Harrison Ford to Star as Wyatt Earp in Film Adaptation of Black Hats by Max Allan Collins

Harrison Ford will star as an older Wyatt Earp in a film adaptation of Black Hats by Max Allan Collins (who published the 2007 book as written by Patrick Culhane). Kurt Johnstad will write the adapted screenplay.

Wyatt Earp made his name in his younger days, serving as a lawman who was well known for bending the law where he saw fit, and shooting first and asking questions later. But it's a little-known fact that Earp spent the last twenty years of his life as a private detective in Los Angeles. So when Doc Holliday's mistress implores the aging lawman to track down her and Holliday's errant son in Manhattan, Earp willingly takes the case. His task: to convince the young man to give up his ill-advised involvement in organized crime and boot-legging. Earp enlists his old friend, Bat Masterson, who's now a sportswriter, and delves deep into the world of the New York mafia, where he comes across a young Alphonse Capone. Earp and Masterson, men who earned their names in the rough and tumble, lawless world of decades before, set their sights on liberating a young man from the ruthless thug Capone and his gang.

(Source: The Hollywood Reporter)