Eddie Murphy is working with DreamWorks on an untitled Comedy Western that will be written by Josh Sternin and Jeffrey Ventimilia (scribes for the 2004 Holiday Comedy Surviving Christmas).
Murphy describes the Western as “a la Blazing Saddles,” the 1974 Mel Brooks film.
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Candy Moulton is a frequent contributor to the Renegade Roads column in True West Magazine. For 17 years, she edited the Western Writers of America’s Roundup Magazine; in 2012, she became WWA’s executive director. The Wyoming native leading the organization has written 13 Western history books (including the Spur-winning biography Chief Joseph), co-edited a short fiction collection and written and produced several documentary films (including the Spur-winning Oregon Trails documentary In Pursuit of a Dream).