A Fistful of Dollars, the 1964 Spaghetti Western that helped catapult Clint Eastwood to stardom, is being turned into a television series.
According to Deadline, the project is being spearheaded by The Mark Gordon Company, which acquired the rights to the film, and Game of Thrones' Bryan Cogman is on board to pen the series.
Directed by Sergio Leone, A Fistful of Dollars is the first in the Eastwood-starring "Dollars Trilogy," which also includes For a Few Dollars More and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. The film centers on Eastwood's unnamed characters (referred to as "Joe" or the Man With No Name), a lone gunslinger who pits a sleepy town's rival gangs against one another in an attempt to eliminate them both.
The film was originally titled Il Magnifico Straniero but was changed to A Fistful of Dollars by Leone in his effort to springboard what would become the Spaghetti Western genre. It was heavily influenced by Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo, and despite early skepticism, it's since become a critical darling.
At the time of this writing, the Fistful of Dollars series has no cast or prospective premiere date.
Source: Deadline