(publ. McDowell, Obolensky)
Conquering Horse is Frederick Manfred's first novel in a five-volume series he called The Buckskin Man Tales. It tells a mythic story about Indian life on the Great Plains before the arrival of white people to the region. Film director/writer Michael Cimino and producer Michael Gruskoff attempted to adapt Manfred's novel to film,[1] but the project, which was in development at Universal in 1970,[2] was tabled in 1971 because of budget issues. At one point in 1979, he reached a deal with United Artists to make the film, under the condition Heaven's Gate was a hit. The movie bombed, so this never came to fruition either.[3]
- ^ IndieWire: "Interview: Producer Michael Gruskoff on the Foreign Language Academy Award and International Hollywood" By Carlos Aguilar Archived 2015-10-06 at the Wayback Machine June 2, 2014
- ^ Weiler, A.H. (22 February 1970). "A‐Jive in Denmark". The New York Times. Retrieved 1 August 2019.
"Conquering Horse," an Indian drama to be directed this summer by 27‐year‐old Mike Cimino
- ^ Whitney, Stu (12 December 2015). "Whitney: How 'Revenant' left Frederick Manfred behind". Argus Leader.
There was talk of "Deer Hunter" director Michael Cimino bringing "Conquering Horse" to the big screen, but the epic failure of Cimino's "Heaven's Gate," one of the biggest flops of all time, rendered that project implausible.