Feb 10 2006Terry Gilliam Does Anything For Billy

After a couple moderate disappointments with The Brothers Grimm and Tideland, Terry Gilliam has announced that his next project will be a film based on "Anything For Billy," a novel that partly chronicles the exploits of Billy the Kid:

The film will follow the exploits of Ben Sippy, a writer from Philadelphia who heads west in search of adventure and ends up running into the legendary gunslinger.

The concept sounds pretty interesting, and with Gilliam at the helm, it should be bizarre if nothing else. The western is written by Larry McMurty, co-writer of Brokeback Mountain, though the novel doesn't capitalize on the now-famous homosexual themes of that film. However, I did find it strange how often it described Billy the Kid "spontaneously breaking into a showtune."

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