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Takeoff looms for Dambusters Movie Remake.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/film/2383809/Takeoff-looms-for-Dambusters
And it might be useful to remember that one Albert Speer, Hitler's Minister of Armaments at the time, in his book Inside the Third Reich said that when the Dams were attacked he thought the war would be over in a matter of weeks if the Allied attacks continued until all of Germany's dams were gone. Speer could not understand why a country that possessed the weapons and skill to destroy Germany's main sources of power would demonstrate the ability to perform this task a couple of times and then quit.
Best of luck
http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/film/2383809/Takeoff-looms-for-Dambusters
Director Peter Jackson has unveiled the first glimpses of his Dambusters movie.
Jackson, the King Kong of New Zealand's film industry, visited Hood Aerodrome in Masterton yesterday to oversee a mockup of a World War II airfield, complete with a full-scale replica of a Lancaster bomber.
It took a large crew a week to put together the replica, which is one of 10 designed by Weta Workshop and built in China out of fibreglass and steel.
Sandbags, guns, tanks and hired extras in war uniform all helped to set the scene.
Although the Jackson-produced NZ$52-million movie about 617 Squadron's famous dam assault was announced to the world in 2006, little has been said until now about its progress other than confirmation that British writer and comedian Stephen Fry would write the script.
The film is being directed by Kiwi first-time director Christian Rivers.
It has also emerged that Fry was asked to come up with alternative names for squadron leader Guy Gibson's dog, Nigger, but that executive producer Sir David Frost rejected them all.
"Guy sometimes used to call his dog 'Nigsy', so I think that's what we will call it," Sir David told the Daily Mail newspaper. "Stephen has been coming up with other names, but this is the one I want."
Jackson, the King Kong of New Zealand's film industry, visited Hood Aerodrome in Masterton yesterday to oversee a mockup of a World War II airfield, complete with a full-scale replica of a Lancaster bomber.
It took a large crew a week to put together the replica, which is one of 10 designed by Weta Workshop and built in China out of fibreglass and steel.
Sandbags, guns, tanks and hired extras in war uniform all helped to set the scene.
Although the Jackson-produced NZ$52-million movie about 617 Squadron's famous dam assault was announced to the world in 2006, little has been said until now about its progress other than confirmation that British writer and comedian Stephen Fry would write the script.
The film is being directed by Kiwi first-time director Christian Rivers.
It has also emerged that Fry was asked to come up with alternative names for squadron leader Guy Gibson's dog, Nigger, but that executive producer Sir David Frost rejected them all.
"Guy sometimes used to call his dog 'Nigsy', so I think that's what we will call it," Sir David told the Daily Mail newspaper. "Stephen has been coming up with other names, but this is the one I want."
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And it might be useful to remember that one Albert Speer, Hitler's Minister of Armaments at the time, in his book Inside the Third Reich said that when the Dams were attacked he thought the war would be over in a matter of weeks if the Allied attacks continued until all of Germany's dams were gone. Speer could not understand why a country that possessed the weapons and skill to destroy Germany's main sources of power would demonstrate the ability to perform this task a couple of times and then quit.
Best of luck
