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Lynne Glazer said:

>...

>, and then the fall's Hidalgo (Touchstone/Disney). New

>news is that the latter has been moved to early March

>release, with much speculation as to the reason why--is

>it the true story vs. hoax controversy? The lead actor's

>other movie's release schedule? Movie too long, back to

>the editing suite?

Now that's *very* interesting. As of late last year

it was scheduled to come out this July: July 2003.

Then, when the first wave of Disney's press releases

touting "The true story of Frank Hopkins and his horse

Hidalgo..." were sent out to all the horse publications

in early spring, the date had been moved back to

October, 2003.

And now you say it has been moved back to March, 2004?

I wonder if they're redoing the script to take into

account the fact that it is now widely known that

the story never happened. That would be the sensible

thing: rewrite the script and shoot new "sandwich"

scenes to either cast doubt "The legend says...but who

can say for sure?" (kinda like _Little Big Man_) on

the story, or to completely rework the story to focus on

Hopkins-the-con-man, with all the tall-tales done as

insets, sort of like Michael Caine as Peachy Carnahan,

all grizzled and deformed recounting his story

to Christopher Plummer in _The Man Who Would Be King_.

Linda B. Merims

Massachusetts, USA