While reading this chapter in "Dinosaurs in the Attic" i couldnt stop thinking about how this story could be portrayed so well in a major motion picture (this is probably because film is my passion). Othniel C. Marsh and Edward Drinker Cope, the two collectors at each other's throats to excavate the most and greatest dinosaur bones, could be played by Daniel Day Lewis and sean connery.
Henry Fairfield Osborn, the expert of vertebrate paleontology, could be played by an aged george clooney:
and the hero of our story, Barnum Brown could be played by that guy in the devil wears prada:
The final scene of the movie would be Brown and his crew excavating Hell Creek, Montana, in their flatboat which becomes a "fossil arc." This story has all the makings for a great film, conflict, competition, hope, history, dreams. it sounds like a winner to me! so whos gonna help me get funding going on this thing!
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