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- Nov 07, 2020
My son, Gio, wanted to do a horseback trip in Mongolia, but he didn't want to do an Abercrombie & Fitch-type tour, where they show you around while you sleep in B&Bs.
- Historical
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 2007, I did a horseback trip across part of central Mongolia with my 13-year-old son - we encountered Marco Polo at all these historical places where Mongolian nomads would reference his accounts and his relationship with Kublai Khan.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being a student of Wuxia literature, I was aware 'Crouching Tiger' was book four in the 'Crane Iron Pentalogy.'
- Growing Up
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was growing up I spent a lot of time reading about ancient China and was really fascinated.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a writer of both novels and screenplays, I can say that screenwriting is a vastly rewarding creative life - if you fight hard enough to do it on your own terms. Whether I write books or not, my screenwriting life has been creatively rewarding and remains so.
- Reading
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have seen too many screenwriters of promise become formula addicts and slaves to stop watch structure. Spend that time watching movies, reading screenplays, reading plays, and most importantly - write from your gut.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
In many ways, it's easier to write a book. You have more latitude with structure, and you have the freedom to luxuriate within the internal lives and musings of your characters. But where a screenplay does not always demand great prose, a novel lives or dies by it.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel that Marco Polo has really been misrepresented - has never really gotten his due.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're not just making 'Marco Polo,' we're living it. Because we traveled to Venice... Kazakhstan... into the jungles of Malaysia.
- Come
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- Nov 07, 2020
Twelve years ago, when I was on the Pine Ridge Reservation for 'Thunderheart,' I was dong research into Native American horses that had come into extinction. I was tracing certain Lakota bloodlines, and it became an obsession.
- Fool
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was interviewing an elder, Chief Fool's Crow, who was the ceremonial chief. He was 103 years old. I was getting his information on the history of Lakota horses. He told me the story of Hidalgo and Frank Hopkins.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started looking into horse history books and came across the actual story of this half-breed endurance horseman and his painted mustang Hidalgo. I wasn't really sure if I was going to do the movie at that point.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in the unlikely place of Connecticut. The Eastern Woodlands. It was semi-rural where I grew up. I was fascinated by the Piqua and the Mohegan Indians of that area.
- Legend
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wrote 'Young Guns' on spec because I really believed that the young age of these guys historically, the whole legend of Billy dying at 21, would attract a young staple of stars, and that would be the game-changer.
- Horse
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- Nov 07, 2020
With the Mongolian horse warfare, I did a lot of research into the Mongol art of war.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being on the ground in Mongolia and traveling with the horse culture and sleeping in yurts, I was able to pick up a lot of detail. But I brought in advisors to work with our horse master to make sure the fighting strategies both on the Chinese and Mongolian sides were very accurate.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
It all goes back to 'Wow, I never knew this about Marco Polo.' This is an incredible story and an incredible character, and such a rich world of Mongolian and Chinese culture.
- Hero
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- Nov 07, 2020
The journey of Marco Polo is the hero's journey, one that all cultures across the globe can relate to.
- Back
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- Nov 07, 2020
It always circled back around to Marco Polo and Kublai Khan. That always fascinated me because so few people make the connection between the two.
- Cloud
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- Nov 07, 2020
Marco Polo has been kind of buried under this cloud of rather banal historical dust, when the true story is so much more exciting.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got the feeling: It's time to do a Marco Polo story. I felt like everything was lining up right because long-form television series were becoming to me like the new great American novel.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When people hear the name 'Marco Polo,' they tend to think of a map or explorer. Very few people know the true story of Marco Polo, and it's so much more compelling and exciting than the mythology.
- Connection
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- Nov 07, 2020
He was an Italian kid traveling in China, and I'm of Italian decent with a fascination for China. So, I always felt this connection to him and lived vicariously through the travels of Marco Polo.
- Nov 07, 2020
I have spent time in Mongolia, in China.
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- Nov 07, 2020