Dances With Wolves

Dances With Wolves is a 1990 American epic revisionist Western film directed and produced by Kevin Costner in his feature directorial debut. Starring Costner with an ensemble cast including Mary McDonnell, Graham Greene and Rodney Grant, the film is a film adaptation of the 1988 novel Dances With Wolves by Michael Blake (who also wrote the screenplay). It tells the story of Union army Lieutenant John J. Dunbar (Costner), who travels to the American frontier to find a military post and who meets a group of Lakota. Costner purchased the rights of the novel, with an eye on directing it, after encouraging Blake in early 1986 to turn a Western screenplay into a novel to improve its chances of being produced.