Howdy folks and greetings from the Great Plains of North Texas!
I think this is great news. The Tesuque Pueblo tribe in Northern New Mexico moved their casino business and realized the 75,000 sq ft building with mostly open space would be perfect as a film studio.
It's called Camel Rock Studios:
Hey, if you can't beat 'em, build your own studio. Native Americans have been misrepresented, marginalized, and generally lied about by Hollywood for decades.
Plus they've been played, ridiculously, by white actors in most films. Here's just a few of them:
Burt Reynolds
Burt Lancaster
Chuck Connors
Harry Brandon
Johnny Depp
It'll be interesting to see if they make some movies from the Indian's point of view for a change.
Their first major movie
Tom Hanks is using the new studio for his upcoming Western which is called News Of The World.
I know, it doesn't sound like a Western but it is. I love the sound of the plot. A Texas cowboy is hired to take a 10 yr old white girl back to her people.
She'd been kidnapped by the Kiowa when she was 4 yrs old so that's the only life she's known and she does NOT want to go to live with the whites. Well, it sounds like they have all kinds of adventures on their trip back to "civilization."
Hanks stars in it but is also one of the producers. I think this "road trip" through the Wild West in 1870 with very unlikely travel companions is going to be very interesting indeed! They don't have a trailer for it yet unfortunately.
The film industry is booming
In New Mexico. Since Breaking Bad was filmed there many others projects have been started and Stranger Things moved there for their fourth season.
The biggest news: Netflix bought a studio in Albuquerque and just made it their hub for production. They plan on spending a billion dollars in production in the next ten years.
Not just them either. NBC Universal is building a television and movie studio just North of Albuquerque, an investment of 1.1 billion dollars. New Mexico is giving the production companies tax breaks and tax credits for creating thousands of new jobs in the state.
Much needed help for the tribe
As far as the Tesuque Tribe, they're small, just 525 members and like most tribes in the country they're in serious need of jobs and financial help so the new studio will go towards supplying them with health care, jobs, and other benefits.
Their 17,500 acres of tribal lands have already been used in over 20 movies and I think that number will dramatically increase now and they'll actually make money from those films.
Any American Indians have been Hollywood outsiders since Hollywood was formed. Now the entire Native American population has a studio to use where THEY run the show.
I think we're gonna see some great films come out and if they're Westerns they'll be historically accurate.
Thanks for stopping by folks, God bless you all!
-jonboy
Texas
PS- By they way, the name of the studio, Camel Rock, is named after a famous rock formation close to the studio. Looks like a Camel lying down resting in the desert.
Or at least that's what it used to look like. Unfortunately the "nose" fell off the Camel's head so now it looks like this... which doesn't look like anything. lol.
Seems like they could re-attach it!
That is a very informative post @janton , you amaze me with your story telling ability with your westerns.
This however, is out of character for you, but great nonetheless.
Nicely done!
Sult
Howdy tonight sir sultnpapper! Well I got away from the story telling because I only had a few people reading my posts but I'll probably go back to it because almost no one is reading this new type of posting that I do neither! lol. Thanks for the kind words!
The decision to make Johnny Depp "Tanto" was a strange one.... It didn't help that the entire time he seemed to be Captain Jack Sparrow with face-paint and a bird on his head either.
lol...you're so funny. Captain Jack with a bird on his head! lol. I agree though of course, I thought it was pretty retarded. I think that was a pretty big disappointment at the box office with the studio if I remember correctly.
I looked for Bone Tomahawk on Netflix tonight but it's not there, have you seen that one? Kurt Russell stars in it.
Realllly good movie.... And probably what happened to the lost tribe of cliff dwellers.
C A N N I B A L I S M. . .!!!
Exactly sir krazzytrukker! I did a series about that subject, what happened to the cliff dwellers.
That plot sounds like one of your stories, so I'm sure it will be good :)
Howdy ginnyannette! I agree, I can't wait. Tom Hanks doesn't make bad movies so that helps. I didn't want to make the post too long but why the movie is named News of the World is because Tom Hank's character is based on a real cowboy who would gather the newspapers from the big cities and then charge people 10 cents to read them the news! That part of the story is true. lol.
Are you guys under a shelter-in-place order? Hey what are you doing up so late???
And read it, ha. Sad, but funny too. My grandfather, born 1900, never learned to read even though he lived well into the 1970s. He would ask people at the bus station where things were and play it off like he just didn't see the sign that said what he needed nearby.
Still no shelter-in-place here. Governor is taking a lot of heat for it. I am sheltering in place despite it though, so I have been doing a lot of homeschool catchup and gardening. And general time wasting, frankly. I see you haven't missed a beat. Glad to see you here.
General time wasting. lol...somehow I kinda doubt that. I haven't been posting as often just because I'm busy working offline. No restrictions in the country!
That's an interesting story about your grandfather!
Actually I think it looks more like a camel now then before.
That's a cool story. Hopefully having a big star come in will give the studio some clout.
Howdy there moeknows! Yes I agree, this Tom Hanks movie is going to really help them, especially if it does well and I bet it does. Thanks so much for commenting!
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Howdy Cowboy! A great building that once was a casino. Do they have another place for the casino or did they scrap it. It should have been a money maker.
Stone formations-Before the nose fell off it definitely looked like a camel.
Howdy redheadpei! Yes, the tribe moved their casino to another location but they didn't say why. And the new studio got a 50 million dollar investment to make the building into a studio.
I assume you guys are on lock down up there?
Hey Cowboy. Yep, lockdown and shutdown. Seems like a nightmare one could wake up from. Only essential stores are open. There are 3 cases on PEI.
Now are things going in your area?
Stay safe my friend.
Everything is locked down here too except essential businesses and stores and as far as the restaurants go they can have take out or delivery or else they have to close. How many people are on PEI? I mean is 3 about what you would expect?
You guys are staying put unless you need to shop for food?
Now we have 5 cases on the Island all from people who have been visiting abroad.The total pop. here is about 150,000 (one hundred and fifty thousand).
Hubster and I are self-isolating except for getting groceries - there are strict rules in the store about only so many at a time and social distancing.
Ok well that doesn't sound like a big number of infected out of 150,000.
The grocery stores limit the number of shoppers that can be in the store? How do they do that, they have people outside?
You have a future in film Jonboy..... ! @janton
lol! I don't think so! Maybe in the editing room but not in front of the camera!
WTH happened to your avatar fo-toe....???!
lol...I don't know. Ever since the Hive started their new community and esteem made adjustments my photo is no longer there, I love it! lol. It fits my personality, just plain grey!
What's going on over there, you doing projects around the house and property?
El Loco deliveries. Staying within 5 hrs / 300 mile radius of home.
El Loco = Krazzy Local
Oh that could be your new cool handle. lol. That sounds very good indeed, are there enough loads within those parameters?