Miraculously some film-related things have happened in the past few days that aren’t directly linked to Comic-Con. I know, I can hardly believe it either. That said, it’s hard not to assume this Harrison Ford news reached us now mainly because the star’s latest movie, Cowboys & Aliens, premiered at the San Diego event.
THR reports that Ford after going a little western in the Jon Favreau flick, he’s wants to put on the chaps again as an aging Wyatt Earp in Black Hats, an adaptation of a Max Allan Collins novel (although he published it under a pseudonym). However once more it’s a bit of a genre mash-up, mixing the western with the gangster movie.
In the book, the Prohibition era has just begun, the Wild West a fading memory, and Wyatt Earp is making ends meet as a detective in Los Angeles. To help the late Doc Holliday’s son, Wyatt goes east, where his onetime deputy, Bat Masterson, is New York’s top sportswriter. Wyatt and Masterson face a showdown with a new breed of badmen-mobsters led by Brooklyn’s brutal young Al Capone, in a takeover of young Holliday’s hot new speakeasy. As the ’20s (and machine guns) roar, the lawless lawmen enter a glittering world of showgirls and cafe society, of gangsters and gamblers, where their legends may end as Al’s begins.
Kurt Johnstad, who co-wrote 300 and is co-writing its sequel, 300: Battle of Artemisia (as well as being hired to polish the Man Of Steel script), has been tapped to adapt the novel.
Sounds pretty interesting, although slightly odd at the same time. We’ll also have battling again Earps as Val Kilmer has recently shot a movie as the gunslinger when he was past his prime in The First Ride Of Wyatt Earp.