Post by Okwes on Oct 31, 2006 11:00:44 GMT -5
Dreamworks to film Navajo nation's war?
www.filmstalker.co.uk/archives/2006/10/dreamworks_to_film_navajo_\
nati.html
<http://www.filmstalker.co.uk/archives/2006/10/dreamworks_to_film_navajo\
_nati.html>
[NavajoReservation.jpg] There are many untold tales, or indeed mistold
tales, of our past, and perhaps one of the greatest is that of the
taking of America and the destruction of the American Indians and their
way of life. Now Dreamworks looks set to try and tell that story after
acquiring the rights to an epic book that tells the story of the
destruction of the Navajo nation.
According to Variety through Coming Soon
<http://comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=17223> , Dreamworks have
purchased the rights to Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West
<http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2F\
http://www.amazon.com%2FBlood-Thunder-Epic-American-West%2Fdp%2F0385507771%2Fsr\
%3D8-1%2Fqid%3D1161937626%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dbooks&tag=filmstalker-21&lin\
kCode=ur2&camp=1634&creative=6738>
[http://www.assoc-amazon.co.uk/e/ir?t=filmstalker-21&l=ur2&o=2] which
chronicles the war between the Navajo nation and the white man from the
1820's until the late 1860's.
The editorial review from Publishers Weekly on Amazon.com
<http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2F\
http://www.amazon.com%2FBlood-Thunder-Epic-American-West%2Fdp%2F0385507771%2Fsr\
%3D8-1%2Fqid%3D1161937626%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dbooks&tag=filmstalker-21&lin\
kCode=ur2&camp=1634&creative=6738>
[http://www.assoc-amazon.co.uk/e/ir?t=filmstalker-21&l=ur2&o=2] covers
the story far better than I could write it:
Sides depicts the complex role of whites in the subjugation of the
Navajos through his portrait of Kit Carson-an illiterate trapper,
soldier and scout who knew the Native Americans intimately, married two
of them and, without blinking, participated in the Indians'
slaughter...Of course, as counterpoint to the progress of Carson and
other whites, Sides details the fierce but doomed defense mounted by the
Navajos over long decades. This culminated in their final, desperate
"stand" during 1863 at Canyon de Chelly, more than a decade after a
contingent of federal troops-operating under a commander whose last name
of "Washington" seems ironic in this context-killed their great leader,
Narbona.
That certainly does suggest a tough and uncompromising look at these
times. I wonder if it's something that will be watered down on the route
to becoming a film, or whether there will be a stronger non-US desire to
see a film like this. Where do you come from and how do you feel about
seeing a story such as this, perhaps the closest to actual events of
young America that we've seen to date?
www.filmstalker.co.uk/archives/2006/10/dreamworks_to_film_navajo_\
nati.html
<http://www.filmstalker.co.uk/archives/2006/10/dreamworks_to_film_navajo\
_nati.html>
[NavajoReservation.jpg] There are many untold tales, or indeed mistold
tales, of our past, and perhaps one of the greatest is that of the
taking of America and the destruction of the American Indians and their
way of life. Now Dreamworks looks set to try and tell that story after
acquiring the rights to an epic book that tells the story of the
destruction of the Navajo nation.
According to Variety through Coming Soon
<http://comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=17223> , Dreamworks have
purchased the rights to Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West
<http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2F\
http://www.amazon.com%2FBlood-Thunder-Epic-American-West%2Fdp%2F0385507771%2Fsr\
%3D8-1%2Fqid%3D1161937626%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dbooks&tag=filmstalker-21&lin\
kCode=ur2&camp=1634&creative=6738>
[http://www.assoc-amazon.co.uk/e/ir?t=filmstalker-21&l=ur2&o=2] which
chronicles the war between the Navajo nation and the white man from the
1820's until the late 1860's.
The editorial review from Publishers Weekly on Amazon.com
<http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2F\
http://www.amazon.com%2FBlood-Thunder-Epic-American-West%2Fdp%2F0385507771%2Fsr\
%3D8-1%2Fqid%3D1161937626%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dbooks&tag=filmstalker-21&lin\
kCode=ur2&camp=1634&creative=6738>
[http://www.assoc-amazon.co.uk/e/ir?t=filmstalker-21&l=ur2&o=2] covers
the story far better than I could write it:
Sides depicts the complex role of whites in the subjugation of the
Navajos through his portrait of Kit Carson-an illiterate trapper,
soldier and scout who knew the Native Americans intimately, married two
of them and, without blinking, participated in the Indians'
slaughter...Of course, as counterpoint to the progress of Carson and
other whites, Sides details the fierce but doomed defense mounted by the
Navajos over long decades. This culminated in their final, desperate
"stand" during 1863 at Canyon de Chelly, more than a decade after a
contingent of federal troops-operating under a commander whose last name
of "Washington" seems ironic in this context-killed their great leader,
Narbona.
That certainly does suggest a tough and uncompromising look at these
times. I wonder if it's something that will be watered down on the route
to becoming a film, or whether there will be a stronger non-US desire to
see a film like this. Where do you come from and how do you feel about
seeing a story such as this, perhaps the closest to actual events of
young America that we've seen to date?