| Remaking a MasterpieceBrothers scout Montana's Hi-Line for film based on Winter in the Bloodby Cherie Newman Two weather-beaten log cabins and a one-room pre-fab house squat among sparse prairie grasses about 50 yards from the south bank of the Milk River. The air smells like sage and dried cow dung with a hint of mud. Gray clouds are starting to drift in overhead. A dozen or so people wander around, peering through vacant window frames, inspecting scattered bits of machinery and battling persistent mosquitoes. Most of them carry cameras. This examination of the Earthboy place is just one item on the agenda of a group of filmmakers scouting for locations on the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation in northern Montana. They will also visit other home sites, meet with tribal officials, talk to local artists and teachers and hold a regional casting call at Montana State University-Northern in Havre. The idea that has brought them all here began with Ken White, actor, poet and screenwriter. “Why aren’t you making a movie of this book?” he asked his friends, Alex and Andrew Smith shortly after reading James Welch’s novel, Winter in the Blood. The Smith twins, writers and filmmakers raised in Welch’s adopted town of Missoula, were stunned by the obvious. Having grown up with James Welch as a father figure and mentor, they had a unique perspective on his work as well as a powerful emotional attachment to his stories. Maybe it was a case of overlooking the obvious. Read more here -> Blackpack |
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