Whoa, brace yourselves, Western fans!

I know you’ve been getting short shrift for literally YEARS now.  Maybe you only get three or four new releases a year, and most of your new stuff comes in the form of remastered antiques.  If it weren’t for 3:10 to Yuma you’d probably STILL be watching Wyatt Earp.

But now I’ve got an absolutely charming bit of news here that’ll really put a hitch in your gitalong, as it were.  The SECOND longest running television series of all time, which lost its crown to no less a media icon than The Simpsons, Gunsmoke will be getting its own big-screen adaptation.  You may not be terribly heartened by the news that it will have a more “contemporary look” and “modern action”, but there’s no denying that it will in fact exist.

They’re bringing in the screenwriter from National Treasure: Book of Secrets to handle the script on this one, so at the very least they mean to get some mileage out of this one.  Release dates are still a pipe dream at this point, but when there’s more to tell you,  you know we’ll have it right here.