Wyatt Earp/Doc Holiday?
I guess they kind of do it with Wyatt Earp. Every decade or so we get another film about him.
Started watching a new documentary about Wyatt Earp on Netflix and turned it off in like 15 minutes cuz uhhhh they just made a lot of shit up…
Ps my favourite answers to my question so far: - Davy Crockett - Wyatt Earp - Jack the Ripper - Rasputin
A western outlaw / hero like Billy the Kid, Jesse James or Wyatt Earp
tho a case could be made for wyatt earp
Not *precisely* what you're talking about, but Wyatt Earp kinda gets this treatment. There have been a few movies made about him, most of them are at least embroidered a bit. He was a real guy, but also a semi-syncretic figure of the mythology of The Wild West. Billy the Kid, maybe, too.Not *precisely* what you're talking about, but Wyatt Earp kinda gets this treatment. There have been a few movies made about him, most of them are at least embroidered a bit. He was a real guy, but also a semi-syncretic figure of the mythology of The Wild West. Billy the Kid, maybe, too.
Maybe a legendary cowboy like Jesse James, Wyatt Earp, etc? There aren't 100 movies about them, but there are definitely a lot (and also serials and things that predate film) and they've been heavily mythologized
Not quite the thing you're looking for, but I once wanted to write a book about Wyatt Earp in pop culture. Movies, TV shows, pulp novels...the Wyatt Earp story has been told a bunch of different ways, from gritty history to science fiction/fantasy.