After spending the rest of the war in an Ohio prison, he returns home to find his family struggling to make ends meet and mourning his brother, killed in a bar fight by Hatfield's quick-tempered uncle (Tom Berenger). Hatfield is warmly welcomed by his wife and his timber business takes off, making him a rich and powerful force. "God hates deserters," he growls as he contemplates shooting his fellow soldier. Soon after the battle, Hatfield breaks camp and heads back to the family business in West Virginia, a move that angers the deeply religious and patriotic McCoy.
(Costner insists the friendship is historically accurate Paxton isn't so sure.) The film opens in 1862, with Hatfield and Randall McCoy (Bill Paxton), who hailed from neighboring towns, fighting side by side for the Confederate Army and even saving each other's life in a bloody battle. You can always say you want more money, but what you really want is more time." "The only thing that made things tough is that we didn't get time to rehearse. The production scrimped by shooting in Romania, where the Civil War film "Cold Mountain" was shot 10 years ago. You're going as fast as you can go," he said. "I could have cut it down or just told one side of the story, but we decided to paint the whole canvas," said Costner, who hired his "Waterworld" collaborator Kevin Reynolds to direct.Ĭostner, whose only previous TV experience was a 1985 episode of "Amazing Stories," said it wasn't difficult adjusting to a medium that usually allows fewer shooting days and smaller budgets.
He was determined to take a deeper look at a tale that shows us it can take decades, if not a century, for a country to recover from fighting with itself. Producer Kevin Costner, who plays Devil Anse Hatfield, believed there was so much more to the story that he insisted on a three- night miniseries (which starts Monday) and even recorded an album of songs inspired by the film. The battle, which began in the aftermath of the Civil War in West Virginia and Kentucky, has been referred to in everything from Mark Twain's "Huckleberry Finn" to Waylon Jennings' "Luckenbach, Texas," but it's largely been dismissed as a squabble over a stolen pig between two clans of hillbillies.
Next time you think about storming over to your neighbors' house to complain about their loud music, take a break - a six-hour break - to watch History Channel's "Hatfields & McCoys," an exhaustive re-creation of one of the most famous feuds in American history.
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