Jeremy Renner is set to play John Henry ‘Doc’ Holliday in a new film. PalmStar Media has optioned the rights to two novels from Mary Doria Russell. Doc: A Novel and Epitaph: A Novel of the O.K. Corral will be developed into one film.PalmStar’s Kevin Frakes will produce with Renner and Don Handfield’s The Combine. In a joint statement, Renner and Handfield stated,
“We are excited to re-introduce this classic American character to a whole new audience by chronicling Doc Holliday’s incredible transformation from average Joe dentist to a man who Wyatt Earp called the ‘nerviest, speediest, deadliest man with a six-gun [he] ever knew.”
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