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Denzel should play Bass Reeves


one of the great lawmen of the Old West -- an escaped slave turned US Marshall, who lived with the Indians in the untamed Oklahoma territory, was a crack shot and a trick rider and a master of disguise, who brought in nearly 3,000 outlaws in his long career, without ever getting wounded himself. His reputation was so fearsome that most bandits just surrendered rather than face him -- the 15 who didn't ended up dead.

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A very bad low-budget movie was recently released about him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=Dml8ovobRA0&feature=emb_logo

Instead of recycling classics like Magnificent Seven, studios could easily find new material like a Bass Reeves movie with a larger budget.

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I saw that. Reeves killed more bad guys on his first mission in that movie than he did in his real 30 year career.

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That would be cool. Or a movie about Nat Love.

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