Preservation and Celebration of the Parker Family History & Genealogy

Looking to produce piece on Quanah

I am a producer/editor in Hollywood and have close family connections to Quanah. I would like to produce a special on Quanah.

Permalink Reply by Kathy Jo Bryant on September 14, 2009 at 1:24pm: Welcome, Richard!
As proven through Y-DNA, Quanah Parker is in Family Group #5. That is an interesting idea, to produce a piece on Quanah. Congrats!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Richar' Farr on September 14, 2009 at 1:48pm: I would like it to be the most comperhensive piece on The Nation at the time.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Kathy Jo Bryant on September 14, 2009 at 2:21pm: Excellent! More power to you!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Jim Yarbrough on September 14, 2009 at 3:08pm: Mr. Farr,

You might wish to speak to Larry Hagman who is in a partnership to produce a movie based on Quanah's life.

" Work is under way to film the story of legendary Comanche chief Quanah Parker in Southwest Oklahoma.

The screenplay for the movie "Eagle of the Comanches" was written several years ago by Bill Neeley, formerly of the Museum of The Great Plains in Lawton and now director of education at Duncan’s Chisholm Trail Heritage Center.

Neeley also authored the book "The Last Comanche Chief: The Life and Times of Quanah Parker," which was well received by historians and Comanches, who gave him the Comanche name Chatuhbohtuh, which means "good writer."

Neeley and his partner, Chisholm Trail Heritage Center Executive Director Dr. Chris Jefferies, are marshaling financial support and beginning the process of producing the screenplay into a feature film.

Actor Larry Hagman has agreed to play the role of Charles Goodnight, an enemy-turned-friend to Quanah Parker in the late 1800s, a time of turmoil and sometimes bloody clashes of white, Native American and Spanish cultures on the plains from northern Mexico through central and west Texas, Oklahoma and as far west as New Mexico and as far north as Nebraska."

Also, Terry Graham, Los Angeles CA, has been working on a TV series based on Quanah and his tribe.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Richar' Farr on September 14, 2009 at 3:41pm: If you know these folks would like to speak with them. I Edit and Produce for a very large concern in Hollywood. I have been able to generate quite a bit of interest here on Quanah and the Nation. my direct email is richar_farr@yahoo.com

here are some past examples of my work:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTP8kpAvQtM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMVxD6f11FQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RxAKRnZSGs

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Permalink Reply by Jim Yarbrough on September 14, 2009 at 4:59pm: I have passed your messages on to Terry Graham. The descendants of Quanah are now aware of your project.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Richar' Farr on September 14, 2009 at 5:13pm: As a lost Descendant Thank you for your help.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Jim Yarbrough on September 14, 2009 at 5:16pm: I will be happy to pass on your lineage to the others if you would care to share it.

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www.quanahparker.org; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Richar' Farr on September 14, 2009 at 6:17pm: All I know is what my grand mother Leia Parker Young passed on to me many many times about "Her Grandfather" Quanah. I have always been very interested in Quanah. Feel like it is part of my calling to tell the story.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Mara Rigge on September 14, 2009 at 8:49pm: Hi Richar',

So, you're a producer/editor in Hollywood, huh? It'd be cool to see a really good documentary on Quanah.

What I'd really like to see from Hollywood? A documentary on the history of the "Baby Snatch Era" (1960's-1970's) and the exposing of the discriminatory practice of closed adoptions and sealed and falsified birth records of adopted persons in this country. (Over 6 million people and climbing.)

Why wont Hollywood touch this subject? Are there too many people paid off by the multi-billion dollar adoption industry? I'd like to see a producer with enough b*lls to expose these civil rights violations that continue in 44 states. (There is no "Except for Adopted Persons" clause in the United States Constitution.)

Thanks for listening!!!!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Richar' Farr on September 14, 2009 at 9:03pm: I am not for sure how to respond except I have exposed a multi-billion dollar scheme to defraud children of billions of dollars in "Lost" child support monies. I have no problem in exposing civil rights issues. But my current focus is telling the unique story of a Great Nation and the time of change.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMVxD6f11FQ

I can't speak for the rest of Hollywood, I can only speak for myself. Maybe it is not an issue of b*lls as you put it. But an issue of education. Try writing a 400 word information piece that grabs the reader and producers will take notice. That's my best advise.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Mara Rigge on September 15, 2009 at 9:44am: Thanks for the advice! How would someone who is not in the industry get a 400-word piece to producers and actually get them to read it?

Also, my Uncle is a screenwriter in L.A. (Wrote Beverly Hills Cop). He'd be an excellent choice for the Quanah piece.

Good luck and thanks again for your advice!!!!; ▶ Reply to This

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