[DOC] [TLE] 14 Fascinating Facts About 'Sling Blade' | Mental Floss [PAR] Nov 29, 2015 ... John Ritter's backstory for his gay convenience store manger involved the ... He 
also came up with the character's distinctive manner of speaking right then and 
there. Thornton developed the character of Karl Childers further via a ... the short 
during the Sling Blade Oscar press tour because he had a falling... [DOC] [TLE] <i>Sling Blade</i> [Movie] - Encyclopedia of Arkansas - The ... [PAR] Feb 26, 2013 ... Sling Blade opens on the day that Karl Childers (Thornton), ... child he endured 
similar abuse from his own father (Robert Duvall in ... Thornton conceived of the 
character of Karl while working on the 1987 cable TV movie The... [DOC] [TLE] Sling Blade - Wikipedia [PAR] Sling Blade is a 1996 American drama film set in rural Arkansas, written and 
directed by Billy Bob Thornton, who also stars in the lead role. It tells the story of a 
man named Karl Childers who has a developmental ... Karl is haunted by the task 
given to him by his parents when he was six or eight years old to dispose of his... [DOC] [TLE] WashingtonPost.com: Who Is That Guy? [PAR] Mar 23, 1996 ... While Thornton isn't exactly a born-again, he instills his remarkable directorial ... 
with those he learned growing up in the hardscrabble latitudes of Arkansas. ... "A 
lot of people might think the movie is a slam on religion, but in fact it's ... from his 
one-man show, tells the story of Karl Childers, a slow-gaited,... [DOC] [TLE] Sling Fever - People [PAR] Mar 24, 1997 ... His movie Sling Blade, a disturbing tale of a slow-witted man who returns ... 
Thornton has been living with Karl Childers, the Sling Blade character, for 10 
years now. In 1987 he was a struggling actor, depressed and bored on the set of 
the ... (It came true when he did three episodes of CBS's Evening Shade... [DOC] [TLE] Billy Bob Thornton - Film Actor, Director - Biography.com [PAR] Billy Bob Thornton - The Dark Side (TV-PG; 1:53) Actor Billy Bob Thornton talks ... 
In 1996 his career took off when he wrote, starred in and directed Sling Blade, ... 
On the movie's production set, Thornton first began developing the character of ... 
He played Karl Childers on stage in the form of a dramatic monologue, and in... [DOC] [TLE] Billy Bob Thornton profile - Hello! [PAR] Up till then he had got by landing minor parts in low-budget films and TV shows. It 
was while he was portraying a five-line role in the 1987 cable movie The Man 
Who Broke 1,000 Chains that Billy Bob had his moment of inspiration. ... him to 
overact, the actor devised the character of Karl and improvised a monologue for 
him. [DOC] [TLE] Billy Bob Thornton Biography | Fandango [PAR] Oct 11, 2013 ... So Thornton returned to his job for awhile until he and Epperson renewed ... (
Thornton allegedly invented the Childers character years prior, while shaving 
and ... cultural impact with the low-budget, independent drama Sling Blade. ... a 
sequel of sorts to that work, the picture finds Karl Childers returning to... [DOC] [TLE] Billy Bob Thorton: The Hillbilly Orson Welles - MovieMaker Magazine [PAR] Sep 3, 1998 ... his Deep South eccentricities like a saber, but Billy Bob Thornton ... hillbillies, like 
Karl Mmm-Hmmm Childers, the simpleton ... His character ... be offered this kind 
of movieit just always happens, he ... I mean as a person who grew up being 
low man ... All the while, Sling Blade was still hacking away [DOC] [TLE] Sling Blade (1996) - This Distracted Globe [PAR] Jul 14, 2008 ... After explaining to a school reporter why he killed his mother and her ... of twelve 
with a sling blade, mentally challenged Karl Childers (Billy ... a bit part in the 
1987 HBO movie The Man Who Broke 1,000 Chains. ... Then I came up with the 
monologue, with

Question: He came up with his "Sling Blade" character Karl Childers while working on a 1987 TV movie
Answer: Billy Bob Thornton