Netflix Orders ‘Lonesome Dove’ Series From Zoe Kazan & Jeb Stuart Based On Larry McMurtry’s Novel

Larry McMurtry’s classic Lonesome Dove novel is returning to television as a Netflix series. The streamer has greenlighted the Western drama from Zoe Kazan and Jeb Stuart, co-showrunners of Netflix’s upcoming East of Eden limited series, and Teton Ridge Entertainment. Independent studio Teton Ridge Entertainment, which focuses on American West stories, announced in February that it had acquired the rights to the Lonesome Dove literary franchise for film and television. It brought in Kazan and Stuart to write the adaptation and took the package out in late April. By early May, in a very competitive situation, Lonesome Dove had laded...