Netflix lassoes in a new Lonesome Dove adaptation
The ongoing series is from Zoe Kazan and Jeb Stuart, who recently adapted Steinbeck's East Of Eden for the streamer.
Netflix has acquired the rights to adapt Larry McMurtry’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Lonesome Dove into a new ongoing series. Co-showrunners and executive producers Zoe Kazan and Jeb Stuart, who recently adapted John Steinbeck’s East Of Eden for the platform, will take on the project. Kazan and Stuart, both just off East Of Eden, expressed excitement about bringing McMurtry’s western classic to life, describing themselves as "thrilled" to team up once again with Netflix.
The series will follow former Texas Rangers Captain Augustus "Gus" McCrae and Woodrow F. Call, who set out on one final cattle drive from the Rio Grande to the untamed wilderness of Montana, in pursuit of a dream they may have already outlived. The adaptation is envisioned as an ongoing series, with Kazan and Stuart hailing from the team behind the Peabody-winning series starring Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones.
After settling rights issues, Netflix secured the adaptation and announced it in April, marking a new vision for the beloved characters.
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