a movie
will go forward. In my fanboy imagination, though, I suppose I'd
fantasy cast something like this: Sam Peckinpah circa 1972 to
direct. I of course would write the script. Starring Nick Nolte
circa 1985 as Roy (I'd also take Warren Oates,'76), Natalie
Portman circa 2002 as Rocky, Harvey Keitel as Sam Ptiko,
Annabella Sciorra as Loraine, and, uh, Marisa Tomei as Carmen.
Sure, why not.  Obviously Roy and Rocky are the two big roles,
and you need a brutish, atavistic man to play Roy, an old-school
tough guy possessing range, with a voice that can be played like
a box guitar. Nolte, of course, would have done outstanding
work. I know Warren Oates isn't always classified as a tough-
guy, but the important thing here is that he was a bad
motherfucker, and there's even