Filmmaker Simon Wincer has signed up to direct the sequel to Kevin Costner's Oscar-winning Dances With Wolves. "The Holy Road" will focus on the Comanche tribe of Native Americans' decline, 11 years after the events featured in "Dances With Wolves."

Wincer knows his way around a western - he also directed cult TV mini-series Lonesome Dove.

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Val Kilmer, Steve Zahn, Rachel Griffiths, Karl Urban, Linda Cardellini, Elizabeth Banks and Wes Studi star in "Comanche Moon," a new six-hour mini-series based on the book by Larry McMurtry.

The book is a the prequel to McMurtry's bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning book, "Lonesome Dove," which was the basis for the multiple Emmy Award-winning mini-series "Lonesome Dove," to be broadcast Sunday, Dec. 30, Tuesday, Jan. 1 and Wednesday, Jan. 2 (9:00-11:00 PM, ET/PT each night) on CBS.

"Comanche Moon," the last book in the "Lonesome Dove" saga to be made into a movie, follows Tex...