Word: cimino
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cimino decided to shoot much of the film in a majestic section of Montana's Glacier National Park. The other major location is the picturesque mining town of Wallace, Idaho. Cimino built an entire frontier street there. He also built a period roller rink called Heaven's Gate near the production headquarters in Kalispell, Mont...
...minor footnote to history. No longer. In fact, if the Guinness Book of World Records ever devises an entry for History's Most Expensive Minor Footnote, the frontier fracas may find itself at the top of the list. Credit for the elevation goes to Michael Cimino, 38, the Oscar-winning director of The Deer Hunter. Cimino's new film, Heaven's Gate, will dramatize the Johnson County War as lavishly as his last film did the war in Viet Nam, but the price will be steeper. The Deer Hunter was a $12 million movie. By the time...
...Cimino submitted a script for the movie last fall to United Artists. The studio agreed to finance the picture for $7.5 million. "A really well-done western hadn't been made in a long time," explains U.A. Senior Vice President David Field. The studio's faith in Cimino was undiminished when the director's script rewrites necessitated a bigger budget of $11.6 million. The film had become more sweeping than a conventional western. It opens in the 1870s with the Harvard graduation of the hero, James Averill, who, like many of his generation, went West to help...
With Christopher Walken, John Hurt and Jeff Bridges in other major roles, shooting started April 15, just after the Academy Awards. "It was apparent within a few weeks that Cimino was going to go over budget," says Field. "It wasn't apparent until the summer that he was going to go seriously over...
...logistics of making an epic are awesome. Cimino, like Napoleon, is not the kind of strategist to skip a legion. The film involves more than 1,200 extras; from cravats to camisoles, their costumes had to be authentic. He went to Philadelphia to find a top-hat maker, and even farther afield to track down contemporary firearms and long-retired craftsmen who could make scores of wagons. From Denver, Cimino ordered a 19th century locomotive that had to be rerouted because it was too big for many tunnels. Then came the roundup of 80 wagon teams. Using fewer horses, says...