From: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org (shindell-list-digest) To: shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: shindell-list-digest V8 #74 Reply-To: shindell-list@smoe.org Sender: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk shindell-list-digest Wednesday, May 10 2006 Volume 08 : Number 074 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [RS] my post from March '99 [Adam Plunkett ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 09 May 2006 08:32:32 -0400 From: Adam Plunkett Subject: Re: [RS] my post from March '99 From the archives about the film that never was and Costner being in it. http://www.smoe.org/lists/shindell-list/v02.n142 On Monday, May 08, 2006, at 09:28PM, Norman Johnson wrote: >Here's my post from March '99... no mention of Costner. > >Norman > > >After the New Year's show at the Calvin, I spoke with Richard and told him >how much I liked the song and the book and asked him whether he knew of any >movies based upon YM&F. He said "Funny you should mention that.." and >proceeded to tell me that Sherman Alexie (who wrote Smoke Signals) >approached him after a CCC show and told him that he was writing the >screenplay for YM&F! > >While browsing in a bookstore a couple of days ago, I saw a magazine called >Biblio: Exploring the world of books. The cover story of this issue (March >99) is on Sherman Alexie--so I bought it. Worth reading! > >On p. 28, it discusses the two screenplay adaptations he's working >on---here's what it says about YM&F > > The second, for Warner Brothers, is inspired by Norman Maclean's _Young >Men and Fire_ (1992), an award-winning book based upon the true story of a >1949 wildfire in mOntana that killed thirteen paratrooping firefighters. >Alexie has expressed a desire to work on projects as Sherman Alexie the >writer, not Sherman Alexie the American Indian writer--"everything I'm >going to say is going to be directly influenced by my Indianness >anyway"-and the Warner Brothers film satisfies that wish and goes farther. >He was brought in "for both reasons: because I'm a goodscreenwriter but >also because I bring something to the table--an Indian sensibility, which >is not present in Hollywood'. And though Maclean's characters are white, >some of them will be made into Indians in the movie, "Which is great," >says Alexie, "When has anyone ever changed a white character to an >Indian?". > >Norman ------------------------------ End of shindell-list-digest V8 #74 **********************************