<iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/FD3ec9ADHbQ" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> I love this ****ing network. Tried to find the trailer they aired tonight, but it wasn't up yet.
<object width="512" height="288"><param name="movie" value="http://www.hbo.com/bin/hboPlayerV2.swf?vid=1208460"></param><param name="FlashVars" value="domain=http://www.hbo.com&videoTitle=Season 1 Tease©ShareURL=http%3A//www.hbo.com/video/video.html/%3Fautoplay%3Dtrue%26vid%3D1208460%26filter%3Dluck%26view%3Dnull"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.hbo.com/bin/hboPlayerV2.swf?vid=1208460" FlashVars="domain=http://www.hbo.com&videoTitle=Season 1 Tease©ShareURL=http%3A//www.hbo.com/video/video.html/%3Fautoplay%3Dtrue%26vid%3D1208460%26filter%3Dluck%26view%3Dnull" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="512" height="288"></embed></object><div><a title="Season 1 Tease" href="http://www.hbo.com/video/video.html/?autoplay=true&vid=1208460&filter=luck&view=null">Season 1 Tease</a></div> http://www.hbo.com/#/luck/about/index.html
Hoffman looks like he plays a pretty awesome badass... which isn't that unexpected. The guy is maybe the best actor of his generation.
Nolte, Hoffman, Michael Mann, and best of all David Milch <iframe width="640" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/z2Q7YRDL90E" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> On paper it looks like a sure thing.
Pilot tonight, after Boardwalk. From the pen of David Milch, owner of a lifetime pass for creating/writing Deadwood. (Seriously, dude could be arrested for pulling a Sandusky/Andrea Yates combo, and I'd still say: "Yeah, but he wrote Deadwood. Let's give him the benefit of the doubt on this one. Um, maybe he was doing character research?"). Nick Nolte. Dustin Hoffman. Dennis Farina. Michael "Heat/'Miami Vice'" Mann. Yep.
I have it on DVR but didn't get a chance to watch it after the season finale of Boardwalk. Was it any good?
I watched some of this off and on. Not sure I was exactly following all the gambling stuff but it looked like the teen actor from "The Heavenly Kid" (1985) is some kind of genius who can pick horse winners? I dunno.
And today, it ends, not with a bang, but a neigh.... Deadline Hollywood: "HBO’s ‘Luck’ To Shut Down For Good Following Latest Horse Death" [rquoter]Luck will be no more on HBO. The pay cable network, along with Luck executive producers David Milch and Michael Mann, just announced that they’re ending the series following yesterday’s horse death, the third on the set of the horse racing drama starring Dustin Hoffman. Luck had been in the middle of production on the second episode of Season 2. The recently completed first episode won’t air. Meanwhile, the remaining two episodes of Luck‘s first season will air as scheduled, with the season finale serving also as a series finale. In the immediate aftermath of yesterday’s horse death, HBO initially said that production on Luck will continue with scenes that don’t involve horses. Now the stoppage will encompass the entire production. As of the time of HBO’s announcement, filming on the series was still underway, with the cast and crew unaware of the decision, but was expected to shut down immediately. After drawing a modest 1.1 million viewers for each of the pilot episode’s two premiere airings, in December and then again in January, Luck has slipped in the ratings, logging 686,000 viewers for its most recent first-run episode. However, ratings were never the deciding factor in determining the series’ fate — the mounting horse deaths simply became too much of a liability and a PR nightmare for the network.[/rquoter] Two horses die filming racing scenes. Safety standards are improved. A third dies in transit to the set, bumps his head. All accidents: they cancel the bloody show. I sure hope it was because Milch and Mann weren't getting along, or because Nolte had disappeared into his role and gone native again, and not this. Where else, outside of a twelve-year-old girl's Pixie stick daydreams, am I supposed to find such finely crafted novelistic television, of characters each able to redeem the emptiness in their souls by staring into the baleful eyes of their trusty thoroughbreds? A horse? A horse? My pay cable bill for a horse!
Started off slow but it started getting better with every episode. What a shame, I really enjoyed it.
Wonder if they could do a 2 hour wrap up film, maybe reusing footage of the horses, doubtful considering how quickly they shutdown the show.
For those who don't know, David Milch has been chosen to adapt the PS3 game Heavy Rain to the big screen when he's done with season one of Luck. I was a big fan of the game and can't wait to see how this project comes together. They really need to change the actors, most of which were foreigners faking (badly in most cases) American accents. http://screenrant.com/heavy-rain-movie-david-milch-sandy-98400/ <iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/wMUfUpvFOFg" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
