Appaloosa wasn’t Robert B. Parker’s first Western; that honor goes to Gunman’s Rhapsody, his 2001 novel about Wyatt Earp and Tombstone. Yet Parker promised more stories featuring his Appaloosa characters, Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch, if the book was optioned for a film. New Line gave Appaloosa the greenlight as a feature film starring Ed Harris as the gunfighter/lawman Cole, Viggo Mortensen as his more articulate buddy Hitch and Renee Zellweger as the delightful yet deceitful Allie Fr


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