Holliday
"The West remembers Wyatt Earp.
History feared Doc Holliday."
A dying Southern dentist is forced west after tuberculosis destroys his future — where gambling, violence, loyalty, and myth slowly transform him into the most feared gunfighter in America.
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Early tone and visual exploration for HOLLIDAY.
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"Before the Diagnosis"
Georgia. Late 1860s.
Before Tombstone…
before Wyatt Earp…
before the name Doc Holliday spread across the American West…
there was John Henry Holliday.
Brilliant. Competitive. Refined. Restless.
The son of a respected Southern family rebuilding itself after the Civil War, John moves between elegance and violence with unsettling ease — studying Latin and medicine one moment, racing horses and shooting bottles from horseback the next.
As illness slowly enters the Holliday home, the future everyone imagined for him begins slipping away.
The pilot tells the story history never did:
not how Doc Holliday died…
but how John Henry Holliday disappeared.
Visual Pitch
Mood Board & Concept Visual
Tone & Vision
Prestige. Atmospheric.
Unsparing.
HOLLIDAY is not a western. It is an American character study that happens to end in the West — drawing its emotional DNA from the slow-burn intensity of Yellowstone, the moral complexity of Deadwood, the historical authenticity of Hell on Wheels, and the cinematic grief of Hostiles.
It does not romanticize the frontier. It asks what the frontier costs — and who pays the price. Every episode is built around character, atmosphere, and the slow accumulation of consequence.
Format
Limited Series · 8 Episodes
Setting
Georgia, Texas, Kansas, Arizona Territory & Colorado · 1860s–1887
Comparables
Yellowstone · Deadwood · Hostiles · 1883
Target Networks
HBO · Paramount+ · Apple TV+ · FX
Status
Pilot Script Complete · In Development
Development Status
Complete
Pilot Screenplay
Complete
Series Bible
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WGA Registration
Filed
U.S. Copyright
HOLLIDAY
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