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The Mark Gordon Company is developing TV series “The Barbary Coast” which will be directed and co-written by Mel Gibson.
Kurt Russell and Kate Hudson are attached to star with Gibson also set to appear in a recurring role.
Inspired by Herbert Asbury’s book about the birth of San Francisco, the show has Russel, Hudson and her brother Oliver Hudson, Gibson, Bruce Davey, Wyatt Russell and Rick Nicita on board to exec produce.
The Barbary Coast begins with The Gold Rush in 1849 which saw the biggest influx of gold-seekers, gamblers, thieves, harlots, politicians and other felonious parasites to the infant city. Thus arose a unique criminal district that for almost seventy years was the scene of more viciousness and depravity – yet at the same time possessed more glamour and intrigue – than any other area of vice and iniquity on the American continent. – via Deadilne.
