{"id":9204,"date":"2010-07-20T07:05:42","date_gmt":"2010-07-20T12:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=9204"},"modified":"2011-03-07T22:27:33","modified_gmt":"2011-03-08T03:27:33","slug":"raimi-takes-wyatt-earp-for-sci-fi-spin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2010\/07\/20\/raimi-takes-wyatt-earp-for-sci-fi-spin\/","title":{"rendered":"Raimi Takes Wyatt Earp For Sci-Fi Spin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/SamRaimi2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5771\" title=\"SamRaimi2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/SamRaimi2-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"SamRaimi2\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/SamRaimi2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/SamRaimi2.jpg 432w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Director Sam Raimi is taking Wyatt Earp to the future, having attached himself to direct an adaptation of <em>Earp: Saints For Sinners<\/em>. The graphic novel transplants the historical Earp from the Old West to a &#8220;future in which he takes on outlaws in a ravaged society where the only  boomtown left is Las Vegas,&#8221; according to a report from the Hollywood Reporter&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/blogs\/heat-vision\" target=\"_blank\">Heat Vision<\/a> blog. Matt Cirulnick, co-creator of the comic, is set to write the script.<\/p>\n<p>Dreamworks hasn&#8217;t given a greenlight to the project, but I would expect that the studio is probably waiting to see how next summer&#8217;s Old West and science fiction mashup <strong>Cowboys And Aliens<\/strong> fares before moving on to active production.<\/p>\n<p>Mixing the science fiction and western genres haven&#8217;t proven to be a winning combination for the public. Joss Whedon&#8217;s <em>Firefly<\/em> television series tried it, but never was able to capture a substantial audience. A film spinoff, <strong>Serenity<\/strong>, played well to the show&#8217;s cult fanbase, but didn&#8217;t have much crossover appeal. Likewise, the anime series <em>Cowboy Bepop<\/em> also only enjoys a cult following only.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Raimi is set to direct <strong>Oz, The Great And Powerful<\/strong> as his next film and has numerous other projects, including an adaptation of Verne&#8217;s <em>20,000 Leagues Under The Sea<\/em> and the pulp hero the Shadow in development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Director Sam Raimi is taking Wyatt Earp to the future, having attached himself to direct an adaptation of Earp: Saints For Sinners. The graphic novel transplants the historical Earp from the Old West to a <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2010\/07\/20\/raimi-takes-wyatt-earp-for-sci-fi-spin\/\" title=\"Raimi Takes Wyatt Earp For Sci-Fi Spin\">[click for more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[2971,467],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9204","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-earp-saint-for-sinners","8":"tag-sam-raimi"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9204"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=9204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}