NBC’s The Sixth Gun Finds Its Lead

The Ruins star Laura Ramsey has landed the role of Becky Montcrief on the NBC pilot The Sixth Gun, a supernatural Western based on the Oni Press series by Cullen Bunn and Brian Hurtt, Deadline reports. The network ordered the Carlton Cuse-produced project last month.

Set in the American West in the aftermath of the Civil War, the comic centers around six pistols of otherworldly power. The most dangerous of the weapons, the Sixth Gun of the title, vanishes, only to resurface in the hands of an innocent girl (Ramsey’s Becky Montcrief), reawakening dark forces. Villains believed long dead set their sights on the pistol, and only the gunslinger Drake Sinclair stands in their way. The Sixth Gun previously had been in development as a miniseries for NBC’s cable sibling Syfy.

Ramsey, who also had roles in The Covenant, Middle Men and Kill the Irishman, has appeared on episodes of ABC’s My Generation and AMC’s Mad Men.

The Sixth Gun pilot will be directed by Jeffrey Reiner (Wonder Woman, Friday Night Lights) from a script by Ryan Condal. Eric Gitter and Andy Borne of Closed on Mondays, the sister company of Oni Press, are executive producing.

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