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In 1987, Sergio Leone contacted his old collaborators Sergio Donati and Fulvio Morsella, pitching an idea for a TV miniseries about a Colt revolver that passed from owner to owner throughout the Old West, similar to Anthony Mann's film Winchester ' 73 ( 1950 ).

Donati indicated that Leone was interested in a more revisionist take on the genre than his earlier works, wanting to show the Old West " like it really was.

" Leone abandoned this project in favor of A Place Only Mary Knows, though Donati wrote a treatment and the project remained in gestation for years after Leone's death.