Lucas to make WWII Air Movie

[Vudak]

Originally posted by Eagler
like to see a movie about BOB from the LW pilot view
or any ETO air combat movie from the german pov

It would be interesting to follow JG26 from the Battle of Britain to the Circuses to D-Day and beyond.

[Red Tail 444]

Originally posted by 1K3
http://filmforce.ign.com/articles/657/657069p1.html

man i wanna see this guy put some magic touch on WWII air armada slugfest, Star Wars style

How the hell is Darth gonna fit inside a C.202 with headgear like that?

[Red Tail 444]

Originally posted by Yeager
Actually, the 357th would have been a better unit to portray.

I just hope this is better than the last Red Tails movie.

Agreed. That last movie was painful to watch, so many inaccuracies it almost did the Tuskgee Airmen a disservice. Still, it was barely better than nothing. I do find it odd, however, that you're quick to attack men who did exactly the same thing every other war veteran did in defense of their country.

ATA, Groin, Storch, Other than them being black, what has any of those vets done to justify your response? If you ever met any one of them, and I'm pretty sure you haven't, you'd learn a bit more about history, too. to their credit, not one of them mentioned the BS they went through in training, but the same type of comraderie and kinship that every other armed forces unit had during the war.

I'm not sure if you lack the intelligence to comprehend the similarity, or too pained to acknowledge them.

[storch]

the fantasy of flight museum in Polk City, Florida has a very nice commemorative display for the tuskeegee airmen and also a finely restored P51C in redtail livery.  http://www.fantasyofflight.com

[eagl]

Yea he's making another movie, but insider reports hint that to prevent piracy, Lucas has sworn that the film will never actually be SHOWN to anyone.  Rumor has it that the film will be not-shown for one year, and then digitally remastered to match his original vision, and released on DVD.  To fight piracy, the released DVDs will not actually contain the movie but will instead contain 2 hours of watermarks and corrupted datastreams that can only be seen if you buy a new dvd player, cable, and television.  The televisions however will not actually display anything to prevent camcorder copying, the cable will not contain any data lines so it cannot be spliced, and the dvd player is actually a cd shredder.

Lucas predicts this will finally result in one of his movies making a profit for the very first time, and industry officials led by the MPAA and Film Actors Guild have released statements supporting Lucas' anti-piracy efforts.

[Hawco]

Originally posted by StarOfAfrica2
2 weeks

ROFL !!!!!!

[Ball]

Germans vs. the Ruskies would be good.

Like Requiem, but a film

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVlFfG0n3Oo

[Stang]

Is Jar-Jar gonna fly a P-51?

[Squire]

Naw, it will be Steve Erkel in a scarf and goggles.

http://www.kellie.de/fm1/fm_urkel.jpg

[Charon]

Yea he's making another movie, but insider reports hint that to prevent piracy, Lucas has sworn that the film will never actually be SHOWN to anyone. Rumor has it that the film will be not-shown for one year, and then digitally remastered to match his original vision, and released on DVD. To fight piracy, the released DVDs will not actually contain the movie but will instead contain 2 hours of watermarks and corrupted datastreams that can only be seen if you buy a new dvd player, cable, and television. The televisions however will not actually display anything to prevent camcorder copying, the cable will not contain any data lines so it cannot be spliced, and the dvd player is actually a cd shredder.

Lucas predicts this will finally result in one of his movies making a profit for the very first time, and industry officials led by the MPAA and Film Actors Guild have released statements supporting Lucas' anti-piracy efforts.

Due to the poor audience reaction to the water mark version, studio execs forced Lucas to release the actual movie. Several years later came the first of some 20 tweaked, remastered, reedited, adjusted, colorized and monochromed "special" editions that allowed virtually the same content to be resold repeatedly at great profit to his increasingly fanatical fan base.
There was some outcry among purist fans of the original, due to his "creative prerogative" at changing the original World War 2 aerial combat scenes to bunny rabbit pillow fights. Apparently the original vision was an "Incomplete Vision," though critics note the new footage increases the merchandising opportunities in the 8-12 year old demographic that had been underserved previously. "It's my dammed move, and I reserve the right to screw with it a hundred more times if I see fit -- fans be dammed," said Lucas.

Charon

[Guppy35]

Originally posted by DREDIOCK
Ohh goody. Another film about the same group they made a film about already.

That went against largley 3rd and 4th string opposition

I'll wait for the DVD

And you base this comment on what?  I'd like to see you make that stick with a bunch of 12th and 15th AF guys along with the RAF pilots who flew in that theater.

Guessing the LW pilots would question that comment too

[Sweet2th]

Haven't we had enough "group of black guys overcome The Man and prove themselves" movies in the last 10 years?

I have met 7 of those pilots and i have the utmost respect for all of them and every other veteran.They are the only Fighter Squadron to never lose a bomber they were protecting.Read that again---" They never lost 1 single bomber they were protecting !"

I personally think Ted Turner did a crappy job on the last film even though it was packed with outstanding actors and they deserve better than that.

[Shuckins]

Lucas doesn't know that any fighter other than the P-51 played an important role in the outcome of the war.

A better movie could be made about the struggle for control of the skies in and around Rabaul and Lae....told from the standpoint of both the Japanese AND American pilots that took part.

[DREDIOCK]

Originally posted by Guppy35
And you base this comment on what?  I'd like to see you make that stick with a bunch of 12th and 15th AF guys along with the RAF pilots who flew in that theater.

Guessing the LW pilots would question that comment too

Based on the point when they were activly allowed to fully participate in the war.

After 4-5 years of fighting Most of the very best or at least the most experianced german pilots had already been lost.

" The qualitative superiority manifested itself both regarding the technical field and pilot training. The Allied fighters generally were superior to the German Bf 109 G and Fw 190 A in service in 1944. Moreover, at this stage, the quality of the Luftwaffe pilot standard was being worn down to a mere shadow of what it had once been, and this was the result of a terrible attrition in a long fight against numerically superior US formations over Germany" http://www.bergstrombooks.elknet.pl/normandy.htm

Not saying these guys from tuskeegee werent any good.
In fact they were.
And they can actually owe how good they were to the prejudices they faced.

Because they werent treated the same as their white conterparts  this gave them added time to train which their allied white counterparts in didnt get to have. And the german pilots to that point were trained even less

In the end that added training paid off.
thus they inadvertently benifited from the very prejudices they were subjected to.

[bj229r]

Originally posted by Sweet2th
I have met 7 of those pilots and i have the utmost respect for all of them and every other veteran.They are the only Fighter Squadron to never lose a bomber they were protecting.Read that again---" They never lost 1 single bomber they were protecting !"

I personally think Ted Turner did a crappy job on the last film even though it was packed with outstanding actors and they deserve better than that.

We heard that umteen times in the FIRST movie, which, horrible as it might be, has been shown a hundred frikkin times. Now they have to go back and trash the 'greatest generation' as a bunch of racists--which is most certainly what the new film will focus on. (A film about minorities overcoming obscatles is a GREAT way to get nominated for an academy award)