A gritty new Western is set to roll out on Sunday. AMC’s Hell on Wheels looks pretty badass. Good production values and the background videos on the Web site (click the link) indicate a real effort to create a high level of historical verisimilitude (I don’t look for accuracy in movies and TV; keeps me from scalping myself…)
The AMC Web page on the series describes it thusly:
Hell on Wheels is a contemporary Western that centers on former Confederate soldier Cullen Bohannon, portrayed by Anson Mount, whose quest for vengeance has led him to the Union Pacific Railroad’s westward construction of the first transcontinental railroad. Developed by Endemol USA and produced by Entertainment One (eOne) and Nomadic Pictures, Hell on Wheels is created, written, and executive-produced by Joe and Tony Gayton (Faster, Uncommon Valor, The Salton Sea, Bulletproof). The series premieres Sun., Nov. 6 at 10/9c.
With “Hawken” coming out and now this, it looks like this Fall will offer up some solid Frontier Partisan storytelling.
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