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Re:The river Why ? 17 Years, 8 Months ago
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David James Duncan Suing The River Why Filmmakers
In all the excitement surrounding the film adaptation of The River Why, ever wonder why the guy who wrote the book was strangely absent from all the publicity?
Duncan v. Cohen, 2008 WL 2891065 (N.D. Cal.)
Duncan sued defendants, including the Sierra Club, based on Thomas Cohen and Kristi Cohen’s attempts to make a film of Duncan’s book The River Why. He alleged copyright infringement and various state-law claims.
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"Rivers course through my dreams, rivers cold and fast, rivers well-known and rivers nameless, rivers that seem like ribbons of blue water twisting through wide valleys, narrow rivers folded in layers of darkening shadow, rivers that have eroded down deep in a mountain's belly, sculpted the land, peeled back the planet's history exposing the texture of time itself."
— Harry Middleton (Rivers of Memory)
"Each night as I haul myself onto the back of county garbage truck no. 2, there is a familiar wind, some thread of moonglow or starlight, a splatter of dark rain on my skin, something that stirs my memory, and again, if even for a brief moment, I am on some mountain river, some stretch of bright water, full of possibilities, including the possibility of trout, perhaps one that, when hooked, will haul me in and out of time, in and out of life's mysterious and frightening, wondrous and incomprehensible continuum, even to the edges of the universe." -- Harry Middleton
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Bjorn (User)
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Re:The river Why ? 17 Years, 8 Months ago
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I think that story is old news, about the sueing. He lost, as I've heard it. He sold the rights, or they were sold by the Sierra Club or whomever actually owned them... they tried to work with him on the screenplay, but he was too close to it to make it work... he pulled out, they brought someone else in and then he didn't like what the new guy did and tried to get the film rights back... and when he couldn't, he sued. Anyone can sue anyone else for anything... so, he did... and he lost and now we are going to have a fishing movie that might just spike some more interest into the sport, which it needs.
I've been looking for info on a new lawsuit, but I have yet to find it.
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Here you go 17 Years, 8 Months ago
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http://www.../2008/05/01/RiverWhy.pdf
You can read the full complaint, but to summarize, Duncan's attorneys are asserting that Sierra Club Books mishandled the option to sell the screen rights to film, selling it to the Cohens fraudulently, since the option to do so expired in 1985.
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Last Edit: 2008/08/13 10:42 By oldtrout.
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"Rivers course through my dreams, rivers cold and fast, rivers well-known and rivers nameless, rivers that seem like ribbons of blue water twisting through wide valleys, narrow rivers folded in layers of darkening shadow, rivers that have eroded down deep in a mountain's belly, sculpted the land, peeled back the planet's history exposing the texture of time itself."
— Harry Middleton (Rivers of Memory)
"Each night as I haul myself onto the back of county garbage truck no. 2, there is a familiar wind, some thread of moonglow or starlight, a splatter of dark rain on my skin, something that stirs my memory, and again, if even for a brief moment, I am on some mountain river, some stretch of bright water, full of possibilities, including the possibility of trout, perhaps one that, when hooked, will haul me in and out of time, in and out of life's mysterious and frightening, wondrous and incomprehensible continuum, even to the edges of the universe." -- Harry Middleton
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Re:Here you go 17 Years, 8 Months ago
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Well crap. I hope he loses. I want to see this movie.
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Re:Here you go 17 Years, 8 Months ago
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Me, too, for a couple of reasons. Yes, I'd like to see it, and I'd like to see it done well. But I also have both a signed first edition of the hardcover and a signed limited edition 20th anniversary specially printed thing, and with the way the economy is going I'm counting on the value of my collectible books going up.
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Re:The river Why ? 17 Years, 8 Months ago
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As one who has worked in the PR Biz
"Just spell my name right!"
It's the BUZZ...
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