War Movies that should be remade

[Nefarious]

Flight of the Intruder needs a remake that is faithful to the novel.

Yes. +1.

[Scherf]

The guy or the city? 

Good point, I guess we'd now have to do Gerda Does Gdansk.

[SIK1]

Good to hear that originals involving WWII are still being made.

How about war films we would like to see made?

"The Jolly Rogers!" (Exploits of VF-17)

Scene one

The Atlantic off of Morocco.

A pilot is adrift in his one-man raft. His mind is adrift, as well.

Backflash moments: Annapolis, flight training, bad weather in the F4F, Santee not responding, the ditch.

The scene gives way back to the present. A motor launch is there, sailors are pulling him into the boat. A destroyer is not far off.

Arlo, I would love to see an accurate account of VF-17's exploits made into a movie. I just do not have any faith that Hollywood could do it. Just look at what they did to "Red Tails". 

[Arlo]

Arlo, I would love to see an accurate account of VF-17's exploits made into a movie. I just do not have any faith that Hollywood could do it. Just look at what they did to "Red Tails". 

That's a risk, that's for sure. Guess it depends on the screenplay.

[SmokinLoon]

Zulu (tho' I cringe at what the PC crowd would do it it)

I agree.  I'd love to see Zulu and Zulu Dawn both remade.  I certainly understand your concern on the Hollywierd PC thing, but Blackhawk Down was done fair enough so I'd hope the two Zulu movies could be done in the same spirit.  Besides, the Zulu Dawn movie has plenty of PC BS already in it.  It couldn't get too much worse???

[SIK1]

It couldn't get too much worse???

Famous last words right there.

[Plawranc]

The Battle Of Britain would be good with all the CGI. But there aren't enough decent actors to pull it off without some serious cast searches. Plus its market would be too small to be commercially viable so no one would touch it.

If one war movie could be remade I think I would re-do The Longest Day. And tie it in with Band of Brothers. Simply because you can tie Saving Private Ryan and Band Of Brothers together, make it completely historically accurate, and pull a "Valkyrie" with look-alike stars. And because It is linked to SPR and BOB it would be a huge commercial success. (I know SPR didn't happen but the Pointe Du Hoc scene with the Rangers would be great for a Tom Hanks "reprise"). For example, the 82nd Paratrooper who gets lost, the 101st guys he runs into could be a cameo for the BoB team.

I know it sounds a bit cheesy on paper, but I think it would be awesome.

[Old Sport]

Off the top of my head I really can't think of one single movie that's been redone better than the original. How can you possibly top Cary Grant in Run Silent Run Deep? They just don't make actors like that anymore.

Huh. The Run Silent Run Deep I remember had Clark Gable, Burt Lancaster and Don Rickles. Maybe the  one you are talking about was redone??? 

[RngFndr]

Cary Grant in a Pink Sub with Tony Curtis and a bunch of hot navy Nurses???
Operation Petticoat!

Cary Grant and Leslie Caron, on an island with a bunch children hiding from the Japanese..
Father Goose!  

[Arlo]

Destination Tokyo is Cary Grant's 1943 submarine movie with John Garfield, Alan Hale and John Ridgely.

http://www.tcm.com/mediaroom/video/411208/Destination-Tokyo-Movie-Clip-Doll-On-A-Submarine.html

Methinks Uptown was making a funny.

[RngFndr]

For some reason, I sometimes get Cary Grant and Clark Gable mixed up too..
Odd, the only thing similar between them is their initials, CG..
Silly but true

[Fulcrum]

I agree.  I'd love to see Zulu and Zulu Dawn both remade.  I certainly understand your concern on the Hollywierd PC thing, but Blackhawk Down was done fair enough so I'd hope the two Zulu movies could be done in the same spirit.  Besides, the Zulu Dawn movie has plenty of PC BS already in it.  It couldn't get too much worse???

Never, EVAH, underestimate the anti-capitalist / anti-colonial outlook of the movies makers over in the Peoples Republic of California.  Was colonialism great?  No.  But do we have to make every movie a statement on how bad the West is and the world would be a better place if we all just fell into the sea?  No.

Rant over.  Sorry.   

[artik]

Why nobody writes down

"Perl Harbor"

It is one of the most horrible Hollywood war crimes...

WTF: both are the heroes of Perl Harbor & fly in the Doolittle raid & one of them is one of the few US volunteers in RAF & and accidentally in love with the same nurse - that also based on a real character 

How many super heroes Hollywood needs... Seriously  

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[Fulcrum]

Ideas for war movies I would love to see:

1.) The Battle for Coronel - This battle is so unknown in the US I doubt it would ever get made. The heroism and tragedy of the Royal Navy squadron fighting the crack Imperial German East Asia squadron far from home.   The noble but fatalistic Vice Admiral von Spee.  The professional and charismatic Rear Admiral Cradock.  The idiocy of the orders given to Cradock by the Admiralty (under a young but inexperienced Wiston Churchill).  Cradock's determination to carry out those orders knowing they were a death sentence.  It's got epic all over it.

2.) The Battle of the Falkland Islands (WWI) - A sequel for the above.  Same basic theme, but now reversed with the Germans the tragic protagonists far from home doomed to die fighting the far more powerful Royal Navy battlecruisers.

3.) Jutland - So much here I don't know where to start.....

4.) The Israel Air Force during the Six Day War or Yom Kippur War.  I'm sure, given the sensitivity of the subject, it would never get made...but one day I'd love to see Mirage IIIs dogfighting Hawker Hunters, MiG-17 and MiG-21s over the desert.  

[Arlo]

I know it's not the battle of your fourth suggestion but have you seen 'Cast a Giant Shadow?'

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cast_a_Giant_Shadow

Another movie I've found very interesting (and only discovered a couple of years ago, to my amazement) is Seven Days in May.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058576/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_51