History Channel to film "Texas Rising"

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The same folks that did the HC's "Hatfields and McCoys" are going to be filming a miniseries on the early Texas Rangers this year for airing in 2015. Nothing is known regarding filming locations yet, but could be in Texas or New Mexico or South Africa (Jack Hays defeats the Zulus at Rourkes Drift?????) Rumor has it that they are looking for desert locations, which is rather interesting/perplexing since the early ranging companies generally ranged between and within 50 or so miles outside of the early Texas settlements like Bexar, Gonzales, Austin, and north to the Waco Indian village on the Brazos...none of which were in a desert until the recent drought. Oh well we can at least hope they get the weapons correct. Now if they show a LARGE force of guys in Kimball's Gonzales ranging company riding into the Alamo to join Travis, we will know we are in trouble.
 
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I'm hoping its better than the Hatfields and McCoys that the History Channel aired. They have to get the weapons dead on, the first Winchester or Remington I see I'm turning it off.
 
Well they did film H&Ms in Romania. They had handlers for all the extras who had to speak Romanian to tell the extras what to do. What really gets my goat is the producers need for desert locations. If they are going to show them fighting Comanches, the Comanches ranged throughout the Hill Country and the Llano Estacado, sometimes rough country , but decidely NOT desert country. Rumors are that it could be filmed in the Big Bend area, just the kind of remote desolate location that was NOT settled by early Texians that the Rangers protected during that time period. Kinda like John Wayne's best but highly inaccurate movie "The Searchers", where Monument Valley stood in for Texas, the use of anachronistic weapons that didn't exist during 1868, and the fact that the Comanche threat had long been removed from thr Texas plains by that time.Other than that a great performance by the Duke.
 
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Fraser (“The Mummy”) will play Billy Anderson, a Texas Ranger with Comanche Indian ties.
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Unless "Comanche Indian ties" is PCspeak for "relatives who were captured by the Comanches", I see a little plausibility problem here. The Nermernuh weren't really into fraternization with Anglo settlers.
 
Well, it may be ok as long as Kevin "worship me and we'll get along just fine" Costner isn't in it.
 
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The dullest movie ever to be filmed would have to have Kevin Costner, Nicholas Cage, and Keanu Reeves in it. I wouldn't be able to stay awake over 10 minutes. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
 
Enjoy your nap.

Costner is a 'good guy' off screen as well as on. I think he'd fit into Early Texana History very well.

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I have been keeping my Cherokee ancestry ear to the ground hoping to find out where they are going to film this miniseries and which historians will be consulting. As long as they do not use disguised trapdoor Springfelds to stand in for muzzle loaders like they did in Davey Crockett at the Alamo and the Duke at the Alamo...
 
I hope they do a better job of picking locale than they did in the Hatfield and McCoy work.

They might as well have shot the damned thing in California as the location they picked is as unlike S/W W.Va as you can get..........yeah, I'm picky, but then mayhaps they'll shoot the Texas flick with 19ll's and AR's!
 
I agree there!! Get that guy. :)
In reference to the newer Alamo movie, ok, the script could have been better and the actors chosen for their roles could have been better, but you can't fault their weapons. All were armed differently with long arms of every make, model and color under the sun, the way it should be, and that in itself made the movie worth watching.

I'm still hoping its good.
 
I visited the Alamo set with a Teamster friend during filming. It was an accurate full scale réplica of the mission and grounds. It was located near Hamilton Pool outside Austin. It burned down a few years ago. Im sure it would have been used for any Alamo scenes featuring Kimballs Immortal 32 if it still existed.
 
I created an account at thelocationguide.com, a film industry location website, and put in my 2 cents for an accurate filming location in Texas with better historians, not that anyone would listen to little old me, but maybe somebody might see my post and at least give it a thought.
Actually, my perusing of that website has given me an idea to set myself up as a "fixer", basically an expediter for all manner of film production tasks, from specialty vehicles to prop weapons supply, temporary permitting with various local and state govts, and everything in between. I have more than a little experience in that arena in the local music industry and a technical career in the past.
 
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I got an idea, someone contact the producer and have him hire all of the above responders to this thread as consultants. It will be boring as hell but at least historical correct. Designed by committee so to speak...........

Just yanking chain folks, great thread.:D
 
My friend worked on a history Channel show a few years back. I think it was the Northwest passage one. Anyway, he worked with them in California and he told me that the production money had been mostly spent on the episodes back east so he was loaning them stuff from his living history gear for many of the scenes.
It would be fun to help on one of these shows but I doubt if they would have many "acting" parts for us venerated old f##ts...
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That's the problem with knowing too much about a historical event or time period. When they make a movie or tv show the inaccuracies become glaringly obvious and take away from the experience of watching it. For example, it really bugs me to see a SAA in a movie set during the Civil War. I may not turn it off, but the enjoyment factor has definitely been turned down a few notches.

On the other hand, I enjoy watching Vikings because I don't know enough about them to spot the errors I'm sure are there.

I'm sure the assumption on the part of the producers is that most people are going to watch it without knowing the difference. As long as there are good looking actors and plenty of action no one is going to care.
 
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