I haven't heard a peep about Mr Woo's proposed Flying Tiger movie, but here's a radical proposal.
Were I to be making this movie, I would, for the sake of entertainment, fly fast and loose with the facts, in the persuit of a cracking good time.
I would cast Liam Neeson as Chennault, and I would place one or more, Chinese pilots in the group. Heck, I may even put Chennault in the pilot seat at one point. This is a fictional action hero version.
I would start the AVG flying P40's, and quickly move them on to P38 Lightnings. They would be gleaming silver, with the shark mouth on the nose.
You could also smatter a few P51's in there, but that's been done already, so that aircraft would not be the main focus. There could be some rivalry between the AVG pilots as to which was better, the P38 or the P51.
The Japanese would be flying A6M Zeros, and Kawasaki Ki 61 Tony's. There would be dogfights galore. I've no doubt computer gamers are doing this already. I realise that scenes in this movie would start to resemble computer games, but bring it on I say.
At some point the Japanese would introduce the J2M Raiden, and cause concern with this new wonder fighter.
Can you imagine silver shark P38's dogfighting Zeros in a fantasy scenario? Hell with facts. Awesome is the word that springs to mind.
I am preparing for an outpouring of disapproval at this travesty of historical inaccuracy, but this would be a work of fiction, entertainment not documentary.
If anyone were to be intrigued by the story, they could get off their backend and do some research for themselves to find out the real facts.
Jurassic Park played the facts in a distorted manner to maximise the entertainment, why not this movie?
Cinema can educate and entertain, but it's not compulsory to do both. I don't complain that JP raptors are way to big, way too intelligent and lack any feathers. I'm too much of a geek to stand in the way of a good time.
You could say that my outline deviates from the truth so far that it shouldn't be linked with the AVG, but that slice of history is certainly a good starting point for some cinematic storytelling.
Shoot me down, I can take it.
Were I to be making this movie, I would, for the sake of entertainment, fly fast and loose with the facts, in the persuit of a cracking good time.
I would cast Liam Neeson as Chennault, and I would place one or more, Chinese pilots in the group. Heck, I may even put Chennault in the pilot seat at one point. This is a fictional action hero version.
I would start the AVG flying P40's, and quickly move them on to P38 Lightnings. They would be gleaming silver, with the shark mouth on the nose.
You could also smatter a few P51's in there, but that's been done already, so that aircraft would not be the main focus. There could be some rivalry between the AVG pilots as to which was better, the P38 or the P51.
The Japanese would be flying A6M Zeros, and Kawasaki Ki 61 Tony's. There would be dogfights galore. I've no doubt computer gamers are doing this already. I realise that scenes in this movie would start to resemble computer games, but bring it on I say.
At some point the Japanese would introduce the J2M Raiden, and cause concern with this new wonder fighter.
Can you imagine silver shark P38's dogfighting Zeros in a fantasy scenario? Hell with facts. Awesome is the word that springs to mind.
I am preparing for an outpouring of disapproval at this travesty of historical inaccuracy, but this would be a work of fiction, entertainment not documentary.
If anyone were to be intrigued by the story, they could get off their backend and do some research for themselves to find out the real facts.
Jurassic Park played the facts in a distorted manner to maximise the entertainment, why not this movie?
Cinema can educate and entertain, but it's not compulsory to do both. I don't complain that JP raptors are way to big, way too intelligent and lack any feathers. I'm too much of a geek to stand in the way of a good time.
You could say that my outline deviates from the truth so far that it shouldn't be linked with the AVG, but that slice of history is certainly a good starting point for some cinematic storytelling.
Shoot me down, I can take it.