YELLOWSTONE'S TAYLOR SHERIDAN TO DIRECT EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON EPIC MOVIE ON THE RISE AND THE FALL OF COMANCHES

As Deadline reports Yellowstone's Taylor Sheridan is to turn EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON book by S.C. Gwyne into an epic movie charting the rise and fall of the Comanches, the most powerful Indian tribe in American history.

Taylor Sheridan will helm the movie

It will depict the four-decade struggle between the Comanche tribe and white settlers to control the American West. Quanah was considered its greatest chief. Comanches were legendary fighters, with young boys able to ride horses bareback by the time they were 6 years old. They were so masterful with the bow and lance that they stopped the northern drive of colonial Spain from Mexico and halted the French expansion westward from Louisiana. Part of the story involves Quanah’s mother, Cynthia Ann Parker, who was 9 when she was kidnapped by the Comanches. Quanah and the Comanches drove back the Spanish and French, but the settlers coming from the Eastern states were more formidable. They created the Texas Rangers and fortified them with the six gun, for which the Comanches had no answer.