Three Roads to the Alamo

[bobdurham]

I just ran across this on the William C. Davis' biography site (www.civilwar.vt.edu/wcd/davis.html) and don't know whether its new information or not:

"Rights to his recent book Three Roads to the Alamo: The Lives and Fortunes of David Crockett, James Bowie, and William Barret Travis have just been sold to a motion picture production company."

I hope its something new and that it works out. Would make a great movie -- I think it would take a miniseries though, to do it justice.

[Wade Dillon]

That post on his website has been up for years, unfortunately.

[bobdurham]

Thanks Wade -- I was afraid that might be the case. Sometimes I think movie studios just buy the rights to keep other studios from using the material. Oh, well . . .

[Allen Wiener]

After the fate of the 2004 movie, no one in Hollywood is going to be anxious to do another Alamo movie. Zucker's had a script for a new Crockett film for so many years I forgot who even wrote it or when. I've said before, and will repeat, that the Hancock movie should have been a TV mini-series once they saw it was in trouble and cancelled its original release, which was scheduled for Christmas, 2003. They hacked it up, compromised and generally made a mess of it and then released it anyway. The result was goofy stuff like Bonham disappearing fromt the story, but San Jacinto staying in, and Susannah never saying a single word or even being identified. It's still a good film, but could have been soooooooooooo much better. It don't get no more shallow that it gets in Hollywood. The closest thing to it is what passes for TV "news" these days.

AW

[Don Allen]

Although "Three Roads to the Alamo" is an excellent book, I think it would be extremely difficult to make it into a decent movie. It would have to be an epic of sorts and these often come across as being contrived.

There's too much ground to cover in just one of these famous lives. Add in two more and the movie would have to be 6 hours long to even start to tell the tale.

[Kevin Young]

Got to agree with allenw. After the last film they are in no hurry. Into the West was suppose to have an Alamo related scene and it was cut because of the Handock film.