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| Final test, mexican squeleton turns greek and Talos is added, 1970 |
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Test still from Return to the Valley of Gwangi, 1970
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| Lobby card, with version directed by Sergio Leone with alternate title |
Recentlly discovered, the original screenplay for
Return to the Valley of Gwangi by
Rudolph Wurlitzer from a story by Ray Harryhausen. The project was pitched to Sergio Leone who was interested in directing. The story, a mixture between Huichol shamanisn and Edgar Rice Burroughs style of pulp featured an unlickly trio of heroes: a savage woman, a Shaman priest and a living mexican Squeleton all in search of the mystical peyote bud in a valley filled with dinosaurs.
Sadly, the lack of success of The Valley of Gwangi when it came out in 1969 all but killed the project! One can only imagine what a collaboration between Wurlitzer, Harryhausen and Leone would have looked like!
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