WB is eyeing a spring 2006 start date in Montana. Paula Weinstein and Len Amato will produce for Spring Creek.

Studio tried for more than a decade to make a movie out of a book written by the "A River Runs Through It" author just before he died, says the trade. The book is about a 1949 Montana forest fire that, stoked by a rare combination of winds and explosions, produced flames the equivalent of 40 stories tall that moved 50 mph. Battling it was a group of smoke jumpers who parachuted into the conflagration. A total of 13 men died in the blaze.

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