Mountain Meadows Movie Being Filmed

The Deseret News features a story on September Dawn, which is being filmed in the Calgary area with Jon Voight and Lolita Davidovich. The movie is being billed as "a love story set during a tense encounter between a wagon train of settlers that faces off against a renegade Mormon group." The article talks about the film and real story behind the film:

Long viewed by historians as the darkest chapter in the history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the massacre of 120 men, women and children by LDS militiamen and Paiute Indians on Sept. 11, 1857, involved Arkansas emigrants following the Old Spanish Trail when they were attacked in Mountain Meadows, north of St. George. Seventeen children survived the attack.

LDS Church officials, including President Gordon B. Hinckley, have worked with state and local authorities and historians in recent years to assuage lingering animosity and memorialize the victims. The church erected a monument overlooking the site of the massacre in 1999 and held a dedication ceremony to which descendants of those involved were invited. It also reburied bones of 29 victims unearthed during construction of the monument in a separate ceremony.

In addition to the article above, more information can be found can be found at The Salt Lake Tribune.

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