Chris Columbus to Reboot Western 'The Rifleman' at CBS

CBS is searching to create back TheRifleman with Harry Potter directorChris Columbus.our editor recommendsChris Columbus Ink Development Pact With CBS The project, which arises from Carol Mendelsohn Prods. in colaboration with CBS Television Art galleries, is founded on the 1958 classic western series of the title. Your time and energy will center onCivil War hero Lucas McCain, an unmatched sharpshooter getting a haunted past, who moves for the uncharted New Mexico territory to enhance his boy Mark. There, he joins forces while using Sheriff to guard his new town and become its unofficial protector. The script order is further evidence of TV's current romance while using western genre. Furthermore to AMC's Hell on Wheels, which opened up up to have an impressive 4.4 million audiences Sunday, TNT is planning Gateway because the systems still add projects for his or her development coffers. Proof: ABC has nabbedGunslingerfromDavid Zabel(Detroit 1-8-7)andHangtown, a procedural pitch occur the Wild West, fromBattlestar GalacticamastermindRon Moore. CBS and authorNicholas Pileggi(Good Fellas) are preparingRalph Lamb, good sixties adventures from the real-existence cowboy-switched-Las vegas sheriff, while NBC has bought a script forShaun Cassidy's 1840s-setThe Frontier. Columbus (Stepmom, Mrs. Doubtfire, Home Alone), who recently inked a 3 for starters deal with CBS, is installed on executive produce and direct the Rifleman reboot, with Laeta Kalogridis (Avatar, Shutter Island) and Patrick Lussieron board as authors and Broadened polystyrene.Joining them as executive producers areJulie Weitz and CSI's Mendelsohn, to whom this project marks a sixth network purchase this development season. Robert Levy, Steve Gardner and Arthur Gardner, that are all relatives in the original's producers Jules Levy, Arthur Gardner and Arnold Laven, may even work as producers round the project. The sale was brokered by WME and Serta Black at Greenberg Traurig. Email: Lacey.Rose@THR.com Twitter: @LaceyVRose Related Subjects CBS TV Development