The Color of Lightning Movie Cast, Plot and Everything to Know

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Last modified: Dec. 11, 2009

The Color of Lightning

Screenwriter: Larry McMurtry • Diana Ossana

N/A Drama N/A

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Story selection and rights acquired; idea being crafted into usable script; financing and casting attachments sought; aiming for 'greenlight'.

December 11, 2009

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Plot

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Plot: After freed slave Britt Johnson moves his family to Young County, TX at the end of the Civil War, his family and neighbors are attacked by Comanche and Kiowa, with many of them being taken captive. While Britt waits through the winter before he can set out to rescue his wife and children, Samuel Hammond, a Quaker man preaching nonviolence and an agrarian lifestyle gets sent to the region to be the new Indian Agent. The contrast between Johnson, a pragmatic man of action, and Hammond, an idealist who struggles with the ambiguities of reality, echoes the history of a period when government programs and westward expansion collided, ruinously, with Native cultures.

Drama Western

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Crew Behind the Film

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The film's writer Larry McMurtry last wrote Joe Bell and Brokeback Mountain.

Director: —
Screenwriters: Larry McMurtry
Diana Ossana
Producers: Michael Costigan
Ridley Scott
Tony Scott

Studios: 20th Century Studios
Production Company: Scott Free Productions

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Key Facts

Based on the novel "The Color of Lightning" by Paulette Jules.

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Dec 2009

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Parent Rating: N/A Not available
Runtime: N/A
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Language: English

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