The character change has become so apparent that some fans have suggested checking out the 1991 movie adaptation, The Dark Wind, for a more accurate depiction of Jim Chee.

Eventually, one film was made — 1991’s critically panned’s The Dark Wind, starring Lou Diamond Phillips as Chee (it went directly to home video).

Until ISIS invaded Iraqi Kurdistan, either enslaving or massacring the Yazidi population, few outside the region were even aware of this much-persecuted people. Hussein Hassan’s “The Dark Wind ...

As mentioned above, Redford produced the 1991 film adaptation of the book series called The Dark Wind.

Previously they’ve been portrayed in the Robert Redford-produced 1991 movie “The Dark Wind” and a three-part PBS series over a decade later.