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John Fusco

American Writer

China History Horse Time You Young

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Twelve years ago, when I was on the Pine Ridge Reservation for 'Thunderheart,' I was dong research into Native American horses that had come into extinction. I was tracing certain Lakota bloodlines, and it became an obsession. John Fusco

Research Reservation Horses Had Obsession Come Tracing Became Years Years Ago Pine American Native Native American Certain Twelve Ridge Extinction

He was an Italian kid traveling in China, and I'm of Italian decent with a fascination for China. So, I always felt this connection to him and lived vicariously through the travels of Marco Polo. John Fusco

Kid Through He Him Felt Always Italian Decent Vicariously Polo China Connection Fascination Lived Traveling Travels

I have spent time in Mongolia, in China. John Fusco

Time Spent China

We searched around the globe and looked at well over a hundred 'Marco Polos,' came down to the wire, and went back and looked at our Italy tapes, and we realized that we had overlooked someone. That was Lorenzo Richelmy. John Fusco

Down Back Our Hundred Someone Wire Had Over Looked Well Globe Around Overlooked Came Tapes Italy Realized

In 2007, I did a horseback trip across part of central Mongolia with my 13-year-old son - we encountered Marco Polo at all these historical places where Mongolian nomads would reference his accounts and his relationship with Kublai Khan. John Fusco

Relationship Son Khan Would Trip Horseback Part His Reference Encountered Historical Accounts Did Where Polo Central Places Across

As a writer of both novels and screenplays, I can say that screenwriting is a vastly rewarding creative life - if you fight hard enough to do it on your own terms. Whether I write books or not, my screenwriting life has been creatively rewarding and remains so. John Fusco

Life You Creative Fight Own Enough Books Say Has-Been Both Remains Vastly Write Writer Terms Been Rewarding Screenplays Screenwriting Whether Your Hard Creative Life Creatively Novels

I have seen too many screenwriters of promise become formula addicts and slaves to stop watch structure. Spend that time watching movies, reading screenplays, reading plays, and most importantly - write from your gut. John Fusco

Time Seen Reading Become Too Addict Spend Promise Gut Structure Write Most Importantly Stop Screenplays Formula Movies Your Many Watch Watching Slaves Plays

We're not just making 'Marco Polo,' we're living it. Because we traveled to Venice... Kazakhstan... into the jungles of Malaysia. John Fusco

Living Venice Because Making Malaysia Just Polo Traveled

I was interviewing an elder, Chief Fool's Crow, who was the ceremonial chief. He was 103 years old. I was getting his information on the history of Lakota horses. He told me the story of Hidalgo and Frank Hopkins. John Fusco

I started looking into horse history books and came across the actual story of this half-breed endurance horseman and his painted mustang Hidalgo. I wasn't really sure if I was going to do the movie at that point. John Fusco

I grew up in the unlikely place of Connecticut. The Eastern Woodlands. It was semi-rural where I grew up. I was fascinated by the Piqua and the Mohegan Indians of that area. John Fusco

Unlikely Eastern Indians Area Up Where Grew Place Connecticut Fascinated

I wrote 'Young Guns' on spec because I really believed that the young age of these guys historically, the whole legend of Billy dying at 21, would attract a young staple of stars, and that would be the game-changer. John Fusco

Age Legend Young Stars Would Would-Be Guns Guys Attract Wrote Because Historically Young Age Dying Really Whole Billy Staple Believed

At a young age, when I was fascinated with China, I read 'The Travels of Marco Polo' and learned about this exciting, dramatic world he captured and reported on. He's so little known, but yet this mythology has survived that's so misrepresentative of his story. John Fusco

Being on the ground in Mongolia and traveling with the horse culture and sleeping in yurts, I was able to pick up a lot of detail. But I brought in advisors to work with our horse master to make sure the fighting strategies both on the Chinese and Mongolian sides were very accurate. John Fusco

Work Culture Master Fighting Sleeping Our Sides Detail Able Brought Both Horse Pick Make Sure Advisor Were Lot Up Very Accurate Being Chinese Ground Strategies Traveling

The journey of Marco Polo is the hero's journey, one that all cultures across the globe can relate to. John Fusco

Journey Hero Relate Globe Cultures Polo Across

I got the feeling: It's time to do a Marco Polo story. I felt like everything was lining up right because long-form television series were becoming to me like the new great American novel. John Fusco

Time Great Me Feeling Great American Everything Television Television Series New Like Because Felt Becoming Got Were Lining Up American Polo Story Novel Series Right

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