In 1986, homeless, living out of his car and crashing on the couches of friends and family, Michael Blake was working on his first novel called Dances With Wolves.
Rejected by every major publisher in the United States, the novel was finally picked up in 1988 by a small paper-back company, released as a love story and sold only in gas stations and airports.
After having read the novel, Kevin Costner was determined to make it into a film. Together with his producing partner, Jim Wilson, Kevin Costner knocked on every film-making door in Hollywood and New York but were rejected by all. One company stated they would "consider" investing if all Indians spoke English.
He refused and in early summer of 1989, with seven million dollars in advances from oversea's distributors, Kevin Costner carried everyone to South Dekota and the filming began.
Weeks into principal photography, Orian Films from Hollywood visited the set, looked at dailies and decided to become the film's distributor. From beginning to end a total of sixteen million dollars was spent in making Dances With Wolves.
Dances With Wolves was released in only nine theatres in the United States the first week of November, 1990. What happened after that is a positive element in film-making history
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