Lasse Hallstrom is in talks to direct Tom Hanks and Julianne Moore in
Boone's Lick, an adaptation of Larry McMurtry's novel, scripted by the author and Diana Ossana, according to Variety.
The movie is a Western in the vein of "Lonesome Dove."
Boone's Lick revolves around a headstrong woman who drags her family on a rickety wagon from Boone's Lick, Mo., to the Wyoming fort where her husband lives.
Moore will play the woman and Hanks will play her husband's brother, who escorts the woman, her four children and her father on the trek and falls in love with her during the perilous journey.