'Fringe' Producers, 'Shield' Scribe Sell Western to Fox

John Hlavin Hot author John Hlavin is boarding the small screen's Western train. Fox has acquired an untitled Western script within the Shield scribe Hlavin that will explore the roots of Wyatt Earp, chronicling the well-known occurrences within the existence -- like the Gunfight within the OK Corral -- additionally to particulars about his brothers and sisters getting order with a lawless frontier. PHOTOS:18 Familiar Faces of Fall TV Hlavin has offered the project for the network through last century Fox Television, which introduced in Fringe's Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci through their studio-based K/O Paper Products to executive produce the project. K/O Paper Products leader Louise Kadin may even executive produce alongside Hlavin, whose TV credits include Trust Me, Daybreak and E-Ring. Hlavin, which has the Western The Gunslingerin development at Warner Bros. Pictures, is presently penning Risk for that new the new sony Pictures and coping with DreamWorks on his untitled heist film. His large-screen credits have penning the fourth installment inside the Underworld franchise for Screen Gems. PHOTOS: Fall TV Preview 2011: The Returning Shows Kurtzman and Orci inked a 3-year overall deal with 20th Television a year ago combined with drama aircraft aircraft pilots Locke & Key and Exit Strategy setup at Fox that didn't have the series pickup in May. That is their second project this development season CBS acquired a girl-fronted drama turning around a congresswoman who fights for your underdog. Overall, the Hlavin project continues the Western trend this development season. EXCLUSIVE Q&A: Fox's Kevin Reilly on 'X Factor' Ratings, 'Terra Nova' and exactly how forward for 'Glee' TNT recently gave pilot orders to Gateway, an action-adventure occur 1880s Colorado within the Pacific's Bruce C. McKenna. ABC is developing Gunslinger from Detroit 1-8-7's David Zabel and Hogtown, a procedural pitch occur the Wild West from Battlestar Galactica's Ron Moore. CBS and GoodFellas' Nicholas Pileggi will also be planning Take advantage of Lamb good sixties adventure in the cowboy-switched-Las vegas sheriff while NBC has Take advantage of Cassidy's 1840s-set The Frontier additionally to some Western project told in the female perspective from Friday Evening Lights' Peter Berg. STORY: Saddle Up! TV Westerns Hot AMC's Union Off-shoreline Railroad 1860s Western Hell on Wheels,meanwhile, is first in the gate, premiering November. 6. Hlavin is repped by UTA and Jackoway Tyerman Wertheimer Austen Mandelbaum Morris & Klein. Email: Lesley.Goldberg@thr.com Twitter: @Snoodit The Shield Roberto Orci Alex Kurtzman TV Development