1964’s A Fistful of Dollars was Clint Eastwood’s breakout role that has launched his long and prosperous career as a lead actor and a director. Now, the spaghetti western, directed by Sergio Leone, is being adapted into a TV series. According to Deadline, Mark Gordon Pictures are responsible for the project. Reportedly, Bryan Cogman, who worked on Game of Thrones, is heading the adaptation of the script.
A Fistful of Dollars follows Eastwood’s The Man with No Name, who finds himself in the village of San Miguel. He gets entangled in a power struggle between the three Rojo brothers, the local sheriff John Baxter and a regiment of Mexican soldiers. He sells information for all sides for his own gain.
The movie is an “unofficial” remake of Akira Kurosawa’s Yojimbo which follows a similar story. Studio Toho, which made Yojimbo even filed a lawsuit—and settled out of court.
The new show will “pull from this source material for an original, contemporary retelling of the story.” It seems that in the current atmosphere, where the archetype of the lone gruff gunman has somewhat lost its appeal, contemporary will be the key-word.
