ROTTEN TOMATOES: Mangold Climbs Aboard the "3:10 to Yuma"

Mangold Climbs Aboard the "3:10 to Yuma"

by Scott Weinberg | February 21, 2006

"Walk the Line" director James Mangold has his next project ready to roll. It's a remake of the 1957 western "3:10 to Yuma," which he'll be putting together with producer/spouse Cathy Konrad.

According to Variety, ""Walk the Line" director James Mangold and his wife, producer Cathy Konrad, have set the Columbia Pictures remake "3:10 to Yuma" as the next film he'll direct. Pic will shoot in the summer.

Mangold and Konrad boarded "Yuma" after getting a new draft from "Collateral" scribe Stuart Beattie, who rewrote scripts from Michael Brandt and Derek Haas.

The original 1957 Western, starring Glenn Ford and Van Heflin, is about a sheriff determined to bring a captured desperado to justice. Elmore Leonard wrote the short story on which it was based.

"There are a lot of good-bad themes that were only touched on in the original," Mangold said. "A lot of Westerns are meditative, but this is a total struggle culminating in a showdown, which has the potential to be one of the great movie gunfights."

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Mangold's other films include "Identity," "Girl, Interrupted," "Kate & Leopold," and "Cop Land."

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Movie:	3:10 to Yuma
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	James Mangold
	Van Heflin
	Glenn Ford
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	Derek Haas

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chazbow writes:
on Feb 21 2006 08:57 AM

[b]Walter Hill should be directing[/b]
Sounds like a project Walter Hill would have been perfect for.

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lovelykeira writes:
on Feb 21 2006 11:38 AM

It's been awhile since there's been a kick ass western, and Mangold's definitely good enough to do it.

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cowsfan writes:
on Feb 21 2006 09:21 PM

Mangold seems to be on a Western kick these days. After the Country-western biopic of 'Johnny Cash' to a Western. I don't usually like remakes but with a script by Stewart Beattie and direction from Mangold this could be great.

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