Why won’t someone just write a movie about Daniel Boone or Theodore Roosevelt?

John’s screenplay for Daniel Boone is one of the best scripts I’ve ever read. Then there’s his fantastic unproduced Curtis LeMay screenplay (languishing in turnaround). Then there’s his powerful unproduced Genghis Khan screenplay (don’t get me started on that one). The list of brilliant unproduced Milius scripts goes on and on. Some of the greatest screenwriting ever done, written by this one man who no one would deny is one of the best writers of all time, is sitting in drawers unmade by vastly lesser men who control the rights.

@AVARY @RogueScholarPr @AmandaMilius Genghis Khan sounds amazing

@AVARY @AmandaMilius Exactly. And don’t forget Crown of Iron.

@AVARY @AmandaMilius Very unfortunate. Don't the screenwriters get the rights back within two years or so on average?

@AVARY @AmandaMilius Spielberg never tried to direct the LeMay script? I don’t know the business side like you both do obviously but that seems like a no brainer.

@AVARY @AmandaMilius Sounds like a great project for @AngelStudiosInc

@AVARY @AmandaMilius Vastly lesser men is the key phrase. I am a published author and also work as a producer/writer (and sometime actor) in indie films. Studio decision makers really are “emperors without clothes.” They are not nearly as smart in storytelling as we presume they are given their role.

@AVARY @AmandaMilius Curtis LeMay? Wonder how that movie would do internationally.

@AVARY @Steve_Sailer @AmandaMilius Milius wanted to do a surfing TV show with a buddy of mine. He’s the best.

@AVARY @AmandaMilius And this is where we're going to see Ai change things. I know it's definitely not as easy as the public thinks, but Ai software will finally allow some of these scripts to see life.

@AVARY @AmandaMilius I onow it's unlikely, but are the rights for any of these with the family? I can visualize some amazing crowdfunding campaigns...

@AVARY @AmandaMilius The Jenny Wiley story would make a terrific, harrowing movie. Of course, zero chance it would get greenlit today, for... reasons.

@AVARY @AmandaMilius Didn't anybody ever tell John he was supposed to OPTION his best stuff?? Any work-for-hire script comes from the B-file...

@AVARY @AmandaMilius Sounds incredible. A great lost opportunity, along with Terrence Malik's Jerry Lee Lewis biopic script!

@AVARY @AmandaMilius This is heartbreaking. We are being robbed.

@AVARY @AmandaMilius There are so many great books that have never been made into movies too. Hollywood remakes should be boycotted by default.

@AVARY @AmandaMilius A good movie would be Lewis and Clarke, and not the Chris Farley/Matthew Perry one...

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@AVARY @AmandaMilius is there a way to read these scripts?

@AVARY @AmandaMilius Why someone would want a screenplay he owns the right to not to be produce ?

@AVARY @AmandaMilius The kidnapping of Boone’s Daughters directly inspired James Fenimore Cooper’s “The Last of The Mohicans” ~ I’ve been working on something for a year or so -

@AVARY @AmandaMilius Have you read his Without Remorse script?

@AVARY @AmandaMilius These sorts of ideas have been percolating in my creative circles as well. I was also keen to see a Daniel Boone story. I would love to read anything from Milius. Wolverines!

@AVARY @AmandaMilius The USS Indianapolis monolog from Jaws that John Milius wrote is one of the greatest scenes in movie history.

@AVARY @AmandaMilius 🙌 yes indeed, Rog. Absolutely. You’re so complimentary. Love to you, man.

@AVARY @AmandaMilius Wish I could read these. John Milius is a god

@AVARY @AmandaMilius “John Milias script for Daniel Boone…”

@AVARY @AmandaMilius Sounds like a job for AI...

@AVARY @chrissiemayrsb1 @AmandaMilius 😑

@AVARY @AmandaMilius Insane - those would do so well if done right.

@AVARY @AmandaMilius I hate everything…