By WALT WILLIAMS Chronicle Staff Writer
The writer and producer of several well-known Hollywood titles will direct an independent movie that will be filmed in the Bozeman and Livingston areas this fall, Gov. Brian Schweitzer's office has announced.
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'Fork in the Road,' a 'Raising Arizona'-esque comedy, is being shot in Montana's Paradise Valley
Jim Kouf is staring into a video monitor, his eyes close to the screen, his gaze intense.
Nearby, a small knot of people are gathered around a very large film camera connected to a very large boom, focused on a very small, very mangled dinner fork lying in the middle of a country road. On the video screen, the fork appears in high-definition close-up, with the towering peaks that fringe Montana's Paradise Valley looming in the distant background.
"I'm getting somebody's reflection in the fork," Kouf announces. "Who is it?"
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Today Governor Brian Schweitzer announced that acclaimed writer and director Jim Kouf has selected Montana as the filming location for his upcoming film A FORK IN THE ROAD.
This fictional Montana tale, co-written by Kouf and Alan DiFiore, is a dark, caper comedy about the many forks in the road of life and the consequences of selecting a path. In A FORK IN THE ROAD, an escaped convict and a young woman beset with relationship troubles try to run from their problems and bounce from one mishap to the next, while always intending to do the right thing. The duo meets several nasty characters along the way, yet manage to elude disaster.
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by Larry Tanglen - Oct. 3, 2007
Bobby Brooks' worst fear was that when he pushed the button to set off the explosion to blow up the car -- nothing would happen -- or that it wouldn't explode and just sort of start on fire.
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