New Western about the Daltons

[Johnny McCrae]

Below is an article about a new western in the works about the Daltons called Desperadoes....

FX has put in development Desperadoes, a six-hour miniseries about one of the most dangerous gangs of the Old West, the Dalton Brothers. Based on the 1979 novel by Ron Hansen, the project is written by Robert Knott, who is executive producing with Josh Maurer and Alixandre Witlin. Desperadoes, produced by Fox TV Studios, chronicles the infamous Dalton Gang’s dangerous crime spree in the 1890s, as seen through the eyes of the youngest brother Emmett Dalton. The gang, which included three Dalton brothers, specialized in bank and train robberies. In Hansen’s book, Emmet Dalton — aged 65 in 1937 — is the sole survivor of the infamous gang and makes a living by selling his outrageous stories of murder, bootlegging and thievery to Hollywood. Actor-writer-producer Knott, who has signed with APA, has appeared in more than three dozen films and has collaborated with actor-director Ed Harris on several projects including Pollock. The two currently are developing Tulsa, a cable project about the early oil boom. Knott also authored the best-selling novel Robert B. Parker’s Ironhorse. His second novel Bull River is scheduled for a January release. He is also repped by Thruline and Allison Binder.

[Shawnee McGrutt]

Sounds interesting.  Will have to watch for it.

[nagantino]

I've read Desparadoes, it's a great story, well written. It captures the strange time-gap between the events portrayed, bank and train robbery by horsemen with six guns, and the modern age. Dalton was a reformed man, complete with bullet holes, looking back to his youth of robbery and crime. Without spoiling, he meets the guys who shot him and his brothers down.....shaking hands and reminiscing like it happened in a school play. Great book.

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