New Line Cinema has acquired Michael Gunn’s screenplay The Virginian, which is described as “a formative period action thriller about Founding Father George Washington before he found his place in defiance of the British Army.”
Deadline reports that the project is “Last Of The Mohicans meets Braveheart” and follows “a down-and-out, young George Washington — desperate to join the British Army — accepts a dangerous mission to conquer a French fort and save the American colonies.”
The Virginian isn’t the only George Washington project on the horizon, with Red Granite developing The General from screenwriters Bill Collage and Adam Cooper, with a view to having Martin Scorsese direct and Leonardo DiCaprio star.
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Originally published September 26, 2015. Updated April 14, 2018.
