While in the process of writing
Wind River, a romantic adventure novel about 19th-century fur trappers, Heston was convinced by producer Martin Shafer to turn the story into a film script. Discovering that film-writing came naturally for him, 22-year-old Heston wrote his first screenplay,
The Mountain Men, for
Columbia Pictures, which became the feature film. Fraser Heston produced his father's TV adaptation of
A Man For All Seasons (1988). He directed his father as
Long John Silver in a
1990 adaptation of Treasure Island for TNT and helmed
The Crucifer of Blood starring his father as
Sherlock Holmes the following year. ==Other work==