Movie About Ervil LeBaron?

[_hatersinmyward]

Is anyone up for writing a screenplay depicting the arrests and assassinations of Polygamist Sect Leaders in SLC and their aftermaths?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ervil_LeBaron

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rulon_Allred

Events ranging from 1935-2011?

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[_hatersinmyward]

It is already being worked on and the guy working on the script is a former Mormon who worked on many of the scripts for Big Love and directed Milk, Dustin Lance Black:

Black's screenplay is actually about a different polygamist sect.


Personally I'd find the Ervil LeBaron story far more entertaining. Ervil supposedly ordered the execution of 25 people from his prison cell.

Under the Banner of Heaven was announced before the events surrounding Ervil LeBaron had semi-fully unfolded.

[_hatersinmyward]

I'm excited for this movie. The book was one of the main segways for me to see how problematic the LDS church is. Should be pretty interesting...

Good for you, however this story sucks in relative comparison to LeBaron's tale.

[_zeezrom]

I'm sort of tired of the polygamy pop shows. What about a movie depicting alternative Book of Mormon creation methods?

[_hatersinmyward]

I'm sort of tired of the polygamy pop shows. What about a movie depicting alternative Book of Mormon creation methods?

No Top Hat, No Sheet and No Golden Plates. The Book of Mormon is a complete fabrication, same as any other piece of cult literature brainwashed rejects pass out.

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[_hatersinmyward]

There was a made for Tv movie about Ervil LeBaron produced in 1993. Hopefully TV20 in Salt Lake City will rebroadcast the film in the near future.





List of Mormon sects.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_se ... amentalist


and all these lives ruined.

Mormonism has done more harm than good.

[_harmony]

What's the story behing Ervil LeBaron? Or Allred? Or Harmstrom? Anything recent?

[_DrW]

I just remembered the LeBarons being mentioned in the book, but I didn't remember how much of a mention because it was a long time ago that I read it and I don't have my copy here at the moment. I read quite a few books about polygamous groups around the same time.

I think it will be interesting to see how they adapt the book and which stories they choose to focus on. It will probably be more about the Lafferty brothers than anything else though. If I had a choice between a film focused on the Laffertys or the LeBarons, I'd prefer the focus to be on the LeBarons too. I know a lot of the fictional characters from Big Love reminded me a lot of things that I have read about such groups. Still I can't wait to see how they adapt the material.


Thanks,

Hasa Diga Eebowai

A relative on my wife's side of the family (second generation German immigrant) is a former member of the LeBaron polygamist colony in Mexico. She was married to a LeBaron for a number of years.

Her first son was severely autistic and she was eventually allowed to leave the colony and move back to the States to get help for him. (I imagine the others simply did not want an autistic boy in the group.)

She now lives in western Washington. We see her on occasion. She is a polite and pleasant (if somewhat damaged) individual. She never remarried. Her son is in his 30's now and still lives at home.

She is quite shy socially and seems genuinely embarrassed about her polygamist past. She has come to realize that the lifestyle is a religious sham and (here in the States) a welfare scam.

She wasted her life in Fundamentalist Mormonism and she knows it. She has no skills and barely gets by on odd jobs and help from the State because of her handicapped son.