Your War Movie Script

[RabidAlien]

Hey, here's a thought....something about a P-61 squadron!!! They were supposed to have one do a fly-over in "Great Raid" (it was called in and dropped some flares or something at dusk, to distract the Japanese guards and allow the Rangers to advance across some 200 yards of open field. In reality, it worked. In the movie, they just sorta teleported across.). I would LOVE to see one of those in action!

 

[Lucky13]

Nightfighters.....both allied and axis!

Most important....all would speak their own native languages...

 

[Freebird]

Jeez how did I miss this thread! Good one Njaco.

Great idea for a thread this!

Operation Pedestal

Operation Pedastal would be a good one! Play off both sides and the way they planned and executed. That would be a good one.

Operation Pedestal? What is that?


JUST KIDDING!!!!!

{See Siggy!}

That would make the most awesome movie!

Have you guys read the whole account?
They have an excellent chronicle on "WWII cruisers" - Check it out under "Actions 3"

World War 2 Cruisers

That was the most unbelievable effort to get the "Ohio" into port after the keel was broken, they strapped it between 2 destroyers and kept chugging along even as the deck was partly on fire the LW kept bombing them!

 

[Njaco]

Yep, only I've read alot from the Luftwaffe side. Amazing what the "Ohio" did, along with alot of others.

See, theres a battle with all the elements that would make a great movie. have some key characters from both sides, the planning of both, and the action and the bittersweet ending of the "Ohio" and the Luftwaffe.

Are the Cohen Brothers available? Maybe Quentin?

 

[Freebird]

Yep, only I've read alot from the Luftwaffe side. Amazing what the "Ohio" did, along with alot of others.

See, theres a battle with all the elements that would make a great movie. have some key characters from both sides, the planning of both, and the action and the bittersweet ending of the "Ohio" and the Luftwaffe.

Are the Cohen Brothers available? Maybe Quentin?

The Ohio was actually crewed by British Merchant Marine. After the ship's keel broke it caught on fire they were evacuated to the DD's. The RN commander in charge then asked for RN volunteers to go back on to try to get it under tow. The original MM captain said "WTF"? If somebody is going back on it is the original crew!

Who would you have as the Ohio's captain?

I was thinking Sean Connery? Robert Shaw?

 

[Njaco]

ummm, Shaw died in the 70s.

Connery would be good - as long as he kept that embarrassing Russian accent away.

Hey, could we have one of the Baldwin brothers on an escort ship look up and get wacked by a 500lber dropped from a Stuka?

Ok, Heres the cast:

Vice-Admiral E. N. Syfret - overall operational commander / HMS Nelson
Rear-Admiral H. M. Burrough -
A.G. Venables - Convoy Commodore
Captain Dudley W. Mason - SS Ohio
Frederick August Larsen, Jr., - Junior Third Officer / crew member on the Santa Elisa volunteer to man guns on Ohio during tow.
Francis A. Dales, - Cadet-Midshipman/ crew member on the Santa Elisa volunteer to man guns on Ohio during tow.


Kapitänleutnant Helmut Rosenbaum - U-73
Field Marshal Albert Kesselring - commander of the German Air Command based in Sicily.
Oberst Franz von Benda - Geschwaderkommodore LG 1
Obstlt Freiherr von Maltzahn - Geschwaderkommodore JG 27
Maj Heinz Bär - Gruppenkommandeur I./JG 77

What actors to fill these roles?

 

[pbfoot]

A movie that will be released in a couple of months looks like it might be OK
Passchendale "In Love, There Is Only One Rule... Don?t Die"

 

[Freebird]

ummm, Shaw died in the 70s.

Connery would be good - as long as he kept that embarrassing Russian accent away.

Hey! You didn't say that it was only current living actors!

 

[Soren]

Just saw that new Finnish war movie, it was actually pretty good. The explosions were impressive. However there was a serious lack of certain effects which could've perfected the movie. Someting as simple as a little blood squirt or puff when someone got hit, either done by CGI or practical means, instead of them just falling over without a single sign of them having been hit. Now that having been said the trips, falls etc etc all looked pretty good.

 

[Njaco]

What movie was that, Soren?

 

[Soren]

Talvisota, or The Winter War.

 

[Soren]

Hmm... it's from 1989 according to imdb ?? That's a pretty long wait for it to get in stores in Scandinavia..

 

[Njaco]

Thanks, I'll have to look that up. Never heard of it before.