The great filmmaker Sam Peckinpah may have passed in 1984, but a project the writer-director had worked on before then has been found and dusted off. That script is ‘The Texans’.
Screen Junkies gives the wonderful news:
The story is that producer Al Ruddy stumbled upon the script, called The Texans, while going through his belongings recently. It had been on his desk for 20 years after being ditched due to City Slickers ruining the market for straightforward westerns. Now that the classic western is making a comeback, most recently thanks to the Coen brothers’ stellar True Grit, The Texans is being put back into development.
There is many a director who was inspired by ‘The Wild Bunch’ director; either a ton of names will line up just due to the idea of working on something written by their idol which hasn’t been filmed ans will do it as an honor. Or nobody will touch the script out of reverence and honor.
I would love to see this happen. I would pay full price and I don’t know who is cast. All I know is, one of the most influential directors of the last century has just spoken from his tombstone.
Don’t you tell me Hollywood is out of ideas. One has just been found.
Anyone else buzzed about this? Who could fill Peckinpah’s shoes?
