The Western world of Wyatt Earp is one that Val Kilmer knows well, having played Doc Holliday in 1993’s Tombstone alongside Kurt Russell as Earp. But now Kilmer is getting an upgrade, landing the role of the lawman himself in indie drama The First Ride of Wyatt Earp.
Darren Benjamin Shepherd wrote the script, which is based on a true story. It sees the elder Earp giving an interview to a reporter and taking the occasion to think back to the journey that made him a legend – with the young marshal rounding up a posse to track down the man who murdered Earp’s best gal by accident.
Country music warbler Trace Adkins will play Earp’s pop, while Diana DeGarmo, Matt Dallas, Wilson Bethel, Shawn Roberts, Stephen Grayhm, Scott Whyte and Levi Fiehler are all part of the younger chunk of the story.
With an eye to producing a “Young Guns for the next generation,” Mike Feifer is busy shooting the movie now in California, but there’s no word on a release date yet.