Article: Big eyes drawn to Wyoming

By Jennifer Frazer

rep8@wyomingnews.com

CHEYENNE - If Alberta, Canada can be Wyoming, can Wyoming be Missouri?

The state may get a chance to find out this summer if House Bill 127, a bill that would offer movie studios incentives to produce films here, passes.

If that happens, said Michell Howard, manager of the Wyoming Film Office, the odds will greatly increase that Tom Hanks and Julianne Moore will be filming the Larry McMurtry Western "Boone's Lick" in Wyoming - possibly near Torrington - by late summer.

"The incentive program would definitely help make this work," Howard said.

McMurtry also is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning and widely beloved book "Lonesome Dove," which was ...

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