SEPTEMBER DAWN

Movie About Mountain Meadows Massacre

SEPTEMBER DAWN is a love story set against the 19th century massacre of a wagon train of settlers in Utah at the hands of a renegade Mormon group.

Release Date: TBA 2006

The $11 million movie started shooting in Calgary in Aug. 2005, is being directed and was co-written by Christopher Cain.  Oscar winner Jon Voight stars as the leader of the Mormon group, portraying a tragedy said to be the darkest moment of Mormon history.

Official Website

• Not announced yet

Casting

	John Voight as John D. Lee
	Lolita Davidovich as member of wagon train.

News Coverage

See: Google News: "September Dawn" - latest major news stories.

• Mountain Meadows Massacre, the movie - John D. Lee? Jon Voight stars in "September Dawn," described in a trade paper as “a love story set against the 19th-century massacre" (Salt Lake Tribune; Aug. 27, 2005)
• Mountain Meadows movie being filmed - "September Dawn" is being touted as "a love story set during a tense encounter between a wagon train of settlers that faces off against a renegade Mormon group." Starring Jon Voight and Lolita Davidovich, the project began filming earlier this month in Alberta and is scheduled to shoot through mid-September.
   (Deseret News; Aug. 26, 2005)
• Voight, Davidovich stormin' Mormon drama (Reuters; Aug 10, 2005)
• Jon Voight & Lolita Davidovich are Ready for SEPTEMBER DAWN (Softpedia; Aug 10, 2005)
• September Dawn - (Box Office Prophets; Aug 10, 2005)

Movie Websites

• thezreview.co.uk/comingsoon/s/septemberdawn.htm
• themovieinsider.com/movies/mid/2938/September_Dawn
• up4u.net/mov/go/Movie/SeptemberDawn
• etc. see Google: "September Dawn" "the movie"

  See also

• Mountain Meadows Massacre (main index)
• Movie > Burying the Past -- Legacy of the Mountain Meadows Massacre - Documentary movie directed by Brian Patrick, won "Best of Fest" from the Berkeley Film Festival.

This page created by SDA on August 27, 2005
Last updated on March 06, 2013