Bill Paxton To Star In History’s ‘Hatfields And McCoys’, Kevin Reynolds To Direct

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• Add Sam Elliott, Tom Selleck, and Robert Duvall, and you’ve got yourself a western! Haven’t seen Paxton in a western since Tombstone…. And that was one heck of a western!

  Comment by David Boze — Tuesday August 16, 2011 @ 9:16am PDT  Reply to this post

  • Too bad Hatfield’s and McCoys has nothing to do with the old west. But yes… put Sam Elliot in there.

    Comment by m — Tuesday August 16, 2011 @ 1:27pm PDT  Reply to this post

    • Um yes they did, you Yankee! It took place during the times of the “old West”-after the Civil War-when do you THINK the Old West was? That was PRIME TIME for the West! Until y’all carpetbaggers came down to ol Dixie and infiltrated our beloved homeland with your greasy hair and oily skin!

      Comment by brutony — Tuesday August 16, 2011 @ 4:25pm PDT  Reply to this post

      • During the “time” of the Old West, you say? Well, guess what, the Old West didn’t just have a time, it had a place — the actual West. West Virginia and Kentucky are about as EAST as it gets in America.

        Comment by MoreTears — Tuesday August 16, 2011 @ 5:28pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Game over, man! Game over!

  Comment by Anonymous — Tuesday August 16, 2011 @ 9:25am PDT  Reply to this post

  • Greatest Paxton line EVER.

    Comment by Indrid Cold — Tuesday August 16, 2011 @ 10:37am PDT  Reply to this post

• “increasing tensions, misunderstandings and resentments that soon exploded into all-out warfare” – isn’t that pretty much what happened on Waterworld between the two Kevins? As I recall, Kevin C had Kevin R fired, and took over directing and editing duties on that movie. (Which, by the by, I don’t think is as bad as it’s reputation). And on a mini-series, the men will have more than enough time to work on each other’s last nerve.

  But hope that they have a good handle on Hatfield/McCoy sage – could be quite the epic, and both men know of EPIC.

  Comment by CEO — Tuesday August 16, 2011 @ 9:31am PDT  Reply to this post

• Are the Hatfields and McCoys even real? What is it with the History Channel and aliens and Nazis? Every other show is about one or the other. All their investigative programs end in question marks and they showed no moxie at all about canning the Kennedy series. I saw the Kennedy series which the Kennedy family was so quick to trash. There is absolutely nothing new revealed there that we already didn’t know. So why go on the attack? I leave this comment open to the Cosmos with a question mark – so beloved by The History Channel.

  Comment by USC Cine Gal — Tuesday August 16, 2011 @ 6:15pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • As a life-long resident of West Virginia and Kentucky, trust me, it was INCREDIBLY real. Now what’s sad is how much of it was generated by out-of-state newspapers who saw a story in “backwoods” families warring with one another. It’s an amazing story, rife for a good (and factual) re-telling, as much for what is true as for dispelling what isn’t true.

    Comment by Hudson — Wednesday August 17, 2011 @ 6:14am PDT  Reply to this post

  • The Hatfields and McCoys are so real that I’ll wager there is not a native West Virginian or Kentuckian who did not grow up familiar with their names and their legendary fued. While news papers may have made the Hatfield/McCoy fued known ourside of the Appalachain Mountains, it was the local populations of both states who were responsible for spreading the news of the exploits of the two warring clans by word of mouth, the way news still travels in some of the most isolated regions of that mountainous country. The fued had been on for years before journalists picked it up. And to this day, the facts surrounding the two families and their private war, the affairs and exploits of individual members of both families still make a rip-roaring good story. I hope this movie does it justice.

    Comment by Clintona Hare — Friday November 11, 2011 @ 1:37pm PST  Reply to this post

• The Hatfield/McCoys are very real… my x is realated to Mcoys andd fued was very real…

  Comment by John Robertson — Tuesday August 16, 2011 @ 11:37pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Yes, the Hatfields and McCoys were real, but if the program tells the way it’s summarised in this article, it’s gonna be even less true-to-life than Costner’s “Wyatt Earp”.

  In fact, Devil Anse Hatfield was a Southern guerilla leader (which generally meant – on both sides – leader of a gang of outlaws who claimed to be fighting for “the cause”), and McCoy fought in the Union Army.

  Comment by com — Wednesday August 17, 2011 @ 5:23am PDT  Reply to this post

• Yes they are real.

  Comment by Anonymous — Wednesday August 17, 2011 @ 5:57am PDT  Reply to this post

• Thanks for the information. Did any of you see the History Channel’s “Gettysburg?” For all the advertising, including a huge billboard on 42nd in NYC, it was a poor program. It will be interesting to see what they do with the Hatfield and McCoys. I wish viewers would be more critical of their product. I would like to see them try harder to merit their name – History Channel.

  Comment by USC Cine Gal — Wednesday August 17, 2011 @ 9:34am PDT  Reply to this post

• They are very real, I actually worked with a Hatfield descendant. I love Bill Paxton and am really looking forward to this…eventhough Kevin Costner will be in it.

  Comment by Karen — Wednesday August 17, 2011 @ 10:33am PDT  Reply to this post

• my favorite actor is kevin costner want to see more of him in television. in my opinion his films are tasteful also love bill paxton. good match am looking forward to this one

  Comment by val merriman — Monday September 5, 2011 @ 2:39pm PDT  Reply to this post

• The old west is a place, not a time.

  Comment by Anonymous — Thursday February 9, 2012 @ 6:35pm PST  Reply to this post

  • I am sorry to disagree with you. The old west is a Place and Time. Without both it would not exist. Also, without both, we would not have had a future. I wish we could go back to the old west.
    The city folks would not know how to survive.

    Comment by Amy Lee McCoy — Saturday March 17, 2012 @ 8:33pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Hello, will be at the family reunion this june. I am related to both sides. My great, great, great, grandfathers home is a state historical site. We still own it. I was married there. I hope and pray they get it right.

  Thank you,

  Robert

  Comment by Robert r. brooks — Wednesday March 14, 2012 @ 7:26pm PDT  Reply to this post

• I can’t wait to see the story about my ancestors. I have heard stories of the feud from my daddy. It will be a big hit down here in the South. Today, the legend carries on. We are the Real McCoys.

  Comment by Amy Lee McCoy — Saturday March 17, 2012 @ 8:28pm PDT  Reply to this post