Harrison Ford is continuing with his western movie phase as he finishes Cowboys and Aliens and moves on to Black Hats.  Black Hats is more of a straightforward western without the sci-fi pieces splashed in like Cowboys and Aliens.

Instead of Aliens, the antagonists will be Al Capone’s Chicago posse during Prohibition.  Harrison Ford will play the famous cowboy Wyatt Earp, the gambling, boxing refereeing, film consultant, sheriff, and famous gunslinger of the old west.

The script is based off the novel Black Hats: A Novel of Wyatt Earp and Al Capone written by Max Allan Collins under the pen name Patrick Culhane.  Collins is mostly known for his mystery stories as well as his graphic novel Road To Perdition that was adapted for the screen in 2002 with Tom Hanks, Paul Newman, and Jude Law.

The plot of movie follows an aging Wyatt Earp, a former old west sheriff, and private eye in Los Angeles.  His old buddy Doc Holliday has died but revealed that he has a secret son in Chicago.

The son falls into trouble with Al Capone’s gang and Wyatt decides to save the young man.  Recruiting his old deputy and famous sports writer Bat Masterson, the two set out to save Holliday’s son.

Kurt Johnstad who helped write the script for 300 and has written the script for the upcoming movie The Last Photograph, began to write the script.  However, even with it in its first draft and Harrison Ford playing Wyatt Earp there is still no director to take the reigns of the project.  On a side note, Basil Iwanyk and Jason Netter are both producing the movie.

The history of Wyatt Earp is stretched just a bit in the movie by combining fact with fiction.  Wyatt considered Doc Holliday to be his best friend and Bat Masterson was his deputy in real life.  Wyatt Earp was at first a gambler but had moseyed his way into a life of law by becoming a Marshall or a Deputy in various western towns like Tombstone, Arizona, and Wichita, Kansas.

Earp became famous because of the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral where he engaged in a gunfight that lead to three outlaw cowboy’s deaths.  He was known to be the deadliest gunman of his day.  Of course, Wyatt never saved his best friend’s son from the clutches of deadly mobsters.

Harrison Ford playing Wyatt Earp seems like a match made in heaven.  With Ford’s famous scowl, his no-nonsense “badass” attitude, and his charisma it would not be surprising if Ford was Earp incarnate.

Another exciting piece of the story is that it will take place during Al Capone’s golden years.  Empire Magazine said that the movie is “a battle of Tommy guns versus six-shooters” which is an action fans dream.

With the script still being written, the movie directorless, and the only big name associated with the cast is Harrison Ford, the tone and style of the movie could go in a hundred different directions.  Even still, Harrison Ford returning to the six-shooter?  It’s a no brainer.

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Pixar started out with a bang with its first feature film Toy Story in 1995.  Shattering box office records, the animation company grew into the multi-billion dollar company it is today.  Coming out with critically acclaimed film after film, Pixar showed no signs of faltering.  Recently, there have been rumors floating around that the story of our beloved toy heroes has not concluded.

Pixar has an interesting past.   It started out as an animation studio for Lucas Films Inc. in the 1970’s.  Around the 1980’s up-and-coming computer engineer and businessman, Steve Jobs bought the company who, in 2006, sold the company for 7.4 billion dollars to Disney.  Right now, it technically is part of the Disney Empire, but most of the creative control is still in the hands of the people at Pixar.

Tom Hanks, who plays Woody in the Toy Story trilogy, recently went toured around England to promote his new movie Larry Crowne.  BBC’s own Tim Muffet caught up with Hanks to talk about his new film.  However, during the interview, the topic had rapidly switched to the Toy Story franchise when Muffet asked about a Toy Story 4.

In a fast, low tone voice with a blank expression plastered upon Hanks’ face he responded, “I think there will be, yeah. Yeah, yeah, think they’re working on it now. There you go.”  When reporters reached out to Pixar for comments, they only found closed lips and closed doors.

With Pixar not saying a peep, Toy Story 4 is not really officially a movie as of yet.  With the rumor spreading, people are beginning to get up in arms about the fourth installment.  Many moviegoers who grew up with the franchise were ready for the story to end and to them it could not have ended more perfectly with the third film.

With a fourth movie they fear that the nostalgic magic that the movie gives them will be turned to dust.  Others believe this fourth piece is just a result of a money hungry production company, knowing that they will cash in on the profits.

First off, there is a very good chance this could be a nail in the coffin for Toy Story.  Three sequels are a bit much and with their first flop with Cars 2 it raises speculation on how good it could be.  Yet, to those who doubt, look at Pixar’s track record.  For over a decade and a half Pixar has not made one single flop.

They were bound to make one bad movie sooner or later.  Pixar is known for working on projects for years: Up! took more than five years to make.  So with such a high bar for the Toy Story series, and with ample time to perfect the story, Pixar creating a bad Toy Story film should be the least of people’s troubles.

With Pixar protecting their Toy Story 4 ambitions like it was the Declaration of Independence details and idea leaks are scarce to none.  So really, Toy Story 4 could be great or terrible at this point in time.  With judgments already made about the movie, people are already showing resentment but remember, anyone can be angry, but as the old saying goes, do not count your chickens before they hatch.

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