Harrison Ford to Play Wyatt Earp in Black Hats

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The film will be based on the Max Allan Collins novel, with Thunder
Road's Basil Iwanyk and Jason Netter of Kickstart Productions producing.

Kurt Johnstad, who co-wrote 300 and is co-writing its sequel, [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.], has been hired to write the adaptation.

The book is described as follows:

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 [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.],
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
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a glittering world of showgirls and cafe society, of gangsters and
gamblers, where their legends may even end as Scarface Al's begins.