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David Mamet To Reboot ‘Have Gun – Will Travel’ For CBS

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday August 21, 2012 @ 3:00pm PDTTags: Big Deals TV, CBS, David Mamet
Nellie Andreeva

CBS has put in development Have Gun – Will Travel, a reboot of the 1957 CBS Western drama, to be penned by writer/director/playwright David Mamet. Mamet is set to direct the potential pilot, which will be produced by CBS TV Studios. He is executive producing with agent-turned-producer Elliott Webb.

Have Gun – Will Travel, whose title plays on a line commonly used in personal ads, aired on CBS from 1957 through 1963 and also spawned a successful radio version. Its producers included Frank Pierson, and one of its main writers was Gene Roddenberry who would go on to create Star Trek. Created by Sam Rolfe and Herb Meadow, Have Gun starred Richard Boone as Paladin, a top-notch gunfighter who preferred to settle problems without violence but stood his ground when provoked. (Watch the opening sequence below)

Have Gun – Will Travel brings Oscar-nominated writer and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Mamet back to CBS where he created his only TV series to date, military drama The Unit, which ran for four seasons. ICM Partners-repped Mamet most recently wrote and directed the upcoming HBO Phil Spector movie starring Al Pacino and Helen Mirren. This is the second classic series CBS is looking to reboot this season along with The Brady Bunch, whose revamp is produced by Vince Vaughn. Last year, the network developed a remake of 1958 Western drama The Rifleman, but the project didn’t make it to pilot.

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Joy Bryant Wins The Role Demi Moore Played In ‘About Last Night’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday August 15, 2012 @ 3:04pm PDTTags: Big Deals Film, Clint Culpepper, David Mamet, Screen Gems, Steve Pink
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Parenthood’s Joy Bryant has won the female lead in the currently untitled Screen Gems’ romantic comedy that is based on the David Mamet play Sexual Perversity In Chicago, which was turned into the film About Last … Read More »

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Helen Mirren To Replace Bette Midler In HBO’s Phil Spector Biopic

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday July 18, 2011 @ 3:09pm PDTTags: Al Pacino, Bette Midler, David Mamet, HBO, Helen Mirren, Phil Spector
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: Less than a week after filming of the HBO Films movie Phil Spector was suspended after co-star Bette Midler had to pull out for medical reasons, the producers of the David Mamet-written and directed movie have found a … Read More »

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Bette Midler Pulls Out Of Phil Spector Biopic

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Tuesday July 12, 2011 @ 8:31pm PDTTags: David Mamet, HBO Films

UPDATED WEDNESDAY AM: Bette Midler has released this statement about exiting HBO’s Phil Spector biopic because of a herniated disc that may need surgery: “I am heartbroken to be forced to leave this terrific project, working with David … Read More »

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And In Other Film Deals…

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday October 8, 2010 @ 1:52pm PDTTags: Al Pacino, Ashley Judd, David Mamet, HBO, Movie Deals, Movies, Phil Spector
Mike Fleming

HBO has Al Pacino moving from Jack Kevorkian to playing Phil Spector in a film directed by David Mamet. I can tell you that Cameron Crowe tried for years to make a studio feature film about Mr. Wall Of Sound with Tom Cruise playing the gun-toting volatile record producer. But eventually … Read More »

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Spoof Written & Directed By David Mamet

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Thursday September 16, 2010 @ 1:52pm PDTTags: David Mamet, Video

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