FX Developing 'That Texas Blood' Drama Series Based on Image Comics Neo-Noir Western
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· 2 sourcesFX is developing a television series adaptation of the neo-noir Western comic *That Texas Blood*, based on the Image Comics series by Chris Condon and Jacob Phillips. Deadline reported that Jim Mickle and E.L. Katz are writing and executive producing the project, which follows Sheriff Joe Bob Coates of Ambrose County, Texas, as he questions his place in a violent world when a man returns home after his brother's disappearance. Bleeding Cool noted that the series brings the acclaimed, bestselling comic to live-action.
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Summary
FX is developing 'That Texas Blood,' a neo-noir Western drama series based on the Image Comics series by Chris Condon and Jacob Phillips. Jim Mickle and E.L. Katz are writing and executive producing the project, which follows Sheriff Joe Bob Coates of Ambrose County, Texas, who questions his place in a violent world when a man returns home after his brother's disappearance. The series is described as Cormac McCarthy meets John Carpenter.
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· 3 pulledBilled as Cormac McCarthy meets John Carpenter, That Texas Blood is a neo-noir Western following Sheriff Joe Bob Coates of Ambrose County, Texas, who questions his place in an increasingly violent world when a man returns home following the sudden disappearance of his brother, causing a spiral down into a past filled with treachery and blood.
FX is developing That Texas Blood, a drama series from Jim Mickle and E.L. Katz, based on the critically acclaimed Image Comics series from Chris Condon and Jacob Phillips.
Mickle and Katz will write and exec produce, with Mickle al
