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Title: Flyboys, the movie... Oct 13
Post by: Waffle on May 23, 2006, 11:25:14 AM

http://www.flyboysthemovie.com  


Nope, not the ww2 book made into a movie, but a ww1 flick. Done by the dude from Independence Day (so some cg) as well as lot of live action footage.

looks interesting.

Title: Flyboys, the movie... Oct 13
Post by: Airscrew on May 23, 2006, 11:41:51 AM

I predict "Pearl Harbor with BiPlanes"  
at first it looked like it might be good, until I read the casting list.  Jean Reno is the only one there I like and would watch.   I'll probably end up seeing it just for the planes :lol

Title: Flyboys, the movie... Oct 13
Post by: Waffle on May 23, 2006, 12:02:22 PM

lol - funny - just looked at this months Air & Space smithsonian magazine and there's an article in there. One thing I did notice is that they didn't want to use CG for planes, so they've got around  5  Nieuport 17s, some are ultra light fabrications, 2 fokker DR-1s,  a Sopwith 1-/2 strutter, Bleriot XI, Bristol F-2, and a SE-5a. They did say they will use some cg for putting together some of  the actual dogfighting.

Title: Flyboys, the movie... Oct 13
Post by: Tarmac on May 23, 2006, 01:29:34 PM

wtf, you need a password to view the trailer?

At least there are no big names in it, so maybe it won't totally suck.

Title: Flyboys, the movie... Oct 13
Post by: Eagler on May 23, 2006, 01:58:29 PM

read it in Air & Space also ..
amazing they could build 3 Nieuports in less than 60 days ..

Title: Flyboys, the movie... Oct 13
Post by: rpm on May 23, 2006, 10:13:56 PM

I was just thinking (dangerous, I know) it would probably be cheaper to build some of those old stick and cloth kites than it would be to CGI them. But, I'm sure a corporate insurance company guy was worried about losing some precious profit and bonuses.

Title: Re: Flyboys, the movie... Oct 13
Post by: DiabloTX on May 24, 2006, 02:10:31 AM

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Originally posted by Waffle BAS
Nope, not the ww2 book made into a movie...

That book was so intense, I really hope no one in Hollywood gets a wild hair up thier you-know-what and tries to write a screenplay based on it.


Man, that was some morbid, morbid **** in that book.

Title: Flyboys, the movie... Oct 13
Post by: Pongo on July 26, 2006, 07:31:01 PM

flyboys would make an interesting movie.

Title: Flyboys, the movie... Oct 13
Post by: SunKing on July 26, 2006, 11:00:55 PM

Just in time for the movie.

Someone is making a WWI flight sim using the IL-2 engine.

Link (http://www.gennadich.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1498)

Title: Flyboys, the movie... Oct 13
Post by: Debonair on July 27, 2006, 12:17:33 AM

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Originally posted by Eagler
read it in Air & Space also ..
amazing they could build 3 Nieuports in less than 60 days ..

there are plenty of Nieuports available...The Noon Patrol (http://www.eaa292.org/noonpatrol.html)