Sam Raimi is returning to the genre of his 1995 film The Quick and the Dead… sort of. The Spider-Man director is circling a post-apocalyptic western titled Earp: Saints for Sinners, a graphic novel from Radical Comics.
The three-issue series re-imagines Wyatt Earp as a lawman taking on outlaws in a futuristic, dystopian Las Vegas. Matt Cirulnick, a co-creator of the comic, will write the script, reports THR. Radical will make an official announcement at Comic-Con this weekend.
The historical figure of Earp has appeared in over 40 different movies and television series, according to IMDB, including dueling portrayals by Kurt Russell in Tombstone and Kevin Costner in the aptly-titled Wyatt Earp.
Raimi’s plate is already full of tentpole projects like Disney’s Oz the Great and Powerful, shooting next year, and the slow-moving adaptation of the World of Warcraft. With his schedule cleared due to the Spider-Man 4 cancellation, I’m surprised Raimi didn’t search for a project ready to shoot, instead of one without a script. Raimi regularly keeps a long list of potential films to direct, but this sounds too much like a rehash to get excited about it.
Synopsis of the comic series:
In a world where the American economy has all but collapsed to the levels of The Great Depression, celebrity bandits roam the country and the law is corrupt as the criminal it’s sworn to stop. Yet one lawman remains a steadfast moral compass for the people: WYATT EARP. Earp has collared more most-wanted men than any man in history- but after a violent assignment claims the life of his brother, Wyatt sets out to forge a simple life in the only boomtown left: Las Vegas. With gorgeous women and free-flowing money on endless tap, Sin City attracts more people than a modern gold rush. And though Earp no longer wears a U.S. Marshal’s badge here, his past is about to catch up to him. He’ll have to beat long Vegas odds to bring old-fashioned justice to Sin City.
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