Michael Mann Had To Get Creative When Adapting The Last Of The Mohicans

The Last of the Mohicans” is a potboiler written by James Fenimore Cooper and published in 1826.

It tells the tale of Natty Bumppo, a white man raised by Native Americans who goes on rollicking adventures across the frontier.

“The Last of the Mohicans” is book two of a five-part series, like if “Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan” was spectacularly boring and also required reading for American students. Yet it has been adapted to film and television many times.

George B.

Seitz directed a version in 1936.

Michael Mann, legendary director of “Heat” and “Miami Vice,” directed his own version…The post Michael Mann Had to Get Creative When Adapting The Last of the Mohicans appeared first on /Film.

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