Sam Raimi saddles up for Wyatt Earp sci-fi film

Sam Raimi has signed on to direct the sci-fi/western hybrid Earp: Saints for Sinners. The film charts the adventures of legendary lawman Wyatt Earp, who finds himself transported to a ravaged future where the only remaining boomtown is Las Vegas. Earp: Saints for Sinners is an adaptation of the graphic novel from publisher Radical, and will most likely be the movie Raimi starts work on after his forthcoming Disney project Oz the Great and Powerful , a prequel to The Wizard of Oz starring Robert Downey Jr. Wyatt Earp remains an iconic figure of late 19th-century US western history, best known for his role in the gunfight at the OK Corral, alongside Doc Holliday and his brothers, Virgil and Morgan Earp. He has been depicted in film many times, most recently Tombstone and Wyatt Earp, released in 1993 and 1994 respectively. According to the Hollywood Reporter , Matt Cirulnick will write the script for the project, which is being produced at Dreamworks. The film will be officially announced on Thursday at San Diego's Comic-Con convention .