In particular, we were stumped by one of the early scenes, where Burns and Whisky try to cross a busy highway. But we struggled to find other locations. We found sites on the westside of Albuquerque near the Volcanoes, some of the “escape” locations at the base of the Sandias, and thought we’d located the vicinity, at least, of the Bondi home. On our first reconnaissance trip to Albuquerque, we depended solely on our instincts, our sense of direction, and our ability to align real time geographical features with specific film location images that we’d brought along as screenshots. And to Chris, of course.īACK TO THE DUKE CITY & THE MISSING FILM LOCATIONS… Crossing 4th Street & Gibson Blvd…at the same time Huelsbeck and to the University for their cooperation. We’d like to express our gratitude to Ms. She was enthusiastic about our project and graciously gave us permission to repost many of the documents that Chris had originally shared with us. It includes Abbey’s scene-by-scene notes on the screenplay, including suggestions and changes, and a very detailed biographical profile of the character “Jack Burns.”Ĭhris also directed us to the source of all this invaluable information and soon we were in contact with Mary Huelsbeck, the Assistant Director of the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research which is part of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
He discovered a treasure trove of documents related to the film’s production, including a list of location shots, which resolved almost all of our remaining “mystery locations.” And perhaps most significantly, Chris found, scanned and sent us a long letter that author Ed Abbey had written to the film’s director, David Miller, regarding the Dalton Trumbo screenplay. Though he was too young to have participated in the filming or production of “Lonely Are the Brave,” his interest in its history led him to Madison, Wisconsin, the home of the Kirk Douglas Film Archive. I suspected Jack Burns might have wanted to avoid that basketball game as well.Ī decade would pass before I’d discover “Desert Solitaire” and Edward Abbey and learn that he was the author of the novel upon which the film was based.
I even felt a certain vindication on that evening, thinking that there was nothing wrong with the notion that I preferred solitude and quiet, to the noise and mayhem of large elbow-to-elbow gatherings. But from the very first scene, “Lonely Are the Brave” resonated viscerally with me, in some very deep part of my soul. Even then, I was sort of a loner and on that particular evening, my last minute decision to not attend a basketball game with my family had caused yet another argument with my parents. Just a couple years after its theatrical release, “Lonely Are the Brave” showed up as a “Saturday Night at the Movies” offering on NBC. I had first seen the film when I was only 13 or 14 years old. However, that practice went out the window when the company was bought by Disney.“Lonely Are the Brave” starred Kirk Douglas, Walter Matthau, and Gena Rowlands, and was based upon the Edward Abbey novel, “The Brave Cowboy.” The product of our efforts appeared in the December 2014/January 2015 issue of The Zephyr. It’s interesting to note that initially, Pixar made it a point of never doing sequels. We never make a film at Pixar to have a sequel.” I don’t know if there will be another one. “If we got the right story it would be fun – to get the gang back together again, add a few more new characters and find out what other Scottish talents are out there that might want to do a animated fun. The director also stated the “Scottish humor” in the original film was lost on American audiences, who only understood around half of the jokes.Īccording to, Andrews was speaking during a visit to Glasgow to kick off a two-week mentoring project for students from across Scotland when he said the following:
Mark Andrews, the director of Disney-Pixar’s Brave has already expressed interest in doing another film, and would like to add a host of new characters and other Scottish actors to the line-up including Kelly Macdonald, Emma Thompson and Kevin McKidd. A sequel to Disney-Pixar’s Brave could be in the future…that is if the filmmakers can find the right storyline.
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