The River Made No Such Claim

The Screen

A feature adaptation of the Maumee Valley's central tragedy — No Such Claim, the nineteen years of Tecumseh between two armies and two gates.

The script

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The feature in full, formatted for the page: the river's five silences, the two gates, and the man between them. A living first draft.

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The blueprint

The beat sheet

The film's structure, scene by scene — the mirror of the two gates, the coat, the three silences, and the rule that the villain is the arithmetic, never a man.

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The map

The adaptation treatment

How the book becomes a film: the Save the Cat beat map, the master scene list, and the choices behind cutting a ten-thousand-year story down to nineteen years.

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Adapted from the book by Scott Flack. The screenplay draws its dialogue from the historical record (Drake 1856, Eggleston 1878, both public domain); no likeness of Tecumseh is fixed, by design.