Salt Lake City panel discusses movie adaptions of religious extremism

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Jon Krakauer signs books for (right) Rick Luskin and Loree DeYoung before he participated in a Utah Film Center panel discussion about adapting investigations into extreme religious groups into documentaries and dramatic fiction films at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center in Salt Lake City on Sunday, Aug. 5, 2012.

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Copies of Under the Banner of Heaven are sold before a Utah Film Center panel discussion about adapting investigations into extreme religious groups into documentaries and dramatic fiction films at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center in Salt Lake City on Sunday, Aug. 5, 2012.

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Shannon Costello, producer for the film adaptation of Under the Banner of Heaven, speaks during a Utah Film Center panel discussion about adapting investigations into extreme religious groups into documentaries and dramatic fiction films at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center in Salt Lake City on Sunday, Aug. 5, 2012.

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Shannon Costello, producer for the film adaptation of Under the Banner of Heaven, speaks during a Utah Film Center panel discussion about adapting investigations into extreme religious groups into documentaries and dramatic fiction films at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center in Salt Lake City on Aug. 5, 2012.

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Author Jon Krakauer, writer of Under the Banner of Heaven, speaks during a Utah Film Center panel discussion about adapting investigations into extreme religious groups into documentaries and dramatic fiction films at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center in Salt Lake City on Sunday, Aug. 5, 2012. Krakauer's book, Under the Banner of Heaven, is currently being adapted into a film.

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Private investigator and author of Prophet's Prey, Sam Brower speaks during a Utah Film Center panel discussion about adapting investigations into extreme religious groups into documentaries and dramatic fiction films at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center in Salt Lake City on Sunday, Aug. 5, 2012. Prophet's Prey is a book investigating Warren Jeffs and the FLDS community.

Kim Raff | The Salt Lake Tribune
Private investigator and author of Prophet's Prey, Sam Brower speaks during a Utah Film Center panel discussion about adapting investigations into extreme religious groups into documentaries and dramatic fiction films at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center in Salt Lake City on Sunday, Aug. 5, 2012. Prophet's Prey is a book investigating Warren Jeffs and the FLDS community.

Kim Raff | The Salt Lake Tribune
Private investigator and author of Prophet's Prey, Sam Brower speaks during a Utah Film Center panel discussion about adapting investigations into extreme religious groups into documentaries and dramatic fiction films at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center in Salt Lake City on Sunday, Aug. 5, 2012. Prophet's Prey is a book investigating Warren Jeffs and the FLDS community.

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Kim Raff | The Salt Lake Tribune Jon Krakauer signs books for (right) Rick Luskin and Loree DeYoung before he participated in a Utah Film Center panel discussion about adapting investigations into extreme religious groups into documentaries and dramatic fiction films at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center in Salt Lake City on Sunday, Aug. 5, 2012. Kim Raff | The Salt Lake Tribune Copies of Under the Banner of Heaven are sold before a Utah Film Center panel discussion about adapting investigations into extreme religious groups into documentaries and dramatic fiction films at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center in Salt Lake City on Sunday, Aug. 5, 2012. Kim Raff | The Salt Lake Tribune Shannon Costello, producer for the film adaptation of Under the Banner of Heaven, speaks during a Utah Film Center panel discussion about adapting investigations into extreme religious groups into documentaries and dramatic fiction films at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center in Salt Lake City on Sunday, Aug. 5, 2012. Kim Raff | The Salt Lake Tribune Shannon Costello, producer for the film adaptation of Under the Banner of Heaven, speaks during a Utah Film Center panel discussion about adapting investigations into extreme religious groups into documentaries and dramatic fiction films at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center in Salt Lake City on Aug. 5, 2012. Kim Raff | The Salt Lake Tribune Author Jon Krakauer, writer of Under the Banner of Heaven, speaks during a Utah Film Center panel discussion about adapting investigations into extreme religious groups into documentaries and dramatic fiction films at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center in Salt Lake City on Sunday, Aug. 5, 2012. Krakauer's book, Under the Banner of Heaven, is currently being adapted into a film. Kim Raff | The Salt Lake Tribune Private investigator and author of Prophet's Prey, Sam Brower speaks during a Utah Film Center panel discussion about adapting investigations into extreme religious groups into documentaries and dramatic fiction films at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center in Salt Lake City on Sunday, Aug. 5, 2012. Prophet's Prey is a book investigating Warren Jeffs and the FLDS community. Kim Raff | The Salt Lake Tribune Private investigator and author of Prophet's Prey, Sam Brower speaks during a Utah Film Center panel discussion about adapting investigations into extreme religious groups into documentaries and dramatic fiction films at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center in Salt Lake City on Sunday, Aug. 5, 2012. Prophet's Prey is a book investigating Warren Jeffs and the FLDS community. Kim Raff | The Salt Lake Tribune Private investigator and author of Prophet's Prey, Sam Brower speaks during a Utah Film Center panel discussion about adapting investigations into extreme religious groups into documentaries and dramatic fiction films at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center in Salt Lake City on Sunday, Aug. 5, 2012. Prophet's Prey is a book investigating Warren Jeffs and the FLDS community.

The Salt Lake Tribune

· August 5, 2012 8:36 pm

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Jon Krakauer, author of Under the Banner of Heaven, was on a panel Sunday night in Salt Lake City discussing movie adaptations of investigations of religious extremism.

Other panelists at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center included private investigator Sam Brower, author of Prophet's Prey, a book about the FLDS Church, and Under the Banner of Heaven co-producer Shannon Costello.

Krakauer's book dovetails the history of the LDS Church and the 1984 double murder in Utah of Brenda Lafferty and her baby daughter, Erica, committed by Brenda's brothers-in-law Ron and Dan Lafferty, who were involved in a severely fundamentalist Mormon sect.

Dustin Lance Black, who is doing the screenplay adaptation of Krakauer's book, was a scheduled panelist but was unable to appear due to a scheduling conflict.