Media Rights Capital has teamed up with its Ted partner Universal Pictures to co-finance
Highwaymen, a drama about the Texas Rangers that hunted and gunned down Depression Era bank robbers
Bonnie & Clyde. The film is coming together for a first quarter 2014 production start. John Lee Hancock will direct and
Liam Neeson and
Woody Harrelson are being courted to star. The John Fusco-scripted drama focuses on legendary lawman Frank Hamer, who was coaxed by a consortium of banks to assemble a posse and end the robbery reign of Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow in the 1930s. Casey Silver is producing.
Hamer was an old style Texas Ranger who’d survived 100 gunfights and killed 53 people, and he focused on the duo after their gang organized a jail break and killed a guard. They’ve been talking about this feature for awhile, but they will most certainly come after a miniseries on the same subject by History and Lifetime that’s being directed by Bruce Beresford and has William Hurt playing Hamer.
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