Gunsmoke The Movie

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CBS Films is developing a feature reboot of "Gunsmoke" and has hired "National Treasure: Book of Secrets" writer Gregory Poirier to pen the screenplay.

The action-adventure will re-imagine Marshal Matt Dillon, the hero of the classic Western, for modern audiences. The story will serve as a prequel, exploring how the characters came to be that way. It will be set in the same American West as the original but will feature a contemporary look and modern action twists.

Poirier is said to be close to completing a first draft of the script.

"Gunsmoke," which holds the title of the longest-running primetime scripted drama (it had been the longest-running primetime series until "The Simpsons" eclipsed it this year), revolves around a number of characters in Dodge City, Kansas, at the time of westward expansion.

It focuses principally on three characters: Dillon, the crimefighting leader of Dodge; town physician Galen "Doc" Adams; and Miss Kitty Russell, owner the Long Branch Saloon. The show's plot lines revolve around dramatic, sometimes gritty, events and a fair share of outlaws and desperadoes.

This is the part that has me worried: contemporary look and modern action twists. I love westerns and will wait to see how this turns out.