Called “Run on Ice” for 1st – 3rd draft outlines in November 1983, December 1983, and February 1984.
Called “Five Tigers” for 1st and 2nd drafts in March and July 1985.
Correspondence about title mistranslation in Box 46, folder 42.
Called “The Five Lions” for 3rd draft in August 1985.
Unknown when title changed to “Lie Down with Lions.”
Published in 1986 by William Morrow, New York
Published in French as Les Lions du Panshir by Robert Laffont
Published in German as Die Loewen by Lübbe
Published in Italian as Un Letto di Leoni by Mondadori
Published in Spanish as El valle de los leones by Random House Mondadori
Outline Chronology
26 November 1983 | (1st draft, Run on Ice) [Box 44 Folder 1] |
7pp. |
22 December 1983 | (2nd draft, Run on Ice) [Box 44 Folder 1] |
15pp. |
28 February 1984 | (3rd draft, Run on Ice) [Box 44 Folder 1] |
17pp |
BOX 48 | |||
(53) | Manuscript (in yellow package) | n.d. | 442pp. |
BOX 49 | |||
(54) | Blue notebook containing Five Tigers 1st draft, manuscript and Follett’s notes | 7 March 1985 | 400pp. |
BOX 50 | |||
(55) | Lion’s script, 2nd draft outline | n.d. | 10pp. |
(56) | Correspondence: Concerning screenplay | ||
Koster | 19 March 1987 | 2pp. | |
Zuckerman | 20 March 1987 | 2pp. | |
Follett’s notes | 25 March 1987 | 15pp. | |
(57) | Correspondence from Follett to Reeve: Revised first draft | 1 April 1987 | 2pp. |
Screenplay, revised 1st draft | 1 April 1987 | 139pp. | |
(58) | Correspondence from Geoff Reeve: Screenplay comments | 28 March 1989 | 3pp. |
(59) | Correspondence from Follett to Geoff Reeve: Note on revising and shortening the screenplay | 28 March 1989 | 1p. |
(60) | Notes on meeting with Geoff Reeve, screenplay changes | 7 May 1989 | 5pp. |
(61) | Screenplay, 2nd draft | 22 May 1989 | 110pp. |