The western series At the dawn of Americawhich is currently a hit on the Netflix platform, is it inspired by a true story? Télé-Loisirs reveals it to you.
Available since Thursday January 9 on Netflix, the western series At the dawn of America should keep you from dozing off in front of your screen this weekend. Violent, both visually and psychologically, this epic journey through the United States of the mid-19th century is not necessarily one to be seen by everyone. The millions of subscribers to the streaming platform who have already binged it can attest to this…
At the dawn of America : What does the new Netflix western series say?
Mid-19th century. With her disabled son, Devin (Preston Mota), Sara Rowell (Betty Gilpin, whom the general public had discovered with the all-too-ephemeral series GLOW) embarks on a dangerous journey across the United States, still wild and undermined by the violence of the conquest of the West, in order to join her husband. Seeming as much to escape as to pursue something, she has obviously planned everything: the money, the itinerary and the contacts who will help her on her path. But Sara is wrong and her epic journey will turn out to be chaotic, in a country prey to incredible violence. Fortunately, in their quest, Sara and Devin will be able to count on the help of the mysterious and taciturn Isaac (Taylor Kitsch)…
At the dawn of America : Is Netflix’s new western series inspired by a true story?
Let the suspense be lifted immediately: no, At the dawn of America is not strictly speaking an adaptation of a true story. Nor is it the transposition of a novel to the screen. American Primeval (its original title) is a fictional creation, imagined by screenwriter Mark L. Smith, already at the origin of the scripts for The Revenant (which earned Leonardo DiCaprio his only Oscar, to date), Midnight in the universe or even Twisters. But if the plot is original, it brings together a few characters who actually existed – notably Governor Brigham Young (played with great talent in the series by Kim Coates) and Jim Bridger, the founder of the camp bearing his name (played by the no less remarkable Shea Whigham) – and it is backed by a true historical fact: that of the Mountain Meadows massacre during which, in September 1857 in southern Utah, around sixty militiamen Mormons supported by Native Americans massacred more than a hundred emigrants who were heading to California. A macabre episode in the history of the United States which marked the director and producer Peter Berg for this bloody epic that is At the dawn of America.
