MONTE WALSH Celebration Week: Bonus Article #3 | Wednesday, January 15, 2003
TOM SELLECK stars in
MONTE WALSH, an epic western
directed by Simon Wincer
Plot Summary:
In the final decade of the 1800s, Monte Walsh is the last of a dying breed a genuine cowboy an iconoclastic original, who experiences first hand the seismic changes that the era of a new technology has introduced. Eastern corporations are gobbling up Western land with little regard for the people who live and work there. They are deemed irrelevant and disposable. How one man fights back and the nature of his life-and-death struggle for survival is the story of MONTE WALSH.
Tom Selleck
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Eighteen Stories from Women and Men of the Ranching West. edited by Max Evans (The Rounders, Hi-Lo Country) and Candy Moulton
"...Hot Biscuits, a serious book with a funny (but significant) title, is every bit as revolutionary and literary as [Owen] Wister's [The Virginian]. It is the first fresh approach to the Western in memory."Dale Walker, Former director of the Texas Western University Press and author of numerous books on the West, including the recent Pacific Destiny.
TOM SELLECK &Quigley Down Under: The Future of Matthew Quigley by Taylor Fogarty
Before Monte Walsh, Tom Selleck and director Simon Wincer first teamed together in 1990 for Quigley Down Under, in which Selleck played the title role of Matthew Quigley.
Over the years the well-loved movie has developed a grand following of its own. Aware that many fans are hoping for a sequel to Quigley some day, Selleck is happy to talk about how the initial project came about and speculates on the possibilities on another.
You know, when Quigley came along I was on one of those short lists in the movie business where I could get films made. Selleck chuckles, and explains his experience with how fickle Hollywood can be at times. You come and go off that list.
The history behind the film is a long one. Selleck points out that Steve McQueen had his fingerprints all over that script, but it never got made. But because I wanted to do it, Quigley got made. I love that movie and I'm really proud of it.
Selleck says he is constantly approached by people who love Quigley and are chomping at the bit to hear news of a sequel. And of course, Tom is definitely open to that thought.
It would be fun to know what Matthew Quigley is doing ten years later, or fifteen years later. And that would be the proper way to approach it. I'd rather let the audience find out what went on in the time they've been away because they do love that character.
But in Hollywood there are road blocks to overcome, and until then talk of a sequel to Quigley is just thattalk.
It's out of my hands, explains Selleck. MGM is a very strange, almost not a movie studio anymore, and they have the rights to it. So you run into all sorts of legal things. If it was me, it'd be a no-brainer. It's not dead. It's just figuring out how to do it.
Among all the roles Selleck has played throughout his acting career, two in particular have left long a lasting impression on audiences: Thomas Magnum and Matthew Quigley.
Those two characters are so indelible in the minds of the audience that it would be foolish for any studio to even so much as entertain the thought of using other actors to reprise those roles. And generally it's agreed that anyone who would would try to fill Selleck's shoes or boots would be immediately rejected by the public. But then we all know, too, that movie studios often times don't make the right decisions, and therein lies the fate of Matthew Quigley, as well as Thomas Magnum.
I mean, they can hire somebody else, admits Selleck, but I can do 'em better. Other actors can play some of the other characters differently, but those two characters are pretty indelible.
Selleck thinks about it a little more then adds, And maybe MonteI hope.
The public showers Tom Selleck with praise in our guestbook - read it!
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Monday, January 13th: Tom Selleck's Ongoing Dedication to the Western Sample Tom Selleck quote: I just did an A&E biography and I got some home movies of me at the pony rides and it's pretty ugly stuff.
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Tuesday, January 14th: The Monte Walsh Miscellaneous Guy-Stuff Talk: Firearm Props Sample Tom Selleck quote: The carbine Monte carries, the audience won't see it unless they look really close, but that's a very rare 1886 saddle ring carbine Winchester 50-110 Express...
Wednesday, January 15th: Quigley Down Under: The Future of Matthew Quigley Sample Tom Selleck quote about his character Matthew Quigley: I'd rather let the audience find out what went on in the time they've been away because they do love that character...
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