What ML movie should be made now?

[piperdally]

"Across the Wide Missouri" with Clark Gable primed the pan. Then like just about everyone else my age "Jeremiah Johnson" and "A Man Called Horse" triggered the flint sparking. In those days it was difficult for a teenage kid to find a ML, much less one he could afford. My father got me a second hand HR in-line for Christmas and years later I was able to finally get a TC "Hawken." Decades later came "Last of the Mohicans" which, like everything Michael Mann directs, hit the target again.
What movie could be made now to again spark interest in ML? It's a shame that the growth in ML lately has been in very modern, in-line ML designed for hunting. Perhaps some of these avid hunters eventually get interested in the history and tradition of ML, but Fish & Game aren't doing much to encourage the original intent of ML hunting season by allowing modern scopes, bullets and ignition systems. This while companies like Lyman discontinue very important models like the Great Plains Rifle.
So what movie could be made now to renew interest in traditional ML? A biopic of Kit Carson would be good. A battle pic of Adobe Walls could rival "Zulu". If Hollywood insists on diversity, there are many Native heroes to choose from as well as Jim Beckworth, a freed slave who was a mountain man, scout and explorer.
What do you think?

 

[kyron4]

A good Lewis and Clark film , historically accurate yet action packed would be a good start.

Also don't forget about "The Revenant" from a few years ago about Hugh Glass. The bear mauling was epic.

 

[Tacitus]

A Kit Carson biopic staring Lizzo as the title character with an all female cast that focuses on Kit's struggles with body positivity in a world of bigoted white male oppressors of strong black lesbians, and Kit's fierce heartfelt defense of the earth friendly, gentle, kind hearted, peace loving plains Indians. "Based on a true story."
No thanks! If it comes out of Hollywood it is sure to be just more pure male bovine extrusion that has come to be the signature product of that woke, pseudo-artistic, steaming dung heap of runny excrement known as Hollywood.

 

[piperdally]

A Kit Carson biopic staring Lizzo as the title character with an all female cast that focuses on Kits struggles for body positivity in a world of bigoted white male oppressors of strong black lesbians, and Kit's fierce heartfelt defense of the earth friendly, gentle, kind hearted, peace loving plains Indians.

Man, I hope no one in Hollywood is reading this, because they just might do it. LOL

 

[Steve Wagner]

How about one on the Donner Party called Pot Luck
Starring Jeffrey Dahmer, Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi. Cameos by husband Paul and Hammer Wielding Lover Boy in briefs.
With a promise of no sequel, it will be a huge hit.
SW

 

[Steve Wagner]

Seriously though, I think Andrew Garcia's, Rough Trip Through Paradise, would make a great movie. Might be a little late in time but I think there were still a lot of ML's in use where he was near the Mussleshell River etc. in MT. SW

 

[necchi]

What movie could be made now to again spark interest in ML?

Nothing.
It would have to be a video game. (that comes with upgrades) Period.

 

[Comfortably_Numb]

I'm not interested in anything hollywierd makes anymore. I'll pass.

 

[piperdally]

I'm not interested in anything hollywierd makes anymore. I'll pass. I know what you mean.

I know what you mean. Turns out half the people in Victorian England weren't English and Seal Team Six is lead by a super model who can't run. Oh, and Cleopatra is a Nubian (not Greek, like the real Cleopatra). Hollywoke just plain sucks.

 

[Kansas Jake]

Hollywood has always been entertainment not history. Historical facts in a movie are more of an accident than intentional. It probably has been that way since ”The Great Train Robbery” and before. Not much different than Shakespeare or even Greek tragedies.

 

[gidaddy]

"Across the Wide Missouri" with Clark Gable primed the pan. Then like just about everyone else my age "Jeremiah Johnson" and "A Man Called Horse" triggered the flint sparking. In those days it was difficult for a teenage kid to find a ML, much less one he could afford. My father got me a second hand HR in-line for Christmas and years later I was able to finally get a TC "Hawken." Decades later came "Last of the Mohicans" which, like everything Michael Mann directs, hit the target again.
What movie could be made now to again spark interest in ML? It's a shame that the growth in ML lately has been in very modern, in-line ML designed for hunting. Perhaps some of these avid hunters eventually get interested in the history and tradition of ML, but Fish & Game aren't doing much to encourage the original intent of ML hunting season by allowing modern scopes, bullets and ignition systems. This while companies like Lyman discontinue very important models like the Great Plains Rifle.
So what movie could be made now to renew interest in traditional ML? A biopic of Kit Carson would be good. A battle pic of Adobe Walls could rival "Zulu". If Hollywood insists on diversity, there are many Native heroes to choose from as well as Jim Beckworth, a freed slave who was a mountain man, scout and explorer.
What do you think?

I could see denzel Washington as Jim beckworth! He was great in Glory!

 

[Mulebrain]

How about one on the Donner Party called Pot Luck
Starring Jeffrey Dahmer, Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi. Cameos by husband Paul and Hammer Wielding Lover Boy in briefs.
With a promise of no sequel, it will be a huge hit.
SW

LOL

This scene cracks me up!

 

[Frontier's]

"Across the Wide Missouri" with Clark Gable primed the pan. Then like just about everyone else my age "Jeremiah Johnson" and "A Man Called Horse" triggered the flint sparking. In those days it was difficult for a teenage kid to find a ML, much less one he could afford. My father got me a second hand HR in-line for Christmas and years later I was able to finally get a TC "Hawken." Decades later came "Last of the Mohicans" which, like everything Michael Mann directs, hit the target again.
What movie could be made now to again spark interest in ML? It's a shame that the growth in ML lately has been in very modern, in-line ML designed for hunting. Perhaps some of these avid hunters eventually get interested in the history and tradition of ML, but Fish & Game aren't doing much to encourage the original intent of ML hunting season by allowing modern scopes, bullets and ignition systems. This while companies like Lyman discontinue very important models like the Great Plains Rifle.
So what movie could be made now to renew interest in traditional ML? A biopic of Kit Carson would be good. A battle pic of Adobe Walls could rival "Zulu". If Hollywood insists on diversity, there are many Native heroes to choose from as well as Jim Beckworth, a freed slave who was a mountain man, scout and explorer.
What do you think?

The great plains rifle is still made by the folks that have always made it... Investarm .. it's called the Gemmer Hawken.

Lyman literally made no muzzleloader, just put their name on it. Same as cabelas used to do and many many others.

 

[TDM]

I'm not interested in anything hollywierd makes anymore. I'll pass.

Agree. It’s a shame, but I don’t believe the current movie industry is capable of making a movie worth watching.

 

[Enfield58]

I think that they should do another movie about Robert Rogers; a truthful movie. Like Benedict Arnold, he had many talents. However, he lacked humility.

That eventually became his downfall. Nevertheless, the movie, "Northwest Passage" was one of those cinematic classics that taught me that history was not a dry and boring subject.

This gentlemen has a good critique of "Northwest Passage." Another movie that should be made is one on King Phillip's war 1675-1676. There are so many twists and turns in that war a good script writer could turn that into a classic.

 

[2 shots]

anything that does not have trapdoor flintlocks.

 

[Sam squanch]

The story of William Ellison’s grandson- a free black man who fought for the confederacy……. The Wayans brothers might pull it off…..

 

[RanchRoper]

Not much chance of anything done well by mainstream Hollywood, but something from a Native American perspective of the era would be interesting, or a good Daniel Boone saga too.

 

[Absoroka]

A decent remake of Across the Wide Missouri or The Big Sky would be fun.

 

[Frontier's]

Scalp hunters