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Mar 8, 2021 · Fusco joined the Blues Rock Show to discuss his journey into the blues, his two blues albums, and Crossroads, including the film’s iconic guitar duel and what a potential remake would be like.
John Fusco is an American screenwriter, producer, and television series creator born in Prospect, Connecticut. His screenplays include Crossroads, Young Guns, Young Guns II, Thunderheart, Hidalgo, Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron and The Highwaymen. He is also the creator of the Netflix series Marco Polo.
Apr 17, 2023 · Fusco spent his youth dreaming about a career in Hollywood, but his life changed at age 14 when his older sister, Kathleen, took him to Veterans Coliseum in New Haven – about 30 miles to the south in the central part of the state – to catch the Allman Brothers Band in action.
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Growing up there was magical; I made my first movies there (Super 8) when I was 10, filmed in my backyard on Lee Road, an unpaved road back then, surrounded by eastern woodland forest that inspired my lifelong passion for nature, wildlife, and Native American studies (the forest was the hunting and fishing grounds of the Quinnipiac tribe).
As a teenager, John Fusco made an unlikely transition from living on the road as a blues musician to getting accepting at NYU Film School. Thanks to his intriguing background, he soon found himself the interest of mentors like Waldo Salt (Midnight Cowboy, Serpico) and Ring Lardner Jr. (MASH, Cloak and Dagger).
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Borderlands is his third album after John Fusco and the X-Road Riders in 2019 and John the Revelator, a double album in 2021. The album combines ancient gospel overtones and blues themes to create what Fusco calls “a kind of peyote passion play.”
