Sam Raimi To Direct Earp: Saints For Sinners

by Josh Wigler – MTV News

Just because Sam Raimi has parted ways with the “Spider-Man” franchise doesn’t mean the filmmaker is leaving comic books altogether. In fact, the director has just booked his next paneled page property.

Heat Vision reports that Raimi is attached to direct “Earp: Saints for Sinners,” based on the Radical Publishing graphic novel of the same name. David Hoberman and Todd Lieberman at DreamWorks, Radical president Barry Levine and Star Road Entertainment’s Josh Donen are serving as producers.

“Saint for Sinners” tells a reimagined version of Western icon Wyatt Earp, thrusting the gunslinger into a dystopian future where he routinely takes out the bad guys and hangs his hat in Las Vegas. The comic was created by Matt Cirulnick and David Manpearl, with Cirulnick also writing the film’s screenplay.

Further details regarding “Saints for Sinners” are expected to be unveiled at Radical’s Comic-Con panel in San Diego on Thursday.

In saddling up for “Saints for Sinners,” Raimi has now added a third project to his increasingly busy film slate. The former “Spider-Man” director is already in negotiations to get behind the lens for Disney’s “Oz, the Great and Powerful,” with “Iron Man” star Robert Downey, Jr. rumored to headline as the titular wizard. Raimi is also attached to direct “World of Warcraft,” a project he enthusiastically spoke with MTV News about as recently as this month.

“Saints for Sinners” won’t be Raimi’s first voyage out west, as he also directed the 1995 western “The Quick and the Dead.”

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