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Post by Dave Homewood on Dec 15, 2008 10:21:43 GMT 12
Yesterday afternoon I was listening to At the Movies with Simon Morris on Radio New Zealand National's Arts On Sunday programme.
Simon Morris was talking about the Weta Workshops/Wingnut Films projects and about how a lot that had been promised still had not happened. He made a statement that went pretty much along these lines, "Tintin has foundered due to US backers' apathy, along with the Dambusters and Halo."
I have heard announcements made publicly before that the Halo and Tintin film productions were canned, but this is the first I've heard any negative news about the Dambusters project.
Has it been canned? I seriously hope that Morris is wrong.
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Post by baz62 on Dec 15, 2008 14:42:41 GMT 12
A friendof mine has seen firsthand the full size Lancaster "models" so if they have canned it it would be a damn shame as he said they looked like the real thing! Lets hope the economic crisis hasn't scuttled The Dambusters at least!
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Post by contourcreative on Dec 31, 2008 9:05:13 GMT 12
My understanding is that the project is 'on hold'...
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jan 2, 2009 16:06:04 GMT 12
Well, perhaps a positive sign is Stephen Fry is in Wellington at the moment, though he's working on another project: www.stuff.co.nz/4807148a11.htmlStephen Fry in Wellington for the birds By BEN FAWKES - The Dominion Post | Thursday, 01 January 2009 DOCO STAR: British comedian Stephen Fry communes with a rare hihi at Karori Sanctuary in Wellington. One of Karori Sanctuary's newest arrivals received an extra-special welcome to its new home, from British writer and comedian Stephen Fry. Fry, whose current projects include writing the script to Peter Jackson's Dambusters film, is in New Zealand with British zoologist Mark Carwardine. Their trip is part of a BBC documentary series looking at the progress of some of the world's most endangered species. Included in the list is the kakapo, New Zealand's native nocturnal parrot. Fry and Mr Carwardine will visit the kakapo on Codfish Island near Stewart Island this week. Entitled Last Chance to See, the series revisits the book by the same name written by Mr Cawardine and Douglas Adams, a friend of Fry's who died in 2001. The pair have already visited Madagascar, central Africa and the Amazon, looking at the progress of endangered species which featured in the original book. They will carry on to Indonesia and Mexico after their fleeting visit to New Zealand. Fry is enthusiastic about New Zealand's effort to save the kakapo. "There were only 19 left [when the book was written], now there is something like 90." The pair were at Wellington's Karori Sanctuary yesterday to film tuatara and kaka. "We wanted to get a real snapshot of New Zealand wildlife before we got to Codfish." Fry says New Zealand possesses a unique environment which has shown the impact of human settlement. "It's interesting to see how the introduction of humans almost destroyed so many vulnerable species." Their visit coincided with the release into the sanctuary of five hihi, or stitchbirds, raised at Mt Bruce in the Wairarapa, which captured the attention of both Fry and Mr Carwardine. There are fewer than 1000 hihi in the wild, with the 33 sanctuary residents the only settlement of the bird on mainland New Zealand. "It's got a beautiful bill, good for poking down flowers," Fry says. "It looks like a hummingbird." |
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Post by planeimages on Feb 9, 2009 18:59:27 GMT 12
Trivia 1. Richard Todd, who plays Guy Penrose Gibson, took part in the airborne assault on Pegasus Bridge on D-Day. 2. The film's theme tune, The Dam Busters' March, by Eric Coates became an instant classic for brass band and can still be heard in football grounds during England Football Team matches. One version released featured dialogue extracts from the movie (the bombing run). 3. There were two television advertisements for a brand of beer, Carling Black Label, which played on the theme of The Dam Busters. Both adverts were made before the English football team broke a 35 year losing streak against Germany. The first showed a German guard on top of a dam catching a bouncing bomb as if he were a goalkeeper. The second showed a British tourist throwing a Union Jack towel like a bouncing bomb to reserve a pool side seat before the German tourists could reserve them with their towels. Both actions were followed by the comment "I bet he drinks Carling Black Label"[1] The second ad appears to have been exorcised from the internet. It was a beauty and has been held up as a classic use of metaphors in advertising. The Poms will never let the world forget how they won WWII. John Cleese helps them in their campaign. www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/The-Dam-Busters-(movie)It could be fun like this: or Americanised like this: The attack on the "Death Star" in the climax of the film Star Wars is similar in many respects to the strategy of Operation Chastise — Rebel pilots have to fly through a trench while evading enemy fire and drop a single special weapon at a precise distance from the target in order to destroy the entire base with a single explosion; if one run fails another run must be made by a different pilot. Some scenes from the Star Wars climax are very similar to those in the The Dam Busters and some of the dialogue is nearly identical in the two films. For the missile defense program, see Strategic Defense Initiative. ... The Pink Floyd film The Wall, and therefore the soundtrack album, contains scenes from the film, notably when Gibson's dog called 'Nigger' is killed by a car, just before the planes take off. A reunited Pink Floyd at the London Live 8 concert on July 2, 2005. ... The word nigger is an extremely controversial term used in many English-speaking countries, including the United States, Canada, Britain, and Australia to refer to individuals with dark skin, especially those of African descent who previously were racially classified by the now outdated term Negro. ... www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/The-Dam-Busters-(movie) |
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Post by shorty on Feb 9, 2009 21:55:53 GMT 12
Trivia The attack on the "Death Star" in the climax of the film Star Wars is similar in many respects to the strategy of Operation Chastise — Rebel pilots have to fly through a trench while evading enemy fire and drop a single special weapon at a precise distance from the target in order to destroy the entire base with a single explosion; if one run fails another run must be made by a different pilot. Some scenes from the Star Wars climax are very similar to those in the The Dam Busters and some of the dialogue is nearly identical in the two films. For the missile defense program, see Strategic Defense Initiative. ... The Death Star scene from Star Wars was, according to George Lucas, inspired by the scene from the film "Bridges at Toko-Ri" where William Holden leads a flight of F9F Panthers attacking a bridge at the base of a gorge in Korea. I'v viewed the two scenes one after the other and would tend to agree with that (although Holden does get shot down) |
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Post by Dave Homewood on Feb 9, 2009 22:35:10 GMT 12
Lucas drew a lot from the Dam Busters for that Star Wars scene and actually used clips from the war film to make a rough drft to convince his backers of what the scene was about apparently.
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Post by obiwan27 on May 5, 2009 7:29:28 GMT 12
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Post by mumbles on May 5, 2009 20:03:43 GMT 12
Trivia The attack on the "Death Star" in the climax of the film Star Wars is similar in many respects to the strategy of Operation Chastise — Rebel pilots have to fly through a trench while evading enemy fire and drop a single special weapon at a precise distance from the target in order to destroy the entire base with a single explosion; if one run fails another run must be made by a different pilot. Some scenes from the Star Wars climax are very similar to those in the The Dam Busters and some of the dialogue is nearly identical in the two films. For the missile defense program, see Strategic Defense Initiative. ... The Death Star scene from Star Wars was, according to George Lucas, inspired by the scene from the film "Bridges at Toko-Ri" where William Holden leads a flight of F9F Panthers attacking a bridge at the base of a gorge in Korea. I'v viewed the two scenes one after the other and would tend to agree with that (although Holden does get shot down) For comparison, and / or laughs....   |
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Post by oldjoe on Jun 28, 2009 11:58:50 GMT 12
With regards to the Death Star scene. There are lines of dialogue in the film which have great similarity to the climactic scene in The Dambusters film. In Star Wars one character asks another "How many guns can you see Red 5?" the response is "I can see about 20 guns, some on the surface, some on the towers. In the dambusters film, the words are almost identical. The only difference is the call signs and in the dambuster the word 'fields' is used instead of 'surface'. Now that I've got that of my chest I can rest easy  |
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Post by flyinkiwi on Aug 4, 2009 10:23:03 GMT 12
www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/film/2716391/Jackson-trials-3D-technology-for-Dam-BustersWellington film director Peter Jackson is shooting experimental three-dimensional (3D) aerial footage in New Zealand as part of testing whether the technology could be used for his re-make of the Dam Busters. The Lord Of The Rings director told The Daily Telegraph he wants to use new technology to make bombs leap out at the audience in his re-imagining of the 1954 classic war film. Jackson said: "I think a World War 2 bombing raid in 3D would be neat." The Lord of the Rings moviemaker has done test shots in New Zealand of a Lancaster bomber and has ordered the construction of 10 replicas for a film costing over $60 million. The newspaper said that if the three-dimensional footage was successful, there was a possibility for the whole movie to be filmed in 3D, portraying British bombers raiding German dams. Jackson has said he wants his film to be "as authentic as possible and as close to the spirit of the original as possible". The original film, now a cult classic, starred Richard Todd as Wing Commander Guy Gibson. Jackson's Weta Digital has been involved in American director James Cameron's 3D movie Avatar, a $US300m science fiction film to be released in December. American distributors are already upgrading projection systems for 3D, and 10 British cinemas a week are switching to the necessary digital projection systems. In New Zealand, SkyCity Cinemas general manager Jane Hastings has predicted 3D movies will eventually become the only way to view animated movies.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Aug 4, 2009 11:31:26 GMT 12
I hope it is better than the 3-d on the recent remake of Journey to the Centre of the Earth. On DVD we tried to watch it and by ten minutes in my whole faily was feeling sick. Plus the 3-d didn't work and it just blurred the pictures. It was better without the glasses. Luckily is was also on the DVD in standard flat film so we switched to that after ten minutes. But what a waste of money on technology that is unwatchable. I'm sure Peter Jackson's company will make a much better effort. The 3-D film that used to be at the Auckland Imax berfore it closed down was superb, incredible in fact. But I'm not a fan of watching films through coloured glasses. I would rather see the Dambusters in proper colour.
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Post by flyjoe180 on Aug 5, 2009 20:10:09 GMT 12
I agree, in proper colour. I wear glasses as it is, another set on top would be just plain inconvenient ;D
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Post by Ykato on May 21, 2013 14:19:03 GMT 12
Peter Jackson's Dam Busters on hold Fri, 17 May 2013 Movie buffs will have to hold out for Sir Peter Jackson's remake of The Dam Busters, with the film "still waiting in the wings". Friday marks the 70th anniversary of the World War II Dambusters Raid, with a flypast over the dam on Derwent Reservoir in Derbyshire celebrating the occasion. But the highly anticipated remake of the 1955 film The Dam Busters, which depicts the dangerous and deadly bouncing bomb attacks on German dam walls, is on hold for the time being with its creator busy with The Hobbit trilogy Full Item Here: www.3news.co.nz/Peter-Jacksons-Dam-Busters-on-hold/tabid/418/articleID/298160/Default.aspx |
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Post by Ykato on May 21, 2013 17:05:23 GMT 12
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Post by flyjoe180 on May 22, 2013 16:11:44 GMT 12
Put the Hobbits on hold I say.
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Post by Ykato on May 24, 2013 0:46:54 GMT 12
Put the Hobbits on hold I say.  I reckon. |
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Post by pjw4118 on May 24, 2013 11:08:38 GMT 12
Weta are curently finishing a memorial trophy for the NZBCA to be presented to the RNZAF later this year. During our visits , the workshop boys say the model visuals were finished a year or more ago at a cost of a few million. A couple of Lanc engine nacelles hang in their warehouse while theres a nose section at TVAL built from original bits. All the rest of the hardware is in 40ft containers at Trentham. I agree its a shame that the new film couldnt have come out this year especially with so much BC news happening and with the new clasp and the Arctic Star which a few BC boys also qualify for.
By the way there is the BC annual parade and service at the Auckland War Memorial 1030 June 2. All welcome
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Post by baronbeeza on May 29, 2013 23:16:40 GMT 12
dambustersblog.com/2013/05/29/fry-finishes-dambusters-script/A ‘reliable source’ (as they are known in the trade) has told us that Stephen Fry has now finished the script for the remake of The Dambusters, and it is now in the hands of Peter Jackson’s Wingnut Films. It is not yet clear what will happen next, as the New Zealand-based outfit is still hard at work on the post-production for Hobbit Numbers 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and so on, and so on. (How many more of these little blighters are there?)
Casting the film should be the next step. If we hear of agencies getting calls looking for 133 young men with a mixture of accents then we will let you know.
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Post by Ykato on Jun 3, 2013 9:58:10 GMT 12
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I reckon.
