Warner Bros. buys spec western “Wild Guns” from writer T.S. Nowlin. From THR:
Set shortly after the Civil War, legendary gunslingers Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday team-up to rescue the daughter of Sitting Bull, who has been kidnapped by a powerful Shaman with mysterious powers who is terrorizing the Western plains.
Nowlin is repped by WME and Energy.
By my count, this is the 23rd spec script to sell in 2011.
The 23rd spec script didn’t sell last year until June 4th, so sales are up year-to-date.
Damn, that's a slick-ass logline.
If this concept is an example of "the same, but different," I'll stick with the same.
Flicks like "Butch Cassidy" and "Unforgiven" have proven you can enrich the genre without morphing it into a tentpole machine.
Since I'm also working on a post-Civil War western, I was intrigued. It sounds interesting, but makes me wonder what the Shaman's plan entails.
And you would think somebody would have realized that "team-up" should NOT be hyphenated.