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Netflix is ready to launch one other hybrid docu-drama sequence within the type of Cowboy Wars, a brand new sequence that appears into the true story behind the thirty-second shootout between lawmen led by Virgil Earp.
BAFTA-winning director Patrick Reams will direct this new docudrama sequence who has beforehand labored on tasks with Discovery Channel, HISTORY, Channel 4, and National Geographic. Previous tasks embrace Marilyn Monroe: Auction of a Lifetime, Rebel Pope, Gold Fever, The Men Who Built America, and The Titans That Built America.
Per an official synopsis, right here’s the logline for the brand new docu-series (known as each Cowboy Wars and The Cowboy War) that may include six episodes:
“The untold story behind the most famous shoot-out in American history, the Gunfight At The O.K. Corral.”
Production on the brand new hybrid docu-series befell between mid-October 2022 and November 2022 and is being produced by Banijay’s Emmy Award-winning manufacturing firm Stephen David Entertainment which is behind Netflix’s Roman Empire: Reign of Blood.
Up N Atom and Muse Entertainment are additionally connected.
Stephen David serves as government producer on the challenge, with Alex Jordan producing.
We don’t have an entire solid record for the docudrama but, however we all know that Christina Leonardi will characteristic as Josephine Earp.
What is the Gunfight At The O.Ok. Corral?
Regarded as essentially the most well-known shootout within the historical past of the American Old West. The Gunfight on the O.Ok. Corral was a shootout that occurred on October 26, 1881, in Tombstone, Arizona, between lawmen led by Wyatt, Morgan, and Virgil Earp and a bunch of outlaws often called the Cowboys.
On the day of the gunfight, the Earp brothers and their buddy, Doc Holliday, confronted the Cowboys in a vacant lot close to the O.Ok. Corral. The two teams exchanged gunfire for less than 30 seconds and as soon as the mud settled, three Cowboys have been useless, and Virgil and Morgan Earp have been wounded. The lawmen emerged comparatively unscathed.
The story has been tailored to the display screen within the 1957 Kirk Douglas film Gunfight on the O.Ok. Corral, which John Sturges directed, and extra just lately within the 1993 Kurt Russell film Tombstone.
This docudrama will be part of quite a lot of different profile titles within the Netflix library, together with The Last Czars, Age of Samurai: Battle for Japan, and Roman Empire. Netflix can be at present set to be the streaming dwelling of a docudrama sequence on Alexander The Great.
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