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Bruckheimer Heads Back To World War II & Sets About KILLING ROMMEL!!
Merrick here...
While Singer and Cruise are angling to snuff out Hitler in VALKYRIE, Jerry Bruckheimer is interested in KILLING ROMMEL.
Randall Wallace (who wrote BRAVEHEART for Gibson and PEARL HARBOR for Bay & Bruckheimer) will script, adapting a recently published book by Stephen Pressfield (HERE).
"Killing Rommel" focuses on the British Long Range Desert Group and its attempt to stop Rommel, the legendary Desert Fox who routed the British in the North African desert in 1942 and threatened to overrun the Middle East thanks to his battlefield strategies and Panzer tanks.
...says THIS ARTICLE in Variety.
You can find more about Pressfield's book (thus, presumably, get a hint of Jerry's film) via this embed, hosted by the author:
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Hillary Clinton is now the new running mate.
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you had me at "the writer of pearl harbor"!also, Lost is a show that gets better and better, and the war in Iraq is a huge success...
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Sep 03, 2008 12:30:14 AM CDT
Rommel is one of the greatest Generals of all time
by cannabis holocaust
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As a military history nut this looks excellent. One of the most fascinating stories of WW2, these guys were tough as nails, they invented the term Commando. Can't fecking wait!
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...Rommel should have watched more of The Wire. You don't criticise the system, or you get pwned.
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These boys became the SAS later on in the war. As the motto says "who dares wins"!
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I love stories about the birth of the awsome s.a.s. Good movies about the s.a.s and other special forces are rare but this could be great I think.
Pressfield's Gates Of Fire is my fave book ever.
And yes Fuqua would be a good selection. Training Day rocks and there are good parts in Tears Of The Sun, Shooter and King Arthur dir cut.
But I would prefer if someone like Tony Scott, Ridley Scott, Paul Greengrass or the guy who did Tropa De Elite directs this thing. And Hans Zimmer should do the score. This will be the best movie of 2010 if it is ready by then. -
Bravo Two Zero and The One That Got Away. I know there are movies of both these but Imagine what a Paul Greengrass could do with The One That Got Away now as opposed to the first time.
I would also like to se Bloody Heroes, Operation Certain Death and please let Peter Berg do Lone Survivor. -
Have anybody read this great part fictional book about Navy Seals training? A fantastic book that would make a great movie.
Read this book about the brutal traing to become a Navy Seal
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You can't mention Rommel without mentioning Monty, or is this going to be another Hollywood rewrite? ala U-571
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IN A WORLD WHERE TRAILERS CAN NO LONGER BE VOICED OVER....
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Hmmm.
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Sep 03, 2008 5:04:43 AM CDT
Rommel needs a good badass movie
by guy who got a headache and accidentally
This won't be it.
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seriously.
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How much you wanna bet they paint Rommel as some type of nazi-bastard that shoots war wounded and bombs hospital tents, when it was actually the British who did that while Rommel made sure to adhere to a honor code and respect the rules of war. Rommel used to cut water rations for his own men just to make sure prisoners had water, he ignored orders from Hitler to execute Commandos/French fighters, he made sure war wounded received proper medical care, he would stop attacks just to let the other side gather their wounded/dead, and he cared a great deal about the men under his command. His only big error was getting briefly associated with the Hitler assassination plot because the conspirators knew the Allies respected him greatly and might negotiate with him rather then some member of the Nazi party(Rommel didn't support the assassination idea when approached, he wanted to put Hitler on trial instead). Because Rommel was such a hero in that country, he was basically given the Godfather 2 option: Kill yourself by drinking this poison, and your family/staff will be protected and we'll give you a state funeral and none will be the wiser except us. It's too bad, really. Rommel also recognized that the Russians were going to be the real problem. There's a famous story about how his men captured a British Commando in the months before D-Day. The Commando shook Rommel's hand and said it was an honor. Rommel then mentioned that they really should stop fighting each other and team up vs. Russia. Rommel then arranged it so the Commando would be treated as a normal prisoner of war and had him sent to a less nasty POW camp.
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About time someone made a big film about the British/German North African campaign of WW2. Someone should make a film about General Slim's Forgotten 14th Army fighting the Japanese in Burma.
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Yay U-4w35342! - or whatever that shitty movie is called
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Yeah, he was a swell guy ... except for the fact that he was fighting for a regime that systematically exterminated 6 million people.
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Ah yes, another awesome topic that will be assassinated by shitty execution. I can't wait!
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I am so sick of "ing" titles that explain exactly what the plot of a movie is. I'll forgive that shit for small time indie films, because it's probably not the only amateurish aspect to them anyway. But, when something like this, or SAVING PRIVATE RYAN, succumb to the "ing" title, it just looks and sounds cheap.
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He was a German first and foremost, so his loyalty was still to his country. He never supported Nazi doctrine and it's debatable if he even knew about the Jewish extermination going on. The fact he BURNED orders from Hitler that stated any military prisoners captured in non-military clothing or French fighters were to be executed on the spot and expressed disgust with said order makes me think he wouldn't be keen with the idea of civilian slaughter.
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Yaaayyy!!! Let's team up and beat Russia!!! I bet their's lots more Jews to kill there!!!!
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"Rommel then mentioned that they really should stop fighting each other and team up vs. Russia." would be better if he had said "Rommel then mentioned that they really should stop fighting each other"
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Why won't my backspace key work? And why is Tab going backward? Is this site fucked up or something?
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How do you think he feels about scripting Braveheart for Gibson followed by Pearl Harbor? Who knows, maybe his Pearl Harbor treatment solid and Bay just took a shit right on the pages?
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Finding Forrester. Feeling Minnesota. Finding Neverland. Fucking lame. Oddly enough, I don't mind it when they use a full name in the title (Kissing Jessica Stein, Forgetting Sarah Marshall). Strange. Why is everyone giving Alientoast a hard time? What he said about Rommel is very accurate.
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Which means we'll get cliche after cliche, plus a few anachronisms here and there. Big epic speeches, epic battles, basically all the stuff that was parodied in Tropic Thunder. Stick with The Downfall instead for a great WW2 movie.
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Well, I mention Russia because right after WW2 ended, look at the little thing called the "Cold War" which sprung up. That's part of the reason why the US started to grant amnesty for Nazis or other questionable people who were involved heavily with Eastern Front intel, etc. They didn't care what they had done from an ethical standpoint, they just wanted the expertise to help combat the new threat.
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Nuff said
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*Rommel lives*
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Rommel killed himself. There, ending spoiler. Honestly, Randall Wallace should be skewered on 17th century rapiers for what he did to the Three Musketeers in The Man in the Iron Mask. As for Braveheart, yeah, it looked good, but what the hell? Why change the history when the real events concerning William Wallace are much more dramatic than anything Randall Wallace could make up? Also, last thing, hope this movie doesn't follow Hollywood convention about WWII in North Africa by making it entirely Germans vs. Brits. Most of the soldiers under Rommel's command were Italians. He was the only general, German or Italian, who got much of anything out of 'em. And if Hitler's in the movie, make it Bruno Ganz from Downfall. Henceforth, he must be Hitler in every movie that has a Hitler. And also every movie that doesn't have a Hitler. The big question is, will the Germans use accents or speak German or speak plain English...
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than valkyrie. I LOVE this idea. P.S. your post really should have mentioned the greatness of We Were Soldiers. Give the man some props.
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That's a joke right...? My sarcasm filter must be on the fritz again. :P
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come on, give the guy a break. He and Ridlehy Scott did very well with Black Hawk Down. I think this will be awsome and true to the real events as well.
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That's how I always thought of him.
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And Bruno Ganz gets yet another chance to play Hitler!!!!!!
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I want my own Tiger Tank so I can run over my enemies and crush their bones to paste.
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on my desk is a 3 pound lug nut that was supposed to secure the oil pan on the bottom of Rommel's tanks. It was one of thousands that were dumped into the river and never installed. 30 minutes after being driven off of boats, the tanks shut down in the african sand, and there were no parts available to fix them. He operated with less than one fourth the number of armored vehicles he was supposed to have at his disposal. He kept one and now it holds down invoices on my desk.
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Tanks shooting each other point blank and as they explode, flipping over each other. Or injecting a love triangle story element because goddamnit World War 2 just isn't interesting enough on it's own, and we want this to be the new Titanic!
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Oh yeah, I hear ya brother!
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just like PATTON was to Patton. And he has to be played by Ed Harris who has an uncanny resemblance and has even played a german soldier person before
http://www.geocities.com/mushkah3/Untitled-4_clip_image056.jpg
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WW 2 movies please! One of my favorite subgenres. Just keep John Woo very very far away. i mean how do you screw up Windtalkers? It should have been a gimme for Christ's sake.
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Keep him away as well. Although I am normally a fan of Wallace, his script for Pearl Harbor was shit. A fucking love triangle???? He turned one of the most important moments of American History, moment of tragedy and heroism of the highest order into a cheap romance with some whore two timing Josh Harnett and Benniffer. Ugh.
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Between your invoking the famous "Patton" quote and making the dead-on observation that Ed Harris looks like Rommel, let me only say that I officially have nothing to add to this TB. Well done, gentlemen.
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The Desert Fox, whatever your opinion of him as a man, is an historical subject that deserves a dignified, dramatic, and respectful film. So we'll get two hours of tanks blowing up in impossible Death-Star-esque fireballs, a few "quiet moments" with ham-fisted uber-expositional dialogue, and probably Shia LaBoof in a key role. Well, fuck a doodle doo.
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It'll be a good movie if they stick to the book and get a director who can do "realistic" combat scenes rather than Michael Bay hyper-stylized crapola. Pearl Harbor sucked ass. Historically inaccurate (except for the part about Japan attacking us). Oh yeah, Monty was the most overrated general of the war.
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easy tiger!
As much as you may dislike octagonproplex's taste in movies, director's etc chill out on the dude. I may not agree with many people on this site but I try not to expound vitriol on their opinion. Opinions are like arseholes everyone's got one and yup they're entitled to 'em. -
He played Rommel in a '40s movie called Five Graves to Cairo. Entertaining wartime propaganda. Right up there with Bogie's Sahara.
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I'll match my T-34 against your Tiger any day. But no friggin Shermans. And get off Shia's nuts, will ya? You may fire when ready.
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Cause afterall ben affleck won the battle of britain on his own and ww2 started in 1941.
Ben Affleck: "Danny, get me into a god damn jeep with loads of machine guns on it"
Josh Hartnett: "I like saaaaaand" -
Sep 04, 2008 10:22:15 AM CDT
T-34's Ugly barbarian armor for a bunch of ugly barbarians
by picardsucks
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Ok, I wouldn't go as far as the previous poster, the T 34 was one of the outstanding tanks of WWII but... I'd take a Panther over it any day! My 75mm L/70 WILL knock you out before you get in range and I've got the same speed and agility you have. Game, Set and Match. Thank you for playing!
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Watch Patten. And yeah, Pearl Harbor sucked, but I thought the Battle of Britain stuff was the best part. I've never seen a good movie about the Battle of Britain. Why is that? It's the coolest story. Guys with an average of like 5 hours flight experience fighting for their country's very survival against the most experienced pilots on the planet. And winning. I can't believe this isn't a movie.
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Heck of a guy. Only Nazi worth feeling sorry for.
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That should say Patton. But I'm stupid.
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Would have gone further but I'm trying to be diplomatic. But enough of the Euro-Mongolian, Vodka soaked goat herders. I agree on the magnificent Panther!!!!! The archetype for all modern tanks.
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