[WWI] o/t Alert! "Dam Busters" to be re-made by Peter Jackson

[Joel Christy]

Hi All,
   
  "A thorny question remains; what to call Gibson's beloved but controvertially-named dog, Nigger. To me that is PC gone mad. Mark Twain used it dozens of times in Huckleberry Finn and no one has changed that........YET!
   
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  Crusty Joel

Brad & Merville <bigglesrfc at sympatico.ca> wrote:
  Things are slow on the list today so I thought this might interest some of 
you. I was hoping his next would be a remake of The Blue Max or a film 
treatment of Winged Victory. I guess beggars can't be choosers.


Subject: [EAAWarbirds] "Dam Busters" to be re-made by Peter Jackson (Lord of 
the Rings, King Kong)


This could be *very* good....

Film director Peter Jackson is working on a spectacular £100million
remake of the classic Second World War film The Dam Busters, complete
with stunning special effects.
Jackson, renowned for the astonishing computer graphics in his Lord
Of The Rings and King Kong movies, will have to work with Sir David
Frost, who last year bought the rights to Paul Brickhill's 1951 book
about 617 Squadron's daring low-level bombing of German dams.

New Zealander Jackson, a selfconfessed 'war buff', has a lifelong
interest in British military history after being inspired by a
childhood visit to London's Imperial War Museum. He owns replicas of
two First World War fighters and a tank and spent £50,000 of his own
money restoring the only film of Anzac troops at Gallipoli.

He recently spent a day filming one of the last surviving Lancaster
bombers in preparation for the remake of the much-loved 1954 black-
and-white film, which starred Richard Todd as Wing Commander Guy
Gibson and Michael Redgrave as the eccentric Barnes Wallis, who
invented the 'bouncing bomb'.

Jackson, 44, met a group of RAF veterans in New Zealand who restored
the plane. A source said: 'It was clear just how much he knew about
warplanes. We believe the footage is to help his special

effects team. 'Peter has been in contact with the old crewmen, who
are well into their 80s. I believe he is helping to create a memorial
to the New Zealand airmen who flew bombers, including those who died
in the Dam Busters mission.'

Codenamed Operation Chastise, the 1943 raid is one of the most famous
military operations. Gibson hand-picked crews from other Lancaster
squadrons to fly at low level to destroy three heavily protected dams
in the industrial Ruhr Valley.

The Mohne and Eder dams were breached using Wallis's extraordinary
bouncing bomb. To be effective, the revolving mine had to be released
while flying at precisely 220mph, 60ft above the water and 425 yards
from a dam. A spokesman for

Richard Todd said: 'The Dam Busters is very close to his heart and he
wishes them the best of luck.'

Jackson is sending his assistant Matt Dravitski to the annual Dam
Busters reunion this month at Petwood Hotel, near Lincoln, which had
been 617 Squadron's wartime mess. Of the 19 Lancasters that took off
from nearby RAF Scampton on May 16, 1943, eight failed to return and
56 airmen were killed.

But a thorny question remains: What to call Gibson's beloved but now
controversially-named dog, Nigger. Sir David Frost said: 'The word
Nigger is not ideal for the modern world. But the real challenge is
to make the film as good as, or better than, the original.' The
famous theme music by Eric Coates will stay. Sir David said: 'It
would be crazy to change it.'


(if the link does a 'wrap' across the line... you'll need to copy the
whole thing and paste it in)
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/pages/live/articles/showbiz/showbiznews.
html?in_article_id=385374&in_page_id=1773&in_a_source=&ct=5






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