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Jan 2008

    I was excited to hear that Joseph C. Lincoln's first novel, Cap'n Eri., was being filmed as Chatham. It's been 80 years since anyone has filmed any of his books, so this is the first talkie. It amused me that a new generation of readers might read and like Lincoln. However, so far, I've only heard that Chatham is a snore. I have to see it anyway, and maybe the first audience feedback will lead to a more generally exciting version.
    The movie was filmed largely in Chatham, with scenes at the Osterville's train depot and at Provincetown's Race Point Life-Saving Station. Surprising to me, the production does not have its own web site. According to the production office, as of 9 Apr 2007, all articles written about the movie have been in the Cape weeklies, and in the Cape Cod Times, Boston Globe and Boston Herald.
    I thank the Cape Cod Chronicle for permission to post its articles and pictures.



17 May 2006
Hollywood actors to star in 'Chatham'

By Tim Miller
Entertainment Editor, Cape Cod Times
    Burt Reynolds, Dennis Hopper and Martin Landau as retired sea captains?
    That's the plan, as writer-director Daniel Adams of West Barnstable prepares to shoot the feature film ''Chatham'' on the Cape this fall.
    The 44-year-old Cape native has made three films, his most recent shot on the Cape 10 years ago: ''The Mouse,'' a comedy starring John Savage as a boxer.
    ''I'm looking forward to directing something again,'' Adams said by phone yesterday. ''It's been a long time.''
    His new film, Adams said, is ''loosely inspired'' by ''Cap'n Eri: A Story of the Coast,'' written by Cape Cod author Joseph C. Lincoln (1870-1944) in 1904 and previously adapted as a silent film in 1915.
    ''I've always been a Joseph Lincoln fan,'' Adams said. ''He captures a period of Cape Cod I'm really fond of ... before the massive development.''
    Adams said he used only parts of the book, and even those he changed. He said his adaptation, a romantic comedy, is about ''three retired sea captains who try to coax an attractive, middle-aged woman to marry one of them to take over domestic chores.''
    Although Adams didn't want to give anything away, he said things don't quite go as planned.
    Anne Archer, who played Michael Douglas' wife in ''Fatal Attraction,'' has been signed to play the woman entangled with the sea captains. Peter Boyle of TV's ''Everybody Loves Raymond'' also is set to appear in ''Chatham.''