![]() Kind of a Sadaam Hussein deal, if you’re looking for an analogy. Get rid of an agitator while simultaneously easing the American people’s fear. But hey, there was no internet back then and since perception is reality, and because Buchanan wanted Babazorka dead anyway, he realized he could kill two birds with one stone. It was the Apaches who slaughtered the Americans, not the Navajo. This slaughter so infuriated president of the United States, James Buchanan, that he put together a crack team of Indian hunters to kill famed Navajo chief, Babazorka. This sets up a revenge tale that isn’t exactly a revenge tale. If there’s any truth to the old screenwriting axiom, “Your first 10 pages should yank the reader in,” well, consider this a proper yanking. We’re talking a giant rock being smashed into our – yes OUR – face, ending our life. We’re talking people being hacked to death right before our eyes. Hughes delivers on that promise immediately, with an intense POV scene of an Indian raid. And to turn back now if you’re squeamish. Heck, before we even get to a slugline, we’re given a warning by the author of how graphic things are about to get. I’m assuming that book at least partly inspired Hughes. You read that book and you’ll never be able to get some of those images out of your head for as long as you live. The book goes into horrifying detail about what those tribes would do when they captured whites, specifically the women, children, and babies. “Empire” taught me that while that was true in some cases, it wasn’t when it came to the more ruthless Indian tribes – the Navajo, the Apache, and the Comanche. ![]() That we ruthlessly wiped out the Native Americans as if spraying for bugs in our basement. culture that informed me that Americans were the savages. Gwynne that tells us what the American frontier was really like back in the 1800s. One of the most eye-opening books I’ve read was “ Empire of the Summer Moon,” a non-fiction account by S.C. We saw what it did for Taylor Sheridan (Sicario, Hell or High Water) and if someone’s brave enough to make Pox Ameircana, which was featured on the 2013 Black List, it should do good things for Hughes as well. But not everything goes according to plan once they accomplish their mission.Ībout: Frank John Hughes, who had parts in such films as Catch Me If You Can and shows like Band of Brothers and The Sopranos, is one of the new guard of actors changing their fortunes by writing screenplays. Premise: After a town of Americans are slaughtered by Indians, a group of Indian assassins are put together to enact revenge.
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