In the Works

Heartwarming Gunslingers?

Randall Wallace has a love of strong, heroic and heartwarming stories. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his screenplay of Braveheart, and he wrote and directed We Were Soldiers and directed Secretariat. Vince Vaughn will star in Gunslingers, based on a Wallace script. This story involves several “iconic Western archetypes and/or character figures.” Since it takes place in Los Angeles, we wonder if the story will feature outlaw-lawman Wyatt Earp.

IN THE WORKS

Michael Preece, who worked as a script supervisor in The Getaway and Breakheart Pass, and who directed many episodes of Walker, Texas Ranger, is set to shoot When the Storm God Rises. Preece and writer/producer Thomas E. Kelly plan on shooting the film in Texas and Arizona. Some of the story’s characters include Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday and Bat Masterson. The picture is due out in 2013.

True West’s PBS Special

ourtrageous-arizona-bob-boze-bellTrue West’s Executive Editor Bob Boze Bell, Old West Saviors columnist Jana Bommersbach and Ask the Marshall columnist and Arizona State Historian Marshall Trimble will celebrate Arizona’s centennial

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Hardin Biopic

hardin-biopic“We plan on shooting this epic, never-before-told story about the life of John Wesley Hardin,” says Miguel Corona, an associate producer of the upcoming film Hardin.

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Django Unchained Preview

lenonardo-dicaprio_django-unchaninedA preview of Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained is now available on YouTube.

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Mission

True West captures the spirit of the American West with authenticity, personality and humor by linking our history to our present. Whether you call it the Wild West, the Old West or the Far West, America's frontier history comes to life in True West, the world's oldest, continuously published Western Americana magazine.

Western movie fans, re-enactors, history buffs and road warriors, we got your history covered: outlaw, cowboy, Indian, lawman, gunfighter, fur trapper, miner, prospector, gambler, soldier, entertainer and pioneer. Check out these True Westerners now!
 

Product of the Month

The Illustrated Life and Times of Wyatt Earp

Wyatt Earp

"Your book is fascinating, coupling your powerful illustrations [and] tracking...from birth to Tombstone to the legend [Wyatt] had become;...even Wyatt would approve." --By Hugh O'Brian, of the TV series The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp

"Hands down the definitive books on Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday." --By Allen Barra, New York Newsday