With Justified recently concluded on FX, Chris Provenzano, whose position on the acclaimed crime drama rose from executive story editor to executive producer over the course of six seasons, is looking to another Elmore Leonard property for his next project. Provenzano has struck a deal with AMC that will include him developing Leonard’s Western novel Gunsights for the network.
Leonard, widely considered to be one of the best Western writers of all time, penned Gunsights in 1979. The novel, set in 1893, focuses on two men, Brendan Early and Dana Moon, who meet first as allies working as a lieutenant and scout for the 10th Cavalry, tracking down renegade Apaches and scalp hunters. Years later, though, the pair find themselves on opposite sides of the fierce Rincon Mountain War, with Early working for a mining company that’s determined to drive Moon and his people off their long-held Arizona land.
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Leonard, widely considered to be one of the best Western writers of all time, penned Gunsights in 1979. The novel, set in 1893, focuses on two men, Brendan Early and Dana Moon, who meet first as allies working as a lieutenant and scout for the 10th Cavalry, tracking down renegade Apaches and scalp hunters. Years later, though, the pair find themselves on opposite sides of the fierce Rincon Mountain War, with Early working for a mining company that’s determined to drive Moon and his people off their long-held Arizona land.
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- 6/22/2015
- by Isaac Feldberg
- We Got This Covered
The writing of the late, great Elmore Leonard that inspired "Justified" — which begins its sixth and final season tonight at 10 on FX — could be incredibly self-aware at times. Characters in Leonard stories tend to be big fans of popular culture, and they know exactly which archetypes to compare themselves to, which roles they are playing (or think they're playing) in their particular story, and even like to predict how the story is will conclude. That level of meta commentary has waxed and waned over the previous five seasons of "Justified," but it's at top volume early in the new year (I've seen the first three episodes). Raylan (Timothy Olyphant), Boyd (Walton Goggins) and Ava (Joelle Carter) all know the story they've been tangled up in these last few years is about to finish up, and the only question is how. There's much talk of the way Harlan County itself has begun its death rattle,...
- 1/20/2015
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Hitfix
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