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Netflix is heading to Texas, circa the 19th century, for its latest literary adaptation.
The streamer has given a straight-to-series order for a new adaptation of Larry McMurtry’s Lonesome Dove. The drama comes from Teton Ridge Entertainment — which owns the rights to McMurtry’s book and its follow-up novels — and co-showrunners Zoe Kazan and Jeb Stuart. Kazan and Stuart recently wrapped Netflix’s East of Eden limited series, based on John Steinbeck’s novel.
“After our singular experience on East of Eden, we are thrilled to be teaming with Netflix again, along with Teton Ridge Entertainment, to bring Larry McMurtry’s western classic to life,” Kazan and Stuart said in a statement. “We come to this material with love and respect, and can’t wait to hit the trail with Gus and Call and the rest of these beloved characters.”
Published in 1985, Lonesome Dove was a huge bestseller for McMurtry. It was previously adapted for an Emmy-winning 1989 CBS miniseries starring Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones.
