The Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson is to remake classic British war film The Dam Busters, he has told film industry trade paper Screen Daily.

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“This is a tale you will tell your grandchildren, and mightily bored they’ll be.” Lt. Gen. Brian Horrocks commander of British XXX Corps September 16, 1944 prior to Operation Market.

I wonder who'll play the part of Nigger

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that should be fairly good, i must watch to judge though...

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"Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning." -Winston Churchill

Sorry Peter Jackson but you failed to beat the classic King Kong of the 1930's so I am not holding my breath. The proof is in the pudding, we shall see what his results are of remaking the classic, The Dam Busters.

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"Open channel D"

The classy actors are all old or gone. Niven, Fox, Caine.

New actors are trying to hard to be something that they are not. Why can't they develop their own style??

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'We march. The enemy is retreating in transport. We follow on foot.' Lt.Neil McCallum 5/7 Gordons 19th November 1942

It'll be a disaster - if it ever happens.

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"Stand by to pull me out of the seat if I get hit" - Guy Gibson

personally

he ought to take on a Monte Cassino tribute .....

I vote Chris Lloyd to play Barnes Wallace


Well, don't tell me they're going to have British actors playing Britsh roles, how would that sell in America .

How about Richard Gere for the lead? No not to play Gibson, I was thinking of the lead for Nigger - after all, if he played Gibson how would they get the oxygen mask over his nose .

No.9

In the famous words of Top Gear host Jeremy.
'... how Ben Affleck won the battle of Britain against that terrible Sir Winston Hitler...'

Does anybody know how Hugh Grant is getting along with his movie tribute to his grandfather James Murray Grant?

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'We march. The enemy is retreating in transport. We follow on foot.' Lt.Neil McCallum 5/7 Gordons 19th November 1942

The first question is will there be Lancasters in the film? or shall we find the real truth there were B-17´s actually?



I also hope there will be great personalities starring in it and not like the Star Wars where in the last two episodes it was like " Hey all my friends get to play a part in the film!"

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Hey guys,

I don't know what to think. I've seen the original and I loved it. I'm skeptical with the way movies are being made today but, I'm also optimistic that he'll stay to what is correct.

I don't think you'll see B-17's, instead of Avro Lancasters...Kai, now thats preposterous. Lets give the guy a little credit.

I think it would be interesting to give them another test run. But, how about casting the majority of the Band of Brothers cast into this film? Not all of them clearly but, most of them were english actors...why not see what they can do in an English format instead of like the "BoB" American format.

Just my $0.02....

Regards,
MARNE

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"ROCK OF THE MARNE"
Sgt. James Dunigan III
Able Co., U.S. 30th Infantry Regiment
U.S. 3rd Infantry Division(Reenacted)

Of course, brilliant Kai, Nigger is played by Chubaka!



Then, when Nigger gets run over, Gibson climbs into his Millennium Avro B-1701A, fly’s anti-clockwise around the globe at Warp 7.2 to reverse time, lands before the crash and saves his precious Nigger by bouncing him down a flooded road at the approaching car, which falls apart on contact, giving its driver, Barnes Wallace, the idea for the bouncing bomb to use on the dams. On the raid, Gibson takes Nigger along as co-pilot, who gets sucked out of the cockpit after flak blows a hole in it, gets caught by a propeller which spins him up to 8½ thousand rpm, whereafter he fly’s off at a tangent, skips along the water and demolishes all the dams in quick succession – because the Germans really built them one behind the other - flooding the whole of Germany and drowning Hitler. Whereupon the Ark of the Covenant floats to the surface, lid opens to a golden glow with sparkly bits, and a voice proclaims ”Oy vay, I’ve flooded evil before and it was time to do it again!”, The world is saved along with Nigger who climbs into the Ark and surfs to safety. Gibson goes on to marry Princess Eva Brunhilder and makes a fortune after perfecting the self-loading Labrador and the Inter Continental Ballistic Shitsu.

I like it - can’t wait for the prequel showing Gibson as a child growing up on his uncle’s farm for dyslexic goats near Dagenham, Nebraska .

No.9

Sounds like we have the plot here ready and waiting, No 9!



Marne, I do believe Mr Jackson did show what a great man he is with his work of the "Ring" series. However, the marketing powers can make some strange things happen, but I hope not this time!

On the persons playing positions I fear we´ll be seeing some the following:











( Just afraid Mr Stiller might be willing to go for a serious part??!)

ALso Mel Gibson might need a bit of a "face-lift" with his career,right?

ANd Arnold would be perfect for the German side??

PS. I always thought "Chewie" would have deserved a series of his own. The youngsters with Eva?

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interesting

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The war against Russia will be such that it cannot be conducted in a knightly fashion. This struggle is one of ideologies and racial differences and will have to be conducted with unprecedented, unmerciful and unrelenting harshness. -Adolf Hitler

Whatever you feel Kai. My only reservation is with Dicraprio, unless he plays Nigger's bone or perhaps the peasant the first test bomb bounces on .

Speaking of the first test bomb, how about Maradona .


No.9

yes # 9 a great looking Lanc pilot but even better yet given his correct bodily dimensions maybe a bomb ?

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I don´t mind actually even if we have total strangers doing the acting if they fit the script and add to the film. However several stars with ongoing deals might be interested/sent by their studios to get their name back up in the head lines so that´s the group I was expecting to be in the queue for the film as Mr Jackson is close to being the "hottest" film director at the moment.

BTW, Maradona already in the "bombing run" during rehearsals...

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Hey Kai,

I wouldn't knock Ben Stiller just yet. We haven't even seen him in a serious role yet. So, who are we to judge? You can't compare it when you don't have anything to compare it too.

Ben Stiller played a small role next to John Malcovich in "Emprie of The Sun" which I though was a great film for its time, which was done by Spielberg. The role in which you see him in the film he did a pretty good job. AND it was a serious role....(gasp) not a serious role!

Regards,
MARNE

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Sgt. James Dunigan III
Able Co., U.S. 30th Infantry Regiment
U.S. 3rd Infantry Division(Reenacted)

Well we've got someone to play the bomb then. He can dive and he can bounce .

If they ever remake 'Fat Man and Little Boy' he'd be in like Flynn for sure .

No.9

In true hollywood fashion, Nigger number 9 will be played by an American Bull Mastif specially bred from American stock and will be renamed spirit of Freedom.

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I really don't understand why 're-makes' of classic movies are made. Are they ever truly successful ?

Let's think of a few...'Flight Of The Phoenix' sank without leaving a ripple, 'Get Carter' was so embarrassing it didn't even get a UK release, etc etc. And as for 'Memphis Belle'... [img]graemlins/no.gif[/img]

Why don't they try to re-make 'Casablanca'? Because you can't ....it is of its time, with the right actors, the right music, the right script, and you just can't recreate the time and the chemistry.

And I really don't think it can be done with 'The Dam Busters'.

Anyhow, just look at my avatar - you can't expect me to be unbiased !

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"Stand by to pull me out of the seat if I get hit" - Guy Gibson

Fair enough urqh, but he’d have to be able to bark with a phoney British accent . Perhaps they could get Richard Gere to coach him – or perhaps Dick Van Dogg .

”Arf a mo guv’nor”, and ”allo me ‘ole China” and all the other expressions I grew-up in London hearing and saying .


Martin, I think its pathetic that the film business has sunk to the depths of the music industry where there is such a void of creative talent that an increasing number stoop to recycling other people’s ideas. They don’t even make the effort to plagiarise any more, just a straight up-front rip-off. I accept a re-make IF there is genuinely something to add, or the original was good in concept but poorly made.

One film I enjoy for itself is Kenneth Branagh’s Henry V, but I also still enjoy Olivier’s ’44 version.



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ANy news on the film this year?

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