a movie for HBO, Capone, but it was not made. In the late 1980s Milius wrote and directed a Pacific War adventure film Farewell to the King (1989).<ref>{{cite news |last1=Culhane |first1=John |title=Film; In Borneo's Wilds, Legend Takes Root |work=The New York Times |date=26 February 1989 |issn = 0362-4331|oclc =1645522| ref=Gale Document Number: GALE A175637654 |location=Gale General OneFile |quote=To John Milius, the kinds of stories we tell about ourselves, our own ongoing legends of ourselves, are actually how we measure the greatness of our aspirations. That's what Learoyd does for the tribe, he says. He takes them, he gives them a legend - all of them. He gives them a history; he makes them a strong people. Even though he's gone, they have the legend.}}</ref> This flopped at the box office. In 1989, he tried to get funding for adaptations of Allan W. Eckert's "The Frontiersmen: A Narrative", about settling the Ohio River Valley, and "Half of the Sky", about a Rocky Mountains explorer. Sean Connery was hired to star in the film The Hunt for Red October for producer Mace Neufeld, based on the Tom Clancy's novel of the same name. Connery thought the script was "too American" and insisted Neufeld hire John Milius to rewrite the Russian sequences. Connery thought with Milius, he could "get a different sort of image, different speech patterns." Neufeld then hired Milius to write and direct Flight of the Intruder, based on the book by Stephen Coonts. It too was not a financial success. "I think the culture had changed and that is why my films were less accepted", he reflected later. "I still think those are also great films, Farewell to the King especially." Later 1990s: screenwriting, cable TV In 1992, Milius claimed that he was blacklisted for his conservative beliefs in liberal Hollywood, saying that his flops were not as forgiven as those from more leftist directors. "It weighs ten times heavier against me", he said. "If you don't share the politically correct vision, then you are an outlaw, you are hunted and there is a price on your head, and if they catch you they will hang you." The film of Hunt for the Red October had been a big success, however, and Milius remained in high demand as a screenwriter: he did several drafts of another Clancy adaptation, Clear and Present Danger (1994), which was another hit. Milius worked on