NBC Orders Pilot For ‘The Sixth Gun’ TV Adaptation

NBC has committed to a pilot for Cullen Bunn’s The Sixth Gun, a sci-fi western graphic novel series that is set during the Civil War era that puts a gunslinger up against dark forces with an innocent girl’s soul sitting in the cross hairs. The pilot will be jointly spearheaded by producer Carlton Cuse (Lost) and screenwriter Ryan Condal (Hercules: The Thracian Wars).

The comic, created by Cullen Bunn and Brian Hurtt, is described as follows:

“During the darkest days of the Civil War, wicked cutthroats came into possession of six pistols of otherworldly power. In time the Sixth Gun, the most dangerous of the weapons, vanished. When the gun surfaces in the hands of an innocent girl, dark forces reawaken. Vile men thought long dead set their sights on retrieving the gun and killing the girl. Only Drake Sinclair, a gunfighter with a shadowy past, stands in their way.”

Source: EW