I have limited what can be read because TV companies are often very sensitive to whether or not anyone has seen the material. What I have posted here is just the "concept" page of an extensive bible, a bible that contained the general arc of the plot, character descriptions, and treatments for episodes. a conflict that has been covered up ever since. The Utes and Apaches and Navajos fought alongside soldiers of the US and Mexican armies in a secret conflict against the Empire of Xibalba. one of the "government secrets" this piece of SF plays around with is that there were no "Indian Wars" in the Southwest. I added in the concept that the peoples of both the United States and Mexico had been fighting an inter dimensional war with Xibalba since the time of the Hopis and Mayans. One of the particularly intriguing aspects that I discovered I could add to the TV project was a connection to 19th century Western history. No Man's Mesa Expedition - Click to enlarge It was a lot of fun and I got into some very strange places and made some good friends. I did do a good deal of the "on the ground" research on the book with him and then, eventually, for him.
I was Dad's go-to Sci-Fi guy while he was struggling with haunted Mesa in the 1970s and '80s but I was too young and inexperienced to help as much as I would have liked. Dad touched on so many interesting ideas in this story that he nearly drowned in them. Not having to resolve everything from the novel in a two hour movie really opened Haunted Mesa up and made it fall into a much clearer structure. The big challenge was to bring it up to date and to make the "other world" a bit more grounded in its own science fiction reality. then I cheated and created a TV Series Bible and a Pilot Episode. Over the years, however, I found I had created a number of adaptations of my father's material that never even made it onto the desk of an agent or a studio executive.Īround 2008 buddy of mine challenged me to write a script to Dad's novel Haunted Mesa, a book my friend considered nearly impossible to do a decent adaptation of. Often disappointed in either the outcome (despite my best efforts) or the process, I ultimately decided to put a greater and greater amount of my time into publishing projects. Among other things, I struggled to make a number of projects of my father's but was only partly successful. BEAU L'AMOUR'S COMMENTS: Up until the early 2000s I was somewhat active in the Motion Picture and Television industry.
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