Lord of the Rings veteran Karl Urban has joined the cast of the CBS miniseries Comanche Moon, a prequel to novelist Larry McMurtry's Western saga Lonesome Dove.
Ryan Merriman (Final Destination 3), Elizabeth Banks (Slither), Graham Greene (Transamerica), and Wes Studi (The New World) have also been cast. They join a lineup that includes Val Kilmer, Rachel Griffiths, and Linda Cardellini.
Comanche Moon follows Gus McCrae (Steve Zahn) and Woodrow Call (Urban) through their years as Texas Rangers as they create legends for themselves fighting the Comanche to open West Texas for settlement. In CBS's 1989 adaptation of Lonesome Dove, McCrae and Call were played by Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones, respectively.
Merriman plays Jake Spoon, a handsome flirt who is trying to learn how to become a Ranger. Robert Urich played the character in Lonesome Dove.
Banks will play Maggie Tilton, the young prostitute who loves Call. Greene will play the great Comanche warrior Buffalo Hump, and Studi will play his ally.
Production is slated to begin shortly in New Mexico.
Does anyone know who is playing the young boy Newt??