A NEW WESTERN BRINGS LEGENDARY LAWMAN BASS REEVES TO NAVARRO COUNTY:

“Being a Texan, I was so intrigued by what I didn’t know,” [Isaiah] Washington said prior to [Corsicana’s] Dallas premiere in April. “Bass Reeves was probably the guy who created the careers of John Wayne and any tough guy on a horse who could shoot straight.”

After connecting with the screenplay by Robert Johnson, an actor who also happens to be Corsicana’s police chief, Washington immersed himself in research about Reeves and about the city.

Washington didn’t expect, however, to take over behind the camera. But then the original director dropped out just 48 hours before production was set to begin in August 2020.

“People thought I had lost my mind,” Washington said. “It sounds scary, but I had already been envisioning it.”

The ambitious project became a labor of love for the first-time filmmaker. Besides directing a Western period piece on a limited budget while adhering to strict COVID protocols, Washington helped to shape the screenplay even after the cameras started rolling.

Sounds like the end product will be a lot of fun; read the whole thing.