I love a good western - I especially love the dust capers fixing on Wyatt Earp and his sickly buddy, Doc Holliday (for my money, I gets no better than Dennis Quaid in the criminally underrated "Wyatt Earp", though Val Kilmer also deserves praise for his turn in "Tombstone").

There have been plenty of cinematic tales that feature Holliday ("Gunfight at the O.K Corral", "Hour of the Gun" and, to cite more recent examples, "Tombstone" and "Wyatt Earp"), but by-and-large, they're mostly concerned with Earp.

Producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura ("Transformers", "G.I Joe", the upcoming "Beverly Hills Cop 4") will captain the Chad St. John-written action adventure "The Further Adventures of Doc Holliday" for Paramount. The film, which Variety says will more in the mould of a "Pirates of Carribbean" than a "Wyatt Earp", is being designed to be a big western tentpole for the studio.

John Henry "Doc" Holliday (August 14, 1851 – November 8, 1887) was an American dentist, gambler and gunfighter of the American Old West, who is usually remembered for his friendship with Wyatt Earp and the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral. Shortly after beginning his dental practice in Dallas, Texas, Holliday was diagnosed with tuberculosis (generally called "consumption" in that era). It is possible he contracted the disease from his mother, as tuberculosis was not known to be contagious until 1882. He was given only a few months to live, but thought moving to the drier and warmer southwestern United States might reduce the deterioration of his health. Holliday succumbed to the disease at age 36; his reputed last words were "Well I'll be damned. This is funny."