"John Adams" scribe turns to polygamy project - Escape to be a movie
Thought: Hopefully the producers of the up coming movie check into Carolyn's life a bit more than the book and read the 400 or so pages removed from the book - you know the parts about going to Disneyland, going to college, running a business,ie. the stuff that got left out of the ESCAPE book.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/televisionNews/idUSTRE4B71CZ20081208
By Borys Kit
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Kirk Ellis, the Emmy-winning scribe of the HBO miniseries "John Adams," has been hired to write "Escape," starring Katherine Heigl.
The independently financed project tells the true story of Carolyn Jessop, who after years of being in a forced polygamous marriage escaped from the Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints with her eight children. Ellis will adapt Jessop's book.
Ellis' credits also include the TNT miniseries "Into the West" and ABC's "Anne Frank: The Whole Story."
Little to do
Escape has little to do with the truth. Period. Dot.
Escape On Steroids
When it comes to Hollywood and the enterntainment industry producers look for profit and what will sell...Sounds like Carolyn's book was edited to sell. Her daughter went back to the home that she loved...how bad could that be? There's usually two sides to a story, one that can be marketed for a profit and the other, the boring truth...
Future Flick?
I read David McCullough's work before HBO made a mini-series--Loved the book, have yet to see the movie.
I loved Into the West. Hope that the one on the drawing board is as good as the previous works.
don't underestimate
Never underestimate the tainting power of bigotry. Humans are flawed, so never underestimate mankind's ability to fopaw something as simple as polygamy.
Yes, I agree. It has been my
Yes, I agree. It has been my experience the media has an agenda.
I lived near Hilldale for a few years and knew a few people from that town including a Jessop family. We used to shop at their supermarket, and buy the best Pepper Jack Cheese I have ever had at the dairy there. They were evicted over issues that were not talked about, even by their children who were nearer to my own age. Their only comment was Dad didn't want more than one wife.
I can imagine a woman in Short Creek (crik) feeling it impossible to "escape" where television and radio is banned to prevent members from seeing what the rest of the world offers. Women should never be coerced into becoming sister wives nor be forced to remain in a polygamist arrangement or marriage. Also, what needs to be said the loudest above all the *din* and noise is, this was a COMMUNE not a free society. Still, women came and went all the time to Hurricane, Washington City, and St. George to do shopping and hunt for bargains at yard sales.
That said, however, I am certain the movie will be nothing close to the truth, except where the truth holds to the medias agenda which seeks to castrate society of its patriarchs.