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07-20-2010, 10:21 AM
He may not be swinging with Spider-Man any longer, but Sam Raimi is hardly lacking for work.
He's hardly snubbing the geek genre world either, as Variety announced that he's signed on to direct Earp: Saints for Sinners for DreamWorks and Radical Studios.
Saints for Sinners is based on the upcoming graphic novel Earp: Saints for Sinners that's being published by Radical Comics. More details of the graphic novel are going to be unveiled this week at ComicCon, but Variety describes it as a sci-fi western. And yes, it does star Wyatt Earp, or at least a modern day incarnation of him. This Earp battles outlaws in a post-apocalyptic wasteland where the only bit of civilization left is in Las Vegas. It sounds like it could be The Stand meets Tombstone, crossed with Raimi's The Quick and the Dead and beloved Evil Dead series.
Radical Publishing has been in the news a lot this summer. They signed an exclusive deal with Sam Worthington, they have a grown-up fairy tale in development with Ron Howard, and they're working on a graphic novel / movie with Tron: Legacy director Joseph Kosinski.
This will most likely be the movie Raimi starts work on after his forthcoming Disney project Oz the Great and Powerful, a prequel to The Wizard of Oz starring Robert Downey Jr.
Wyatt Earp remains an iconic figure of late 19th-century US western history, best known for his role in the gunfight at the OK Corral, alongside Doc Holliday and his brothers, Virgil and Morgan Earp. He has been depicted in film many times, most recently Tombstone and Wyatt Earp, released in 1993 and 1994 respectively.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, Matt Cirulnick will write the script for the project, which is being produced at Dreamworks. The film will be officially announced on Thursday at San Diego's Comic-Con convention.
He's hardly snubbing the geek genre world either, as Variety announced that he's signed on to direct Earp: Saints for Sinners for DreamWorks and Radical Studios.
Saints for Sinners is based on the upcoming graphic novel Earp: Saints for Sinners that's being published by Radical Comics. More details of the graphic novel are going to be unveiled this week at ComicCon, but Variety describes it as a sci-fi western. And yes, it does star Wyatt Earp, or at least a modern day incarnation of him. This Earp battles outlaws in a post-apocalyptic wasteland where the only bit of civilization left is in Las Vegas. It sounds like it could be The Stand meets Tombstone, crossed with Raimi's The Quick and the Dead and beloved Evil Dead series.
Radical Publishing has been in the news a lot this summer. They signed an exclusive deal with Sam Worthington, they have a grown-up fairy tale in development with Ron Howard, and they're working on a graphic novel / movie with Tron: Legacy director Joseph Kosinski.
This will most likely be the movie Raimi starts work on after his forthcoming Disney project Oz the Great and Powerful, a prequel to The Wizard of Oz starring Robert Downey Jr.
Wyatt Earp remains an iconic figure of late 19th-century US western history, best known for his role in the gunfight at the OK Corral, alongside Doc Holliday and his brothers, Virgil and Morgan Earp. He has been depicted in film many times, most recently Tombstone and Wyatt Earp, released in 1993 and 1994 respectively.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, Matt Cirulnick will write the script for the project, which is being produced at Dreamworks. The film will be officially announced on Thursday at San Diego's Comic-Con convention.