Fox Buys Wyatt Earp Western From Alex Kurtzman & Roberto Orci, Dating Comedy

Fox is joining the Western trend this development season by getting an untitled drama project from producers Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, who co-written this summer season’s large-screen Western getting a sci-fi twist Cowboys & Aliens. Put together through the Shield alum John Hlavin, the project is known to love a Western that notifies the roots of Wyatt Earp, chronicling both well-known occurrences within the existence such as the Gunfight within the OK Corral and lesser-known nuances of Earp and also the brothers and sisters getting order with a lawless frontier. UTA-repped Hlavin, which has a component Western, The Gunslinger, in development at Warner Bros, introduced the project to Kurtzman and Orci. The Three will executive produce with Louise Kadin for last century Fox TV and Kurtzman and Orci’s K/O Paper Products. This marks K/O’s return to Fox, in which the organization had two high-profile drama aircraft aircraft pilots last season, Locke & Key and Exit Strategy, neither that have been acquired to series. That is Kurtzman and Orci’s second purchase this season, carrying out a script plus penalty commitment at CBS with an Anna Fricke-written drama of a congresswoman advocate. The Hlavin project joins a slew of Westerns in rise in the broadcast systems. NBC posseses an untitled Kerry Ehrin project occur the 1880s, that's produced by Sean Hayes’ Hazy Mills ABC has Ron Moores Hangtown, occur the very first 1900 and David Zabels Gunslinger. In addition, TNT recently gave a cast-contingent pilot order to Bruce C. McKenna and Danny Cannons Gateway, occur the 1880s. Round the comedy side, Fox has bought The Truly Amazing Existence, only one-camera comedy project by stand-up comedian/author Carlos Kotkin and author Justin Sternberg (The Paul Reiser Show), that's being produced by 20th TV and also the other studio pod, Chernin Entertainment. Loosely based on Kotkin’s approaching book Please God Ensure It Is Herpes, an amount of short tales in regards to the frequently awkward dating situations Kotkin finds themselves in, the comedy is about a guy whose ongoing optimism always lands him in unforeseen and humorous difficulties. Chernin, Katherine Pope and Kaira Mendelsohn of Circle of Confusion, which handles Kotkin, are executive creating. Steinberg is to apply WME.