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Shortly after David Gordon Green’s first feature film, George Washington, was released in 2000 to critical acclaim, he told me he was working a day job at a doorknob factory. The then-25-year-old had been crowned the “next Terrence Malick,” but he wasn’t sure if he’d have the good fortune to write and direct another movie. If he did, he said, it wouldn’t be another art-house film. “I’ve got three scripts that I’m trying to put the money together for right now that are very different from George Washington,” he’d explained. “One is a science-fiction film, one is a love story, and one is a comedy western.” He’d envisioned the latter as a major star vehicle that would cost thirty or forty million dollars, a far…

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