The Color of Lightning movie production status is currently Development
December 11, 2009 • Story selection and rights acquired; idea being crafted into usable script; financing and casting attachments sought; aiming for 'greenlight'
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Plot: What's the story about?
After freed slave Britt Johnson moves his family to Young County, TX at the end of the Civil War, his family and neighbors are attacked by Comanche and Kiowa, with many of them being taken captive. While Britt waits through the winter before he can set out to rescue his wife and children, Samuel Hammond, a Quaker man preaching nonviolence and an agrarian lifestyle gets sent to the region to be the new Indian Agent. The contrast between Johnson, a pragmatic man of action, and Hammond, an idealist who struggles with the ambiguities of reality, echoes the history of a period when government programs and westward expansion collided, ruinously, with Native cultures.
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Who's making The Color of Lightning: Crew List
A look at the The Color of Lightning behind-the-scenes crew and production team. The film's writer Larry McMurtry last wrote Joe Bell and Brokeback Mountain.
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Producers
Michael CostiganRidley Scott
Tony Scott
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Production: What we know about The Color of Lightning?
Key Facts
- Based on the novel "The Color of Lightning" by Paulette Jules.
Filming Timeline
- 2009 - December: The film was set to Development status.
The Color of Lightning Release Date: When is the film coming out?
The Color of Lightning is coming out as a release To Be Announced (TBA). There are 9,433 other movies coming out on the same date, including Sesame Street, The Rosie Project and The Nightingale.