New Battle of Britain Film??

[AlanG]

GK Films taps Robert Towne - Entertainment News, Film News, Media - Variety

[MORIARTY1177]

Although I'm a huge Fan of the original this is a movie remake I've been waiting for. The things mOdern writing and fx could bring to this amazing story could be something special.....bring it on!

[Vaughan]

Sounds very interesting and the original is a classic but it would great to have a remake as it is such an important time in our history.

Vaughan

[BarryW]

mmmmm but it will lack one very important element of the first film, Susannah York in her underwear!

[Andy2035]

Just as long as it isn't Americanised (no offence to our Colonial friends)...

[Guest]

Don't you yell at me, Mister Warwick!

[Ian M]

Hmmm double bill with that and the new Dam busters. I would pay for that !Ian M

[AlanG]

Spring chicken to sh*te hawk in one easy lesson.... taca taca taca taca taca

Love the music in this sectionAnd all the rest of the classic one liners

[stona]

We'll see,Hollywood remakes of classic European films don't exactly have a great record.

What's happened to Jackson's dambusters? As a Kiwi at least he should have a feel for the subject,enough of his countrymen fought and died with Bomber Command.

Two New Zealanders took part in Operation Chastise.

Flg.Off. L.Chambers attacked the Mohne dam in AJ-P. Their mine veered left an exploded at the side of the dam. They got home and Chambers survived the war.

Flt.Lt. J. Munro was in AJ-W. They were severely damaged by flak on the outward leg and returned to base with their mine intact. Amazingly he too survived the war.

2 out of 133 may not seem many but then there aren't that many New Zealanders!

Cheers

Steve

[AlanG]

What's happened to Jackson's dambusters?

He's had full scale model replicas made up of the Sqn aircraft (in China) and has got Stephen Fry to help write the script to it. That was the last i've heard. As far as i know he's too busy filming 'The Hobbit' at the moment to carry on with this project

[Guest]

There is a report in the NZ press of a refuelling truck Jackson's imported being put through its import biohazard testing (NZ it touchy about importing foreign creepy crawlies...) so its still in pre-production mode. Lets see what happens after he finishes the Hobbit films (yes apparently there is going to be more than one!)

[AlanG]

There is a report in the NZ press of a refuelling truck Jackson's imported being put through its import biohazard testing (NZ it touchy about importing foreign creepy crawlies...)

Sir Peter Jackson | Dambusters Truck Ready | Stuff.co.nz

[mossiepilot]

Wow new BoB film and new Dambusters film.

I'm really glad I read this forum, cos I never knew about any of this.

Thanks for the heads up guys.

Tony

[Guest]

I love the Battle of Britain film, it still has some of the post war eccentric English charm about it which I have a feeling maybe lost, if it is Americanised...ouch...However if HBO turn their miniseries to it...then we may well be talking...Their Band of Brothers, Pacific and 1 I litterally just found out about today From the Earth to the Moon (this starts off at the Mercury flights right through to Apollo 17) are Gems.

They will have to CGI all of the air battles though, the 1 thing with the original is the number of Heinkels available (they used 32 CASA 2.111 twin-engined bombers, a Spanish-built version of the German Heinkel He 111H), this could be a downside; to my knowledge there are none now still flying. Also nobody in their right mind is going to start throwing around 70 yr old aircraft for a fight seen.

So would the music....I can still see the Spits peeling off whilst the music plays the Battle of Britain march in my mind and the fight sequence during the score, The Battle in the Air, oh and I loved the music being played during the inspection of the German aircraft...That's the tricky bit for me.

Oh last thing...look at the Cast during that film, it's a who's who...

Darren

Type 23 1/96 Frigate blog

http://pittnuma-type23.blogspot.com/

[stona]

You can't replicate an old classic. There are two ways of remaking an older film. You can slavishly follow the original or have a completely different take (The Italian Job).

For the BoB you have to take the latter route and hope to make a better job of it than my example above.

Cheers

Steve