Walter Hill Returns To The West
September 5, 2006

Filmmaker Walter Hill’s latest project, Broken Trail, finds out favorite red-meat-chewing, crank-up-the-volume-on-the-gunfire auteur back in the Old West, which is familiar territory for the man who made The Long Riders (1980), Geronimo: An American Legend (1993) and Wild Bill (1995).

"I've always felt that a movie should stand on it’s own - you make it, you put your name on it and so on. In the case of The Warriors, there were some issues left over from 1979 and some misunderstandings I had with the studio at the time…The most outstanding [example of a film] that I felt was missing material that I’d like to work on again is Geronimo. That could easily be fixed. There’s also a lot of missing material on The Long Riders…. There’s been some talk about putting out a trilogy of my Westerns. There’s the James-Younger gang in The Long Riders, Wild Bill Hickock in Wild Bill and then Geronimo. All are historical figures, so it would seem to thematically tie together…I must confess that up until this Warriors experience, I’ve kept DVD at arm’s length. For reasons that I think I’ve already stated, I don’t want to get into this whole special edition thing—it’s kind of like writing your own reviews. It certainly is tempting though—there are several films that I probably would have liked to have written my own reviews above the reviews that I did get!"

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