Njaco
The Pop-Tart Whisperer
Bloom played a Ranger grunt who was injured in the first few minutes of the operation - fell out of the copter.
How about Mark Wahlberg?
How about Mark Wahlberg?
George Lucas planning to make a WWII film "Red Tails"
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Lucky13
Forum Mascot
I can bet a whole weeks worth of pay, that it'll just be another f*cking Pearl Harbor disaster.... A bl**dy film about fr*cking lovey dovey-little Miss too goody two shoes-falling in love with clean cut fighter pilot-hugs and kissing-boo-f*cking-bl**dy-hoo-has to leave to fight the baaad and scary Germans-wave white handkerchief-dry tear from the wrong color fr*cking glass eye-piece of cr*p flick! You sneeze and by God should you sneeze TWICE, two minutes or less between, you miss all the dogfight action etc....
What the h*ll! What was that....!? D*mn.....I missed it! I want my money back!
What the h*ll! What was that....!? D*mn.....I missed it! I want my money back!
parsifal
Colonel
Compare "Tora Tora tora" with "pearl harbour". Pretty much tells you wherere Hollywood is heading with all of this.
I would like to see a true to life docu-drama on the flying tigers. Far enough away from the US for some hope of semi-truth to be told, whilst close enough to give some hope of a reasonable financial return
I would like to see a true to life docu-drama on the flying tigers. Far enough away from the US for some hope of semi-truth to be told, whilst close enough to give some hope of a reasonable financial return
drgondog
Major
LOL - what do you REALLY think? and how many short, cute or steely eyed, Spike Lee's or Prince's or Michael Jackson's can we recruit for this gig...
actually there are some young black actors to pull this off and it's not like Lucas has always pulled marquee names for his films.
An remember the story line isn't so much about those dreaded Huns, but more about dreaded Jim Crow and the "baaad KKK in the USAAF"
drgondog
Major
How 'bout make up Njaco? maybe they could film it in 'print negative'?
I would cast Prince and Spike Lee - all kidding aside bloom and wahlberg could play the dreaded Hun, Denzell Washington could easily do Benjamin O Davis.. they could cast it well.
Lucky13
Forum Mascot
Don't know about Jackson or Prince, they would probably break out doing moonwalks and other weird dances on the steelplates besides their P-51's, while the groundcrew look like *what the f...!*
Marshall_Stack
Senior Airman
There was already a HBO movie about the Tuskegee Airman (which I thought was really good) and I don't have a problem with another movie coming out.
There is a book out about African-Americans serving in a tank unit in the ETO. That would make for a more interesting movie (unless they have something like M-1 Abrams as the German tanks and M-60s for the Americans)
Spike Lee is also supposedly coming out with a movie about African-American marines.
There is a book out about African-Americans serving in a tank unit in the ETO. That would make for a more interesting movie (unless they have something like M-1 Abrams as the German tanks and M-60s for the Americans)
Spike Lee is also supposedly coming out with a movie about African-American marines.
I'll check that out..
Finnish Flyers yes... defense of Malta.. Japanese invasion of Alaska.. Cockleshell heros... too many to mention
Erich
the old Sage
the LW attack on Bari would be quite interesting covering the ploys of the Allies using poisonous gas that was stored deep within several ships hit..........
an interesting somewhat stealth scenario, wonder if it would be protrayed as a fantasy piece
an interesting somewhat stealth scenario, wonder if it would be protrayed as a fantasy piece
Velius
Airman 1st Class
I'm not sure how many movies there on the the Tuskegee group, but the one I'm thinking of is the one that has Laurence Fishburne as Hannibal Lee.
Erich
the old Sage
just got assailed in todays post from this site :
not sure if it is legit or what ? The Red Tail Project
funny the enclosed letter was suppose to be from former member Harold Brown states that the 332nd fg is almost completely unknown in the media and literature...........NOT !
not sure if it is legit or what ? The Red Tail Project
funny the enclosed letter was suppose to be from former member Harold Brown states that the 332nd fg is almost completely unknown in the media and literature...........NOT !
Matt308
Glock Perfection
I vote the the B-24 raids on Ploesti. Now that would be impressive. Drama, sadness, triumph... and the scale. Oh man...
ToughOmbre
Senior Master Sergeant
Marshall_Stack
Senior Airman
Got my vote!
Marshall_Stack
Senior Airman
Speaking of tragedy, how about Torpedo Squadron 8 at Midway??
Marshall_Stack
Senior Airman
Or the Marines flying the Buffaloes?
good account of The Raid on Bari:
World War II: German Raid on Bari » HistoryNet - From the World's Largest History Magazine Publisher
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World War II: German Raid on Bari » HistoryNet - From the World's Largest History Magazine Publisher
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Erich
the old Sage
thanks Comiso and here is another rather lengthy thesis in more detail, still trying to find out the Ju 88 KG that did the damage, one report says only 20 Ju 88A-4's did the carnage ........
Curt Maynard's Blog: Bari Revisited
Curt Maynard's Blog: Bari Revisited
drgondog
Major
Matt - Could not possibly have a better choice of an epic and important illustration of perhaps the greates life and death drama of USAAF heavy bombers on one of the most important missions of the war -
Leon Johnson taking the 44th in with delayed action fuses going off from the 93rd just minutes earlier, gunners dueling with flak batteries and a flak train running parallel, coming home with wheat and corn stalk chaff in the bomb bays and only one more guy from the lead squadron .. 5 MoH..
Who could possibly capture that on film?
somebody tell me again about the 332nd?
