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Stephen Fry to write DAMBUSTERS remake for Peter Jackson?
Hey folks, Harry here and I'm wondering... is Peter Jackson going to direct the remake of DAMBUSTERS, as I thought he was only going to be producing it. He definitely has the mad passion to do it, having made new Lancaster Bombers for the film. Which is just kinda amazing. But the great news is that Stephen Fry is writing the screenplay, how cool is that?
Harry,
Last night I attended a charity event with Stephen Fry, in which he was interviewed on stage about his life, friends (such as Hugh Laurie – when he Stephen was recently in LA shooting bones, he was in the lot opposite the House lot, and they had lunch together for a catch up) and ongoing/future projects. One of the more interesting movie tip-bits that he let slip was that he confirmed that the Peter Jackson DamBusters remake was in pre-production, with Stephen writing the screen play. He also commented that Peter had already created the Lancaster Bombers in New Zealand ready for shooting to begin. No dates were mentioned.
Regards
Jaffa
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This has just came on my radar!!
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Stephen Fry is indeed God, but hasn't this been news for a while now..?
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I work at the Australian War Memorial, and PJ produced a short film, "Over the Front", for our WW1 aircraft gallery. Maximum awesomeness, the man can shoot aerial action like a mofo! We also have one of a few remaining original lancs left, and to see it in action would be sublime. and with SF writing his script, i reeeeally think the film will be hot dog!!
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...with an iron fist :-) when we're all living in our little pods with our food and waste being sent to and from us in little tubes his will be the face of 'the ruler' broadcasting the hypnotic messages to us via brain-feed :-) anyway, i jest, probably. i despise remakes and all they stand for, i just read a post on the monster squad TB where someone said they would rather have a late sequel than a remake, and i couldn't agree more, but i spose if someone held a gun to my head and said this stone-cold classic has to be remade, then these two guys wouldn't be the worst choices. although i'm a little surprised at stephen, i would've thought his viewpoint on (recent)british history would've been more reverential than to be involved in a remake.
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Shit, seriously, this might be the oldest "news" AICN has come up with in all the years I've been coming here. BTW Harry, I've heard they're making a movie of Robert E. Howard's Conan with that guy from Pumping Iron!! Give me credit if it's your next big headline!
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But I like it!
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Nigsy
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http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/134649/Dam-Busters-take-off-
if anyone can get hold of the paper they actually had more pictures of the planes built for the film. -
This has been known about for upwards of two years...
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...what're they going to call the dog?
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Goes from the racially uncomfortable "Nigger" to the family friendly "Cunt". True Story.
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Am sure he has podcasted this about this a year and a half ago. Also, he is spreading himself thin and the content is suffering. Some of the podcasts are repetitive crap and I don't want to hear about Apple or newly-endorsed mobile phones any more. Nor do I want to hear him selling me insurance every time I turn on the TV. It's getting a bit whorish.
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What movies has he written that are any good? I guess we can expect a nice steamy scene with a couple of gay pilots getting it on in the cockpit! Would be better if PJ was writing it himself.
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or its about something else?
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Peter Jackson had an imagination? All he is currently capable of is adapting books and doing remakes. I have seriously gone off the guy.
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Which i'm sure he will confirm for us shortly.
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Well, the goodness of a movie is not only based on the originality of its story but on the ability of the director to make is own take out of it. But I know what you mean.
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at least it should sound British.
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If a story is good enough it should be retold again and again,specially when its one of the best true WW2 stories.Fry has been involved for at least 3 years.
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We posted this years ago on TORN.
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To be directed by WETA's Christian Rivers, and was announced he would helm this back when King Kong was still being filmed (or even LOTR)...
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He'll do a great job with this script..maybe i will help him if he wants me too
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Holy shit, this awesome GROUNDBREAKING news was news about 3 YEARS AGO. Fucking...hell.
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But it's ok because it was back before racism was bad.
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Really love this site but have to join the hoardes of dissenters declaring this very old news indeed. In recent BBC doc 'Last Chance to See' (Stephen Fry and naturalist chum repeat journey of Douglas Adams and same naturalist 20 years ago to find some of the worlds most endangered animals) Stephen was seen in front of an enormous WW2 bomber in the Weta workshop talking about Wetas, the enormous insects from which PJ took the name. Aintitcool being scooped by a nature documentary? For shame. Still, good news tho.
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The dog was black! what else could you call it?
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he's really funny. but he's also very opinionated, aloof and has a massive superiority complex. i have no desire to see Dambusters retold via iambic pentameter and fancy, obscure words. and i also don't need to see a blatant homoerotic subtext in the cockpit of the bomber.
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And keep the Dog's name Nigger.
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Oct 19, 2009 7:57:15 AM CDT
I Am Thrilled Stephen Fry Will Be Writing Dambusters Screenplay
by shadowcat_664
I read that Peter Jackson was planning to do a remake of the old Dambusters movie on the OneRing.net website last year. However, I had no idea that Stephen Fry will be writing the screenplay. Stephen Fry is such a fantastic writer. I have heard good reviews about Last Chance to see and will probably order it from the BBC America Shop.
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I heard this more than a year and a half ago. Peter Jackson mentioned it during an interview. Not exactly hot off the press.
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It was called THE DAM BUSTERS and it was a very good film.
Why waste resources remaking it?
Why not take 633 SQUADRON and do a 'remastering' of the flight sequences to bring the effects up to date - otherwise leaving the story untouched. Now that would be a good use of time and money.
I mean, what's next? A remake of THE GREAT ESCAPE? -
...publicly disemboweled while alive, hanged, drawn and quartered, and finally burned and his ashes Fed-Exed to the four corners of America to be mixed into soup kitchen stew and eventually shat upon the sidewalks of the major cities of America right? All for committing the most grevious sin possible in our culture...embarrassing OPRAH?And now he's writing DAM BUSTERS?
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I imagine the movie now. Planes flying every which way and in the center in the fields naked are Peter Jackson and George Lucas taking turns giving it to each other real good. Planes exploding, cum shooting off. The sun goes down. The planes all lay on the ground destroyed. George and Peter are naked stroking each others nether regions smoking a cuban.
Peter: "George?"
George: "Yes my love"
Peter: "When are we gonna do it in the planes up above. You know, up there."
George: "In time my love. In time"
Peter lets out a fart. George lays one out as well. Both pass the cuban and wait for the sun to rise again. -
I hope that Fry focuses on Barnes Wallace, engineer supremo, who invented the bouncy bomb, and his romance with his cousin Molly and his alter ego Duke Delta X. Now there's a fish that Fry can, er, fry.
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Nigger dog runs up behind them and barks.
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Really whats the big deal. It's ok for some snowflakes and yet not ok for others. Get over it.
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His "Bones" character would fit in fine with the current season plot line.
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Stephen Fry has already finished at least a first draft. That news came out last spring. And Christian Rivers is directing this. All Peter is doing is producing. This movie has been in the pipeline for at least 3 years. And the recreation of the Lancaster bombers is being done by WETA. I believe a prototype has actually been flown.
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didn't actually work.
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http://blogs.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/ianwylie/2008/01/stephen_fry_dambusters.html
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Is one of the great wits of our time. Have you ever heard of Noel Coward? You know, the guy who codirected with David Lean a little movie called "In Which We Serve", a gritty film about WW2 made during WW2. And Noel Coward was gay. So fucking what? This homophobia is some of the most childish bullshit. Seriously! "Oh, he's gay, so it'll be really gay." So fucking pathetic.
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Did you guys get this on email? Or papyrus?
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I read about this two years ago.
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fo sho
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and going on about gays all the time. yeah you suck dick, we get it steve.
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That's James Frey.
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You totally ripped off my headline. "Papyrus" was lol though, good one sir.
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In one of Frys programmes on bbc 2 a couple of weeks ago he visited NZ. Part of the show he was talking about "Weta" (the animal), and proceeded to visit Jackson to briefly talk about them. What was interresting though was that they were in a hanger with 2 or 3 lancaster bombers behind them. I was surprised that noone else around here had picked up on the fact, but thought it was a cool nod, hidden away in what was a wildlife show.
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The bombs and tactics did work on two the Mohne and the Eder Dams which were breached as planed. The attacks on the Sorpe and Ennepe not so much. The Sorpe was unlike to other dams (earth instead of concrete) and the Ennepe was obscured by fog. It can be augured that the tactical and strategic value were minimal. But like the American Doolittle raid on Tokyo it had a significant impact on public and Allied perception. It also lead to the development of the earthquake bomb type weapons such as Tallboy and Grand Slam which were used in the latter stages of WWII. Not to mention current versions of 'block busters'.
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they began to percieve that the bouncing bomb was effective somewhere other than on a lake in Yorkshire, despite the fact that Barnes' creation categorically did not do what it said on the tin. except for bouncing, it did do that. no denying that the dambuster was an over-rated piece of propaganda.
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...but that's not as much fun, is it?
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Oct 19, 2009 12:25:14 PM CDT
Never saw the original but i heard it still holps up pretty well
by asimovlives
Well, except for the dog called Nigger.
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Actually, The Dam Busters was set in WWII. Based on a real event, even.
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Rapper version of The Dam Busters, titled "The Damn Busta, Yo"!!
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Yo dawg, nigga motherfucka!!
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He showed his cellphone aplication with could detect an available gay nearby. Presenter Jeremy Clarkson even offered to give him a lift if Fry could find one.
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And then the bombing scenes would take so long, one would wish the nazis would shoot down the heroes and be done with it.
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Two dams breached, 2000+ dead. About 40% of the air crews killed. High cost for "over-rated" propaganda. It like the Doolittle Raid may have been more effective as propaganda than a tactical victory. But in wartime propaganda can be as potent a weapon as a bomb.
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that Jackson was going to make? and doesn't Jackson write the movies' he directs along with Fran Walsh and that Boyens lady?
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DAM BUSTERS! Damn, I'm bored at work today...
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Sorry dude, I didn't see yours. You get props for being first with it, and I'll eat crow for unintentionally copying.
But you know how it is, when you see the staff here make a fuckup... you just jump to the bottom of the page to log in and rant/laugh. -
That's what i call Casablanca.
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I'd love for Dambusters to actually get made. But dam, this was supposed to come out years ago. Now they're just getting to the screenplay. And dam, I thought I was slacking on my WWII themed screenplay. Dam it Peter, get this train, er plane moving. We've been waiting at the station so long the passengers are all a bunch of dam stinking corpses.
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To show off more modern computer generated SFX? Sounds quite a lame reason for a remake. AICN has been notorious for hating remakes of that kind for that type of reasons... unless it's Jar Jar Abrams directing, of course.
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Oct 19, 2009 3:43:55 PM CDT
Peter Jackson is a racist loser...trust me, I know this as a fac
by havehope
I just know.
Dambusters and all that british olden days crap can kiss my ARRRRRSE!
Avatar. 2009 -
Thus, all the Lancasters will be B52s and the RAF will be replaced by a plucky band of USAF boys, complete with the grizzled team leader, the token black guy, the young rookie farmboy and the plucky English nurse love interest (that's you, Keirs.)An hour and a half of CGI nonsense later, Harvey Keitel captures the Enigma machine and saves the day. Or something. Cue credits. God bless America. Mom's apple pie for all...Wonder what they'll call the dog in this version?
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For Kiwi, Peter Jackon is very american, according to you.Maybe they will call the dog "Dawg". A Dawg Called Nigga.
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You're the boss now, Dawg!
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Why oh why does it have to be bent shot fry?Is there noboby heterosexual that can write scripts? does it ALWAYS have to be a queer?Cant
we have a guy that understands war,and isnt a homo?why is it ALWAYS fry or russell t davies?can NOBODY else write?Newsflash Russ-we aint all gay!We dont hate gays-but could you please stop hammering us over the head with gay issues?Thats all we ask.......Give us a feckin break man....... -
No, i'm not. I think Casablanca is a great movie. I just don't like it much. And it is a propaganda movie. Only much better writen, directed and acted then most.
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dont know how to say this,but i think im in love with Jackie.shes wonderful.yeh,this aint the place,i know.......but god,im seriously fucked up.just shows you-it happens!!!!
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Yeah propaganda..but can you really make a war movie that isn't in some way. The best you can hope for is to be evenhanded and that is tough. Eastwood tried with the 2 movies(Flags and Letters)
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I knew about this two bloody years ago!! And on Stephen Fry's great documentary series 'Last Chance To See..' two weeks ago he was in New Zealand talking to Peter Jackson about the Weta bug while stood next to two full scale mock ups of Lancaster's and had the good grace to NOT mention the fact he had written the screenplay. I remember an interview with Fry last year when he mentioned that that they were wrestling with what to do about the fact that Guy Gibsons dog was called the N word and should their quest for historical accuracy include that.
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Do you want know what the greatest sound in the world is? Even you jaded Yanks are going to love this. I was at school about 25 years ago one day, in a history lesson as it happens about the Babylonians. It was a hot summer day, near the end of the school year. And the window was open on the second floor window of classroom L23 to let in a bit of a breeze. At this point your all asking yourself 'How the fuck is he remembering THIS much detail!!' The reason will be very clear shortly. Mr. Hammond was droning as usual and with the heat, boredom was rife in the class. When I became aware of a low bass line hum. The rest of the class was also becoming aware of it. It was getting louder and it was coming from outside. I looked out the window and went into geekasm pointing at three steadily approaching dots in the sky. At this point myself, the rest of the class and even Mr. Hammond completely lost our shit as 2 Lancaster Bombers, a Spitfire and a Hurricane thundered overhead at less than 500 feet over our school, on their way to a local air show. Trust me, there is NOTHING on this Earth that sounds as awesome as TEN Rolls-Royce Merlin Engines tearing the very air a new one as they fly overhead. It was the sound of mechanical PERFECTION. And thats the reason I will remember that day in such detail for the rest of my life.
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That is how jaded Yanks tell the same story.
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If you mean that you work at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra, which I'm pretty sure is what you mean, then that Lancaster sitting on display for you to gaze at whenever you want is in fact 'G for George'- The very Lancaster that, y'know... LED the Dambuster run. Permission to grin granted.
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My dad actually saw the Hindenburg fly over his elementary schoolhouse when he was eight. Three times the length of an A380 (largest flying anything, ever), and the damned thing only crawled across the sky at highway speeds. It was low enough to hear its four Benz engines rumbling and see the big nasty swastikas on the tail. And no, it wasn't on its last flight...it made a number of successful transatlantic crossing from '36 to '37.
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...one summer back in the early 90s. He was doing mock strafing runs at a beach full of people. Incredible, awesome, terrifying sound.
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Have I gone back in time? Shit, I need to warn everyone about... Uh... Glenn Beck.
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will Pink be watching the remake on tv?
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Oct 20, 2009 11:25:07 AM CDT
Bums away!!! Obsolete machines... Always worth a ticket.
by limpdicksherlock
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It's about a volcano, also stars Linda Hamilton from the two Terminator films. I read it in Empire.
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Interesting...the P51 was powered by the American version of the Royce Merlin. Imagine ten of those and you understand what Gabba-UK is raving about.
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