Harrison Ford is set to play an aging 'Wyatt Earp' in Black Hats. The big screen adaption of Max Allan Collin's 2007 novel of the same name. Collins used the pen name 'Patrick Culhane' for the book. THR broke the news. Basil Iwanyk & Jason Netter of Kickstart Productions will produce. Kurt Johnstad [300] has been hired to pen the script. Hit the jump for the details.
The Book is described as thus:
The Book is described as thus:
"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."
