Bill Kauffman has adapted Harold Frederic's novella (originally
serialized in "Scribner's Magazine") into a screenplay for Ronald
F. Maxwell's Civil War era movie which is also to be released in
the spring of 2013.
"The Copperhead" is a dramatically intense story set in New York
State in 1862 and 1863 and it's about the price of dissent, the
cost of dissent. "Copperhead" was the extremely derisive term used
to insult those Northerners who were opposed to the war. It was a
big movement in the North. They wanted to end the war, and this
book (and related film) explores the anti-war movement in the North
through the conflict of one family in one town. It's a work of
fiction, but it is based on real events. "The Copperhead" explores
ground that has not been explored at all in screenplay or
cinema--these people were politically opposed to war--which ties
the book and movie to our current situation.
Bill Kauffman is the author of nine books, among them
"Dispatches from the Muckdog Gazette" and "Ain't My America." He
was born in Batavia, New York, and currently resides in Elba, New
York, with his wife and daughter.
Harold Frederic is the author of "The Damnation of Theron Ware"
as well as "Gloria Mundi." Jonathan Yardley called "Damnation" "a
minor classic of realism."
Ronald F. Maxwell is an independent film director and writer. He
is most famous for writing and directing the American Civil War
epics "Gettysburg" and "Gods and Generals."
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