With the upcoming COWBOYS AND ALIENS nearing its release date, Harrison Ford is set to play another cowboy role for his next movie. Only this time he's not fighting with another aliens. Rather, he is attached to star as an aging Wyatt Earp in BLACK HATS, an adaptation of a Max Allan Collins novel.
Kurt Johnstad (300) has been enlisted to adapt the novel.
With a mix of fact and fiction, BLACK HATS tells the story of an aging Wyatt Earp who has spent his last years as a private detective and movie consultant in Los Angeles. Earp has learned that his old friend and compatriot Doc Holliday had a son, who is now living in Prohibition-era New York City. While Holliday is long dead, the son has gotten himself involved with a rising mobster, Al Capone. Earp eventually teams up with Bat Masterson, one of his former deputies and now acclaimed sportswriter for the New York Morning Telegraph. Together they join forces to take down the gang.
Judging from the content, BLACK HATS is no doubt one of the most fascinating movie projects I have heard so far. Wyatt Earp, Al Capone, six shooters and tommy guns with Harrison Ford attached? I'm definitely sensing a potential success here if done right.
