With another television network, the idea of a series surrounding cult western icon Doc Holliday may have sounded and turned out corny and stale, but with the announcement that HBO will produce – that is something we all should be excited about. The network responsible for some of the greatest ground-breaking television shows as THE SOPRANOS, BOARDWALK EMPIRE and THE WIRE will produce the new series based on the book Doc by Mary Doria Russell.
Akiva Goldsman will oversee the project that will once again see the network venture back to western genre after their incredible award-winning series DEADWOOD was cruelly cancelled in 2006. The project will follow Holliday’s earlier life as a likeable dentist and his decent into the violent world of bandits and gunslingers. He was good friends with another western icon Wyatt Earp, and was a prominent part of the legendary gunfight at the O.K. Corral before his death from tuberculosis at the age of 36.
The character has previously been portrayed by Kirk Douglas (GUNFIGHT AT THE O.K. CORRAL, 1957), Val Kilmer (TOMBSTONE, 1993) and Dennis Quaid (WYATT EARP, 1994).
Source: Deadline
