The script touched something deep inside me, which was how much I’d always wanted to make a Western.” Director Roland Joffé’s voice charges with enthusiasm as he describes the emotions he felt during his first reading of producers Leslie Greif and Darrell Fetty’s script for Texas Rising, the History Channel’s eight-hour miniseries event, which airs over four nights beginning on Memorial Day. After enjoying enormous success with 2012’s Hatfields & McCoys for the History Chann


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