Aviation News-'Dambusters' remake will go ahead next year.

[wonwinglo]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/5301998.stm

Great news today as 'Lord of the Rings' Peter Jackson has been selected to do the remake for the classic 'Dambusters' movie,this is due to start filming next year,just what will they use for Lancasters as there are only two flying worldwide ? no doubt the large model brigade will be in big demand for the new film.

Long overdue as a remake and this time the true shape of the bouncing bomb will be known,when the original film was made everything was still on the secret list,now the new directors will have full resources to hand on Dr Barns Wallis and his remarkable invention.

And they had better call that dog 'Nigger' as well, otherwise there will be an uproar from purists,threats to call Guy Gibsons pet dog anything but will be met with disgust by historians fighting to keep the facts as accurate as possible,political correctness aside,we must stop them from re-writing the history books to their whim and fancy.

[Guest]

if done tastefully this looks like it will be a stunning film,

though mya never quite capture the essence that the original puts accross.

will wait and see with fingers crossed

[Guest]

I'm not too sure what Hollywood's attraction is with making remakes of films all the time thesedays.

Now that visual effects are so good though we should start seeing a few warfilms with the decent effects they always deserved. There have been some real horrors though in recent years - thinks of Memphis Belle and Pearl Harbor...

:gun2:lane:

[Guest]

As this is an american film of a british historical event, im wondering which american squadron flew the dambusters raid.

Im sure they used " B28 liberators" for the original mission and a cruise missile. No only joking, im sure Peter Jackson has done his homework

[Guest]

One thing which bugs me in modern cinema and computer effects...

Say for example the film titanic...the effects in that were pretty groundbreaking for the time - truly big budget stuff...

One area I though was pretty hopeless - some of the camera angles could not have been achieved purely by any other means other than computer effects...I.E looking down at the stern of the ship as it up ended. This fascination with making dynamic looking interesting shots in my mind just makes thing appear fake. If you were actually looking at the image as if in a lifeboat or on a boat alongside - you would be made to believe - hey they must have rebuilt the real ship and sunk it....rather than think...oh dont worry they aren't really drowning...those are just little computer graphics...

A great example of how computer effects were brought back into reality was in Peter Jacksons Lord of the rings...for example the director used motion capture to create a realistic movement of a virtual camera that tracked the computer generated action.

When the computer stuff was seen through the eye of this virtual camera it became instantly believable as the interactions were not premedetated and had an authentic shake and response to the surroundings.

If we can avoid "cool looking /unreal looking camera shots" and odd looking tracking cameras that just follow the action around so it looks like a plane on the end of a stick we can make for some really believable effects.

In that film the aviator - the crash scene was so polished looking it looked unbelievable for example.

[wonwinglo]

As long as there are Avro Lancasters ( probably large scale models as we only have the two real ones flying,and I cannot see them letting the film company loose with those !) and Guy Gibsons dog is called by his real name 'Nigger' and the bombs are now historically accurate,as opposed to the original film,where because they were still on the secret list they had to guess the shape,then things should be ok.

With proper accents,subtle filming then it should be something to really look forward to.

You dont know how near the truth you are Charlie when you mention B-24's as one company years ago wanted to make a film using B-17's as the dambusting machines !!

[Guest]

The original film is great right up until the actual dambusting part though...It always looked like the actual bouncing bombs were targetting someone's fish tank or something...there's no hiding the fact that they were some very small models being bombed with the scale of the water splashing around.

Keep it as close to the original as you can but with some half believable effects.

I think if you can't tell if it's real, computer graphics or large scale models that you are looking at then the film has done it's job in the special FX's department.

[Guest]

I liked Pearl Harbour, and Titanic.

[Guest]

Latest new's release on "The Dam Busters"

Filming for Peter Jackson's Dambusters will start within weeks, with a full-scale replica bomber, bouncing bomb and miniature dam already complete, the director has revealed.

Jackson is working on a remake of classic film The Dam Busters, based on one of World War II's most daring feats, in which Royal Air Force bombers destroyed German dams using bouncing bombs.

Most of the $76 million film will be shot in Wellington and Jackson said that for the past few months workers at Weta Workshops in Miramar had been building a full-sized replica of a Lancaster bomber used in the raids.

"We've got the Lancaster made now, we've got a bomb made, we've got the first of the miniature dams made and we're just working on the second dam," he told website Ain't It Cool News.

The plane would be used to make moulds to produce about 10 more Lancaster replicas for the film.

Weta staff had been working on the project for months, though Jackson secured the rights only a few weeks ago,

"It all worked out well and we're probably going to actually start shooting some of the miniatures for Dambusters in the next few weeks."

This meant that some shooting of scenes would start even though there was still no script or cast.

"It's an interesting way of making a film."

The latest computer-generated imagery would also be put to use, to give audiences a full-blooded view of the mission, in which the bombers skimmed above treetops to stay below German radar before striking the dams.

"We have not really seen a World War II low-level bombing attack that has been done with all the power of (computer graphics) that really make you feel like you're really participating in that raid."

The film was unlikely to feature a host of big-name actors because several of the key pilots were only 20 years old when they led the attacks, Jackson said.

"There are not many stars who are 20 years old. They just don't really exist, so I would imagine we'll be looking for unknown young actors."

[wonwinglo]

Wow,full scale Lancaster replicas ! and ten in total,I bet that after the filming is completed they will be in demand with the air museums ? lets wish them good luck for a realistic film.