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Sam Raimi to Direct Earp: Saints for Sinners

By Fiona | Jul 21, 2010 | Movie News (0) Comment

Sam RaimiSam Raimi is attached to direct Radical Comics’ Earp: Saints for Sinners, project that’s already being described as “a modern-day re-imagining of Western hero Wyatt Earp fighting outlaws in a ravaged society where the only boomtown left is Las Vegas.”

Yes, it looks that Raimi is a very busy man, since we already know he’s in charge for World of Warcraft, and Oz, the Great and Powerful as well…

Wyatt Earp, an iconic figure of late 19th-century US western history, is definitely best known for his role in the gunfight at the OK Corral, alongside Doc Holliday and his brothers, Virgil and Morgan Earp.

Matt Cirulnick, who co-wrote the graphic novel, will be charged with writing the screenplay, and this time we can expect to see sci-fi story that goes like this:

“In a world where the American economy has all but collapsed to the levels of the Great Depression, infamous bandits roam the country and the law is as corrupt as the criminals its sworn to stop.

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Eisner, Adler and McCarthy Making HAVANA NOCTURNE

By Allan Ford | Jun 29, 2009 | Movie News (0) Comment

Havana Nocturne

According to THR, producers Eric Eisner (Hamlet 2), Gil Adler (Superman Returns, Valkyrie), and Shane McCarthy are teaming up to adapt the book “Havana Nocturne.”

Based on a New York Times bestseller by T.J. English, “Nocturne” centers on a group of mainly American gangsters in Batista’s Cuba, particularly Meyer Lansky, who run the freewheeling country’s casinos, nightclubs and other debaucherous businesses, and the rivalries that emerge as they lead the high life.

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