Ron Moore, is headed to Hangtown.
The Battlestar Galactica developer/executive producer and Caprica writer Matt Roberts have sold the Western pitch to ABC with Sony attached to produce the series.
According to Deadline, the series is a procedural set in the Old West, “Hangtown is set in the early 1900s in a frontier town that’s begun rapidly expanding with the coming of the railroad. It centers on three characters: the Marshal, a Matt Dillon/Clint Eastwood type who prefers to solve crimes by his instinct, a young Doctor from the East Coast who is interested in using the new field of forensics to solve crimes, and a young woman writer who is trying to sell dime novels to the publishing houses in New York about crime in the Wild West. Every week the instincts of the Marshal, the science of the doctor, and the young woman’s drive to tell a rousing good yarn to her editors, combine to solve crimes in a wide-open, lawless town.”
This is one of several Westerns currently in development and/or production and hopefully a renaissance for the genre on television.
Moore recently shot the pilot for the series, 17th Precinct, which wasn’t picked up, but did feature several Galactica actors. Here’s hoping that they head West.
