Red Tails - 2012

[Hawk12]

Looks decent and quite a bit more promising than http://youtu.be/L8aUNa9PnRY ...

 

[HAL Pilot]

Looks decent and quite a bit more promising than http://youtu.be/L8aUNa9PnRY ...

That was so last week.....

http://www.airwarriors.com/communit...nk-my-battleship-2011-film.37523/#post-660146

 

[wink]

What a bummer! I thought maybe they made a movie about my old outfit, The Fighting Redtails.

 

[NightVisionPen]

I think the first one with Cuba was actually a made for TV movie, but I did enjoy it at the time. I haven't seen it in years. This version looks good as well.

 

[Roninja]

Seeing as I'm just finishing up Shattered Sword, it would be interesting to see someone come out and portray Midway as the two-sided clusterf**k it was instead of the Mother of All Naval Battles.

There's a 1968 Japanese film released by Toho called "Admiral Yamamoto". It stars Mifune Toshiro, who also played the same character in "Midway" 8 years later. However, "Midway" is so historically inaccurate by nowadays standards. I'm looking for the 4 hour director's cut of Midway which was only shown on TV.

 

[Roninja]

Same thing I thought when I saw this. It looks like it could be pretty good...but when is someone going to redo the Black Sheep series or make another Flying Tigers movie? I can only watch The Battle of Britain in blu ray so often...which, if you haven't seen, I HIGHLY recommend.

As far as the Tuskegee Airmen's escort record, they lost 25 bombers total over Europe.

From what I've heard, John Woo's making one about the Flying Tigers now. There should be a true historical movie about the Flying Tigers, not the one with John Wayne.

 

[Renegade One]

Holy Thread Resurrection, Batman! But speaking of all the above, there used to be a rumor floating around that Peter Jackson was going to do a re-make of "The Dambusters". There's one I'd like to see…

Best film version of the Battle of Midway I've seen is that chapter in the made-for-TV series "War and Remembrance".

 

[GroundPounder]

Holy Thread Resurrection, Batman! But speaking of all the above, there used to be a rumor floating around that Peter Jackson was going to do a re-make of "The Dambusters". There's one I'd like to see…

Best film version of the Battle of Midway I've seen is that chapter in the made-for-TV series "War and Remembrance".

I remember seeing a lot of chatter about a Dambusters remake, most of it centered around Guy Gibson VC DSO DFC and his dog's name. Peter Jackson has a few more years on his option, and supposedly has had 10 ( non airworthy ) Lancaster replicas built in NZ.

 

[Uncle Fester]

I'd still really like to see a good movie about the air war over Europe. Maybe another Spielberg/Hanks HBO joint miniseries in the vein of Band of Brothers. I vaguely remember a rumor that Spielberg had optioned The Wild Blue, but the idea was dropped after the plagiarism controversy.

 

[Pags]

I'd still really like to see a good movie about the air war over Europe. Maybe another Spielberg/Hanks HBO joint miniseries in the vein of Band of Brothers. I vaguely remember a rumor that Spielberg had optioned The Wild Blue, but the idea was dropped after the plagiarism controversy.

I thought HBO was making "The Mighty Eighth." There's a trailer on the interwebs for it.

 

[Uncle Fester]

I thought HBO was making "The Mighty Eighth." There's a trailer on the interwebs for it.

Oh? Hadn't heard that. I'll have to look it up.

 

[exNavyOffRec]

I'd still really like to see a good movie about the air war over Europe. Maybe another Spielberg/Hanks HBO joint miniseries in the vein of Band of Brothers. I vaguely remember a rumor that Spielberg had optioned The Wild Blue, but the idea was dropped after the plagiarism controversy.

I think something along the lines of Band of Brothers would have been nice, but it is too late for that as so many WWII veterans are gone, I think Spielberg and Hanks did that movie with no time to spare with the age of the WWII veterans, the input from those that were there just elevated that movie to a whole different level.