- Netflix is set to produce a series adaptation of the Western novel “Lonesome Dove,” originally brought to screen in 1989 starring Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones.
- The original series, watched by 26 million people, starred Robert Duvall, Diane Lane, and Anjelica Huston, with the plot following retired Texas Rangers on a perilous cattle drive from the Rio Grande to Montana.
Netflix is to produce a series adaptation of ‘Lonesome Dove,’ the Western novel that was first brought to screen in a hit 1989 adaptation starring Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones.
Tudum, the official companion website of Netflix, named the showrunners as Zoe Kazan and Jeb Stuart, also behind the Netflix adaptation of John Steinbeck’s novel “East of Eden,” available from October 1.
No planned release date for the remake or possible casting has been announced.
Tudum summarized the plot of “Lonesome Dove” and the new series as follows: “The epic drama follows Gus McCrae and Woodrow Call, retired Texas Rangers who embark on one final, perilous cattle drive from the Rio Grande to the untamed wilderness of Montana.”
Duvall, who died in February at the age of 95, played August “Gus” McCrae in the original adaptation. Diane Lane and Anjelica Huston also starred in the hit series. Duvall said the shoot had been one of the highlights of his life. According to US trade publication Variety, 26 million people watched the series.
The novel by US author Larry McMurtry (1936-2021) was published in 1985 and won the prestigious Pulitzer Prize the following year. McMurtry and his co-writer Diana Ossana won the Golden Globe and the Oscar for their screenplay adaptation of “Brokeback Mountain” in 2006.
