Harrison Ford to Play Wyatt Earp in Black Hats
A new Wyatt Earp film is coming our way in the form of Patrick Culhane’s novel, Black Hats. Cuhlane is the pseudonym used for Max Allan Collins, who wrote the graphic novel, The Road to Perdition. Harrison Ford told Heat Vision he’s attached to star as Wyatt Earp, and that Kurt Johnstad (300: The Battle of Artemisia) is writing the screenplay.
The novel’s plot: “A brilliant, original thriller that re-creates an exciting and dangerous time in American history and brings together two storied and feared crime legends.
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 even end as Scarface Al’s begins.
