![]() ![]() John eventually recovered from the disease and returned to Mexico with the girl whom he later married.With Rachel Weisz (formerly Madelaine Stowe) in the Cynthia Ann Parker role, Robert Pattinson in the John Parker, and Hugh Jackman as the noble white man who tries to save them from the Indians. The Comanche raiders abandoned John and left a Mexican captive girl to take care of him. The Comanche so dreaded this disease that is set the entire band into a panic. On one of these raids, John contracted smallpox. John became a Comanche through and through and went on many raids into Mexico. John Parker adapted well to the wild Comanche life where one was free to roam the Llano Estacado from the Wichitas to Mexico. Williams believed that she was the Parker girl as she had blond hair and blue eyes and was about thirteen years old.Īn interesting sidelight of this story is what became of Cynthia's younger brother John. The girl refused to speak to the trader either because she was afraid, had forgotten her mother tongue or did not care to talk. They noticed a captive white girl and proposed a trade for her, which the Comanche flatly refused but gave Williams permission to speak to her. Len Williams with another trader named Stoal and a Delaware Indian scout named Jack Henry came upon a Comanche camp on the Canadian River. The Quohada band of Comanche who were the most war-like of all the Comanche bands took the two Parker children. Later, the two women and the Plummer child were ransomed to friendly Indians and returned them to their families. The captives were scattered among the various bands of the two tribes. Elizabeth Kellogg and the Parker children, Cynthia Ann, nine-years old and John, children of Silas Parker. Rachel Plummer, her fifteen-month-old son James, Mrs. On May 19, 1836, the Comanche and Kiowa attacked the fort killing most of the residents and capturing several women and children. ![]() The Story of Cynthia Ann Parker The Parker family, originally from Virginia, moved from Kentucky to Texas in the early 1830s and established Parker's Fort on the fringes of the Comanche frontier. You can't really speak more differently from Edward." Unbound Captives like a thinly veiled version of Cynthia Ann Parker's story: ![]() When she finds us, we can't remember who she is and can't remember anything about the Western culture she grew up in. His mother spends her entire life trying to find me and my sister. ![]() "I'm playing a kid who is kidnapped by Comanches when he was four years old, and he is brought up by them. Robert Pattinson Talks 'Breaking Dawn' & 'Unbound Captives' The young heartthrob revealed that it's tentatively scheduled to begin shooting in early 2010, and he sounds enthusiastic for a role that'll be miles away from Edward Cullen. Ridley Scott was originally intended to direct the film and star Russell Crowe as the role Hugh Jackman will play. The film never began production after Stowe declined a $5 million deal in 2003 because she wanted to star as the lead female role instead of only being the writer. Humphrey and her husband, Brian Benben in the early 1990s. The script was written by Stowe under the pseudonym O.C. After being rescued by a frontiersman, their mother spends years searching for them and eventually finds them, but they do not remember her or anything about their previous life. The film is the directorial debut of Madeleine Stowe.Īfter his father is killed, a child is kidnapped at the age of four in 1859 with his sister and raised by the Comanche tribe. Unbound Captives Unbound Captives is an upcoming independent western film starring Robert Pattinson, Hugh Jackman and Rachel Weisz. ![]()
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