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Oscar winner Akiva Goldsman has signed a two-year exclusive overall deal with HBO. The first project under the pact is an untitled Western drama

about Doc Holliday, the famed gambler and gunslinger of the Old West. Feature scribes Adam Cooper and Bill Collage (Accepted) will write the script

and will executive produce with Goldsman and his producing partner Kerry Foster

Ron Howard is attached to direct the potential pilot. His father, Rance Howard, will serve as co-producer along with his wife Judy Howard

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the HBO project aims to put Holliday front and center as the series protagonist, an educated Southern gentleman and dentist by trade, thrust into the cruel

and violent world of the Old West in order to salvage his ailing health. The series will feature the never-before-explored love triangle between Holliday,

his prostitute wife, Kate Elder and best friend, Wyatt Earp — all set against the lawlessness and desperation of a rapidly changing society.

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مثل ما توقعت السيزن الي جاي كل قنوات الكيبل و النيتورك راح تقدم مسلسلات ويسترن

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Goldsman mentioned the idea to frequent collaborator Ron Howard while the two were discussing their latest project, The Dark Tower.

Howard is set to direct and Goldsman is writing the adaptation of the Stephen King’s book series, which is looking for a home as a feature trilogy

and an accompanying limited TV series after being put in turnaround by NBCUniversal

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“we’re still pushing the boulder uphill,” Goldsman said but is optimistic that the ambitious project will find a home “very soon.” The writing duo of Cooper and Collage,

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After hitting gold with horror series The Walking Dead, AMC is looking to expand its genre portfolio with a sci-fi drama. The cable network has

bought Thunderstruck, an hourlong UFO project from feature writing/directing duo Paul Boardman and Scott Derrickson and former Battlestar Galactica

executive producer David Eick. Boardman and Derrickson will write the drama, about powerful and enigmatic entities that begin appearing all over the world.

After one shows up in the town of Great Falls, Montana, the local citizens must grapple with the dramatic effects and growing mystery of repeated visitations.

Boardman and Derrickson will executive produce Thunderstruck with Eick. Derrickson is set to direct.

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HBO’s drama pilot The Corrections continues to assemble a stellar cast. In his first regular TV series gig, Ewan McGregor has been tapped to co-star

in the Noah Baumbach/Scott Rudin project, joining previously cast Chris Cooper and Dianne Wiest

Based on Jonathan Franzen’s acclaimed book, The Corrections revolves around the troubles of a Midwestern couple (Cooper and Wiest), and their three adult children

as they trace their lives from the mid-20th century to “one last Christmas” together near the turn of the millennium

McGregor will play Chip, the middle child, a Marxist academic who lost his tenure-track position over an affair with a student and now works for a Lithuanian crime boss

defrauding American investors - Baumbach and Franzen co-wrote the adaptation, with Baumbach set to direct the pilot

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