Ron Howard goes for a ‘Ride’

Seven months after winning the Oscar for directing “A Beautiful Mind,” Ron Howard finally has another movie to make.

He had planned to remake “The Alamo,” then dropped out of the project. Now he’s set to direct what his company, Imagine Entertainment, describes as a suspense story set in the Old West, based on the novel “The Last Ride” by Thomas Edison. Filming is scheduled to begin in March.

-- Lee Margulies