Dambusters to be remade

Meteor · 09-28-2006, 04:19 PM

Is it worth doing or was the whole episode actually over romanticised both at the time and since. If the RAF was serious about destroying the Dams, why was it a one off?

I am inclined to think it was done more for the propaganda value, actually I believe that barnes Wallace thought so too.

As for the movie, how can you better the one done already apart from better graphics what can they add?

Clave · 09-30-2006, 04:38 PM

I rather see a series like Band of Brothers, but about the RAF...

Gnomey · 09-30-2006, 05:01 PM

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I rather see a series like Band of Brothers, but about the RAF...

That would be great but which squadron would they choose

Clave · 09-30-2006, 06:50 PM

Hmm.. No1 Sqn sounds exciting:

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These were replaced with Hawker Furys in 1932 and in October 1938 the squadron's first monoplane fighter, the famous Hawker Hurricane, arrived. The Squadron was one of the first to deploy to France in 1939, and one of the last to return in June 1940. After fierce fighting in the Battle of Britain, the Hurricanes and later the ground-attack Hawker Typhoons were used in intruder missions over France. During 1944, the Squadron downed 39 V1 flying bombs over British soil.

the lancaster kicks ass · 10-01-2006, 03:17 AM

there are so many others too, Nos. 3 & 111 spring to mind as well... let's just see how people react to the dambusters first though.........

v2 · 12-03-2007, 01:52 PM

YouTube - Dambuster veteran Jonny Johnsontalks about the new movie

Aggie08 · 12-03-2007, 02:02 PM

I hope this pans out. I heard somewhere that a movie about the Redtail Tuskegee Airmen was coming out too, i sure as heck hope they get made!

k9kiwi · 12-03-2007, 05:31 PM

Um, it was done more than a few years back.

Aggie08 · 12-04-2007, 12:14 AM

Really? What's it called?

Wildcat · 12-04-2007, 12:58 AM

"The Tuskegee Airmen" was a made for TV movie relesed in 1995. Not bad. As for the red tails movie I also read about this some time ago, I believe George Lucas was going to make it.

Downwind.Maddl-Land · 12-04-2007, 05:32 AM

There is a WHOLE lot of concern over here about this film and what the result will be:

Political Correctness getting in on the act and modifying history (Dog’s name/success codeword), Guy Gibson probably being hinted as being Gay Gibson. There will, of course, be the mandatory Love Interest for the girlies with Eve Gibson coming from a broken home with alcohol/crack cocaine addition having been sexually abused as a baby. And don’t forget the Metrosexual crewman who won’t be able ‘to cope with it all’ and cracks up/runs amok on the run-in on the Moehne; not to mention the running background shots of ‘the idyllic life in the Russian PoW camp’ in the valley below the Eder before the ‘Nasty men from Bomber Command kill them all because they were Russian’ conspiracy line.

Given what happened in “Pearl Harbour” and to improve box-office receipts in the States, no doubt B-17s will be substituted for Lancasters and Barnes Wallis will be from Texas; any Brits will, of course, be inbred landed gentry with no chins and without a brain cell between them. Finally, the ‘it wasn’t worth it’ line from the Bleeding Hearts.

Strewth, you can just picture it all, can’t you?!

I hope I’m wrong and a really good docudrama results, but somehow I have a wee doubt…..

And just WHAT are the producers going to use for music that will improve on the original?

I know! Amy Winehouse............

wilbur1 · 12-04-2007, 07:23 AM

i cant find any info on this movie anybody know where to get it at? thanks

arrdee · 12-04-2007, 09:19 AM

Why do we need another remake of any movie?
I have yet to see one that was anything but a pale shadow of the original.
the dambusters was a fine tribute to the men and machines of 617, they need to be honored with respect and dignity not commercialism.

Wildcat · 12-04-2007, 10:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Downwind.Maddl-Land

There is a WHOLE lot of concern over here about this film and what the result will be:

Political Correctness getting in on the act and modifying history (Dog’s name/success codeword), Guy Gibson probably being hinted as being Gay Gibson. There will, of course, be the mandatory Love Interest for the girlies with Eve Gibson coming from a broken home with alcohol/crack cocaine addition having been sexually abused as a baby. And don’t forget the Metrosexual crewman who won’t be able ‘to cope with it all’ and cracks up/runs amok on the run-in on the Moehne; not to mention the running background shots of ‘the idyllic life in the Russian PoW camp’ in the valley below the Eder before the ‘Nasty men from Bomber Command kill them all because they were Russian’ conspiracy line.

Given what happened in “Pearl Harbour” and to improve box-office receipts in the States, no doubt B-17s will be substituted for Lancasters and Barnes Wallis will be from Texas; any Brits will, of course, be inbred landed gentry with no chins and without a brain cell between them. Finally, the ‘it wasn’t worth it’ line from the Bleeding Hearts.

Strewth, you can just picture it all, can’t you?!

I hope I’m wrong and a really good docudrama results, but somehow I have a wee doubt…..

And just WHAT are the producers going to use for music that will improve on the original?

I know! Amy Winehouse............

Well seeing as it's going to be directed,produced and filmed in NZ there might be hope yet! I for one can't wait to see it, remake or not.

Downwind.Maddl-Land · 12-05-2007, 08:42 AM

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Originally Posted by Wildcat

Well seeing as it's going to be directed,produced and filmed in NZ there might be hope yet! I for one can't wait to see it, remake or not.

Agreed - and with Stephen Fry doing the screen play............there might be hope, just!

BTW I think that Stephen Fry is a bit of af an aviation anorak on the quiet, there's frequently some reference to aircraft in his UK TV comedy quiz "QI"