William T Vollmann Central discussion

Vollmann has only a single entry in imdb. But he's written a screenplay for Whores for Gloria. Here's a thread for submitting film proposals based on Bill's books and other video/film-esque kinds of activities.

Which is here:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3396333/?r...
It's the episode "Holiday Hell" of Life After People and consists of a minute or two of Bill talking about the Salton Sea in Imperial county. It's somewhere on the 'netz but I'm too lazy to dig it up again.

I'm thinking maybe the Seven Dreams could be made into a mini-series of a nature with The Wire. Each season another Dream, another technology disrupting life. I'm also feeling some story and historical overlay with the mini-series Shogun in Fathers and Crows--Jesuits, traders, imperialist opening of new territory, a culture strange to the Europeans. But Shogun has the Jesuits already in Japan, while F&C beginnings with trading and the Black-Shirts waiting to descend.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVgyD...
9:50&24:44

Less of the "mini-" more like a maxi-series epic

I'm not sure some of them would dramatize all that well -- The Rifles and The Ice-Shirt achieve all their best effects through style. However, The Dying Grass would adapt very well -- it's a linear story vividly told and could work as a limited series. The creator of "Deadwood" could probably do a great adaptation of it.