Blood River (1991 film)

John Carpenter originally wrote the script in 1971 for John Wayne. Batjac, Wayne's company, read it in the mid 1970s and hired him to do a rewrite. He did but "never quite found out what was going on there. Maybe Wayne didn't want to do any more Westerns. I worked with Michael Wayne and Tom Kane, and they would do things like take out some of the harder action stuff, making it easier on him."^[1]

In the script the John Wayne character was an old riverboat rat who was really a U.S. Marshal searching for some criminals. He met up with another man and they went down the river, like Huckleberry Finn.^[1]

"I'd love to have had Hawks direct it but Hawks was too old," said Carpenter. "I would love to have directed it, but I don't think they would have let me."^[1]

The film was eventually shot in Calgary, Alberta in June 1990.^[2]

• Blood River at IMDb
• Blood River at the British Film Institute^{[better source needed]}
• Blood River at the TCM Movie Database (archived version)

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