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Harrison Ford to play Wyatt Earp in Black Hats

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Harrison Ford is going to be playing Wyatt Earp in the movie Black Hats. The film is an adaptation of a novel by the same name written by Max Allan Collins (aka Patrick Culhane), who also wrote the graphic novel Road to Perdition (which was later turned into a Tom Hank’s film). Kurt Johnstad, one of the co-writers of 300, is being tapped to write the screenplay. The story however is not your typical western…

Black Hats blends fact with fiction in its telling of the story involving an older Earp, the one who spent his last years as a private detective and movie consultant in Los Angeles. The spin involves Earp learning that his friend and compatriot Doc Holliday had a son, now living in Prohibition-era New York City. While Holliday is long dead, the son has gotten himself in trouble with a rising mobster, Al Capone.

Earp teams up with Bat Masterson, one of his former deputies and now noted sportswriter for the New York Morning Telegraph, to take on  the gang in what becomes a tale of six-shooters versus tommy guns.

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Posted By: Skuldren for Roqoo Depot. Where gangsters and Star Wars go together like two droids in an escape pod.