TAYLOR SHERIDAN TO HELM
EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON
As Deadline reports Yellowstone's Taylor Sheridan is to turn EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON book by S.C. Gwyne into an epic movie charting the rise and fall of the Comanches, the most powerful Indian tribe in American history.
It will depict the four-decade struggle between the Comanche tribe and white settlers to control the American West. Quanah was considered its greatest chief. Comanches were legendary fighters, with young boys able to ride horses bareback by the time they were 6 years old. They were so masterful with the bow and lance that they stopped the northern drive of colonial Spain from Mexico and halted the French expansion westward from Louisiana. Part of the story involves Quanah’s mother, Cynthia Ann Parker, who was 9 when she was kidnapped by the Comanches.
Quanah and the Comanches drove back the Spanish and French, but the settlers coming from the Eastern states were more formidable. They created the Texas Rangers and fortified them with the six gun, for which the Comanches had no answer.
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| Taylor Sheridan will helm the movie |
I hope this one is done right. I liked his Yellowstone series, but any story involving the Native Americans needs to be done with truth and respect. My best friend in elementary school was Native American and she used to take me to some of their tribal activities. One of my favorites was watching them dance in their feathered headdresses and the drums beating and yelling in their native tongue. It was just an ethereal experience. She ended up moving away by middle school, but I'll forever be grateful for the knowledge I gained from being her friend.
ReplyDeleteQuanah's mother was white so his history is also white and as far as I got it Sheridan owns a ranch on which grounds they found a lot of their relics so he is versed into the whole history and respects it allegedly. I also have a very dear Native American friend Avalon who was our blogging friend for a very long time.
DeleteI'm a bigger fan of the Apaches, but Qanah Parker is too big to be missed.
ReplyDeleteI have read somewhere that Comanche were very violent and savage.
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