Liam Neeson and Woody Harrelson will Hunt Down Bonnie & Clyde

Liam Neeson and Woody Harrelson are looking to star in a new film called Highwaymen. They will play the two Texas Rangers that hunted and killed the popular Depression Era bank robbers Bonnie and Clyde.

John Lee Hancock (The Blind Side) is set to directed the film from a script written by John Fusco (Hidalgo, Young Guns). The drama "focuses on legendary lawman Frank Hamer, who was coaxed by a consortium of banks to assemble a posse and end the robbery reign of Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow in the 1930s." Hamer was an old-school Texas Ranger that killed 52 people and survived over 100 gunfights. He set his sights on Bonnie and Clyde after their gang organized a jail break and killed a guard.

This sounds like it will be a very cool movie, and Frank Hamer is sure to make a fantastic character on the big screen. I've always been fascinated by the crime phase during the depression era, and I'm excited to see that this movie is getting made.

I remember my great grandma telling me a story of how she met Bonnie and Clyde when she was a little girl. She was sitting in front of a store when they drove up in their car, she said Bonnie patted her on the head and introduced herself as Bonnie and the man as Clyde. She proceeded to ask for my great grandmas name, which she gave, and then they walked into the store. When they came back out Bonnie handed her a sucker, said goodbye, got in their car and drove away. She said Bonnie was one of the nicest and most beautiful women she ever met. She was sad when she found out they had been killed. Later in life my great grandma ended up naming her own daughter Bonnie. I always that that was cool, so I thought I'd share.

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