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It’s called DANCES WITH WEREWOLVES, and it reunites him with SOMEONE’S KNOCKING director/co-writer Chad Ferrin.

“DANCES WITH WEREWOLVES is a working title, and the movie is a classic American romance which will be done mostly in the Lakota language,” Segan tells Fango. “Set against the pioneering days of the Wild West, the insecurity of Reconstruction after the Civil War and the tumultuous relationship between white settlers and Native Americans, we examine how encroaching civilization drives a tribe, as a last resort, to invoke lycanthropy to defend their land and way of life. When a young pioneer and a Native American princess fall in love, the impending battle between their two families could at least tear them apart, if not tear them to shreds. Think ROMEO & JULIET meets BROTHERHOOD OF THE WOLF meets RAVENOUS.”

Segan further reveals that he’ll be playing “the last of the Lakota Indian werewolves, à la Daniel Day-Lewis in THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS with a touch of Dustin Hoffman in LITTLE BIG MAN. Here’s a well-known poem that Chad has found to be well-representative of our concept: ‘The Indian Hunter,’ by Eliza Cook.”