There's a pretty clever western in the works here in Hollywood which is a vague adaptation of Don Quixote, it is about a young man who lost his father during the Civil War only to find out five years after the Confederacy was defeated that his father was still alive in a federal prison but with a serious mental condition sustained from war wounds.

He fetches his father from the institution and soon realizes his father now suffers unpredictable episodes in which he thinks of himself as another life, in order to coax him home young Bender (his name) must play along as the sidekick to whatever fantasy overcomes his father.

If he's a soldier Bender marches under his command, if he's a gun fighter Bender is his sharp shooting side kick called "Lightning Bender".

Meanwhile his father rants about a villainous outlaw that everyone knows has been dead since the war but Bender plays along as he treks home with his delusional father only to find along the way perhaps dear old dad is not as crazy as many believe, they encounter a town being pillaged by the presumed dead fiend and must leap into action as true gunfighters or perish.

The title of the project is "The Last Stand of Lightning Bender".

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Travis Speegle
Redeemer Presbyterian, PCA (Waco, Tx)
Pacific Cross Roads, PCA (Los Angeles, CA)


"When it comes to trustworthy theologians one can usually honor the rule of thumb that the deader the better."-Dr. John Hannah, DTS (of all places)