Richard Hiner
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but my wife feels it was a short story in a magazine or collection.
Briefly, in the near future, a young book editor has mind numbing the duty of publishing some hunting magazine like "Field and Stream" all by himself. No one hunts or fishes any longer but the mag's patrons wish somewhere, someone was enjoying an environment and life-style where hunting and fishing is still possible. All the bored young editor has ever done is recycle old articles and illustrations from the last few decades or so into eye-catching editions.
One day, he gets notice that the Ministry of Natural Resources in far-far north Canada is sending out its last game warden to investigate the report of a wild bear damaging an automated apple orchard in the far-far north and would the young feller like to go? Excited, he quickly agrees and spends a large amount of money for a "hunting" outfit, buys a fancy camera and lenses and flies to Canada and finds a helicopter to take him farther north.
He meets the grizzled game warden who tipped him off. They load the youngster's gear into an old broken down official truck. They set up camp in the automated orchard and dig a "blind" where they can see the bear damaged area. The warden loads his somewhat questionable looking rifle while the boy fiddles with his new camera.
In the evening they climb into the blind and pull a tarp over the top and wait. They fall asleep under a light rain. Just before dawn, the bear stumbles into the blind on top of them and when the obligatory screaming, panic, grunting and wild rifle fire dies down, the comedic chase begins.
They chase the bear to several death defying man-made industrial disaster sites: a hole in a fence around a hazardous chemical dump, an abandoned open pit mine where the paw prints disappear at the top of the pit, a nuclear waste dump with a hole in the fence under the warning sign, and finally, they see the bear climb onto the remote control caboose on the back of train that rapidly speeds up and takes the bear out of sight. Pretty much "the end".
I'd like to find the owner(s) of the rights to this tale and make a screenplay from it. It would be a timely and fun comedy to produce and I could do it right here in my own NorthWestern Canada backyard with my own film making friends. Thanks
Briefly, in the near future, a young book editor has mind numbing the duty of publishing some hunting magazine like "Field and Stream" all by himself. No one hunts or fishes any longer but the mag's patrons wish somewhere, someone was enjoying an environment and life-style where hunting and fishing is still possible. All the bored young editor has ever done is recycle old articles and illustrations from the last few decades or so into eye-catching editions.
One day, he gets notice that the Ministry of Natural Resources in far-far north Canada is sending out its last game warden to investigate the report of a wild bear damaging an automated apple orchard in the far-far north and would the young feller like to go? Excited, he quickly agrees and spends a large amount of money for a "hunting" outfit, buys a fancy camera and lenses and flies to Canada and finds a helicopter to take him farther north.
He meets the grizzled game warden who tipped him off. They load the youngster's gear into an old broken down official truck. They set up camp in the automated orchard and dig a "blind" where they can see the bear damaged area. The warden loads his somewhat questionable looking rifle while the boy fiddles with his new camera.
In the evening they climb into the blind and pull a tarp over the top and wait. They fall asleep under a light rain. Just before dawn, the bear stumbles into the blind on top of them and when the obligatory screaming, panic, grunting and wild rifle fire dies down, the comedic chase begins.
They chase the bear to several death defying man-made industrial disaster sites: a hole in a fence around a hazardous chemical dump, an abandoned open pit mine where the paw prints disappear at the top of the pit, a nuclear waste dump with a hole in the fence under the warning sign, and finally, they see the bear climb onto the remote control caboose on the back of train that rapidly speeds up and takes the bear out of sight. Pretty much "the end".
I'd like to find the owner(s) of the rights to this tale and make a screenplay from it. It would be a timely and fun comedy to produce and I could do it right here in my own NorthWestern Canada backyard with my own film making friends. Thanks