Blood River is a 1991 American Western television film directed by Mel Damski, written by John Carpenter, and starring Ricky Schroder, Wilford Brimley, and Adrienne Barbeau.
Carpenter wrote the screenplay in 1971 with the intent that it would be a feature film starring John Wayne.
Batjac, Wayne's company, read it in the mid 1970s and hired him to do a rewrite.
I worked with Michael Wayne and Tom Kane, and they would do things like take out some of the harder action stuff, making it easier on him.
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