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Lonesome Dove is a 1985 Western novel by American writer Larry McMurtry. It is the first published book of the Lonesome Dove series and the third installment in the series chronologically. It was a bestseller and won the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. In 1989, it was adapted as a TV miniseries starring Tommy Lee Jones and Robert Duvall, which ...
- Larry McMurtry
- 1985
Lonesome Dove: The Series. Lonesome Dove is a 1989 American epic Western adventure television miniseries directed by Simon Wincer. It is a four-part adaptation of the 1985 novel of the same name by Larry McMurtry and is the first installment in the Lonesome Dove series. The novel was based upon a screenplay by Peter Bogdanovich and McMurtry.
Lonesome Dove (1989) Return to Lonesome Dove (1993) – This miniseries is set a year after the events of Lonesome Dove. The story was written by John Wilder. McMurtry was not involved in the production of this and he was not happy when CBS implied that he was a collaborator. Streets of Laredo (1995) Dead Man's Walk (1996) Comanche Moon (2008)
- Lonesome Dove was originally a much shorter screenplay. It was written 15 years earlier by Larry McMurtry and Peter Bogdonavich. It was called ‘Streets of Laredo’ and was supposed to star John Wayne as Call, Jimmy Stewart as Gus, and Henry Fonda as Jake Spoon.
- Streets of Laredo sat on the shelf for about 15 years until one day, McMurtry saw an old bus that had “Lonesome Dove Baptist Church” inscribed on the side.
- The movie rights to the novel were bought by Motown, which made everyone stop and say “What’s going on?” Seems an odd fit, but not so. Suzanne de Passe, of Motown, along with Bill Wittliff, produced a masterpiece.
- Robert Duvall turned down the role of Woodrow Call so he could play Gus.
Feb 15, 2016 · They paid eight cents a pound for the steers, netting $12,000, which left the cattlemen with 700 to 800 cattle. Goodnight returned to Texas, and Loving pushed the cattle on for Colorado, past Las Vegas and Raton, and to Denver, where Loving sold the cattle to John W. Iliff. The next year, Goodnight and Loving organized another drive.
May 1, 2009 · Revisiting Lonesome Dove. by Johnny D. Boggs | May 1, 2009 | Art, Guns and Culture. Two decades ago, my fellow reporters and I were sitting in the Dallas Times Herald offices–or maybe we were in a sleazy bar near the newsroom–debating the casting of the forthcoming miniseries Lonesome Dove. Nobody had any problem with Robert Duvall.
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Apr 22, 2020 · by Johnny D. Boggs | Apr 22, 2020 | Features & Gunfights. In 1985, when contemporary novelist Larry McMurtry’s ambitious epic Old West novel Lonesome Dove was published, the romantic, idyllic portrayal of the American cowboy, cattle drives and Texas had been replaced with the anti-Western, modern Western heroes (Clint Eastwood’s Dirty Harry ...
