Happy Feet and Master and Commander scribe John Collee is writing a TV show with Mel Gibson based.on the book The Barbary Coast by Herbert Asbury, who also wrote The Gangs of New York.
The plan is for Gibson to direct the pilot and have a recurring role on the show.
.It.s about the birth of a city,. Collee tells If. .There was a period between the Wild West gangsterism and the settlement of America and the birth of these cities. There was a period in San Francisco when a city was just emerging. A lot of stuff had to be worked out from scratch. And it.s all about the rule of law, the stuff we.re wrestling with now in the Middle East. And of course in America they.re readdressing all that stuff..
The project, first announced last April, has been put together by The Mark Gordon Company,...
The plan is for Gibson to direct the pilot and have a recurring role on the show.
.It.s about the birth of a city,. Collee tells If. .There was a period between the Wild West gangsterism and the settlement of America and the birth of these cities. There was a period in San Francisco when a city was just emerging. A lot of stuff had to be worked out from scratch. And it.s all about the rule of law, the stuff we.re wrestling with now in the Middle East. And of course in America they.re readdressing all that stuff..
The project, first announced last April, has been put together by The Mark Gordon Company,...
- 4/25/2017
- by Harry Windsor
- IF.com.au
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