Candidates For Military Movies

[Slater]

http://members.cox.net/freestuff/DevilsGuard/

 

"The Devils Guard", maybe?

[DB]

Lots of proposals for remakes here.

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Somebody, sometime will suggest they remake "Ice Cold in Alex", but with Coors at the end...

 

David

[Weaver]

http://members.cox.net/freestuff/DevilsGuard/

 

"The Devils Guard", maybe?

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Quite right Slater - my bad.

 

Thanks for the link! My copy was borrowed and I've never seen the book again since. Also, so me folk on another forum were asking after it, so if you don't mind, I'll post the link there too.

 

Cheers again...

[swerve]

Somebody, sometime will suggest they remake "Ice Cold in Alex", but with Coors at the end...

 

David

 

Burn the heretic!

[Old Tanker]

Only if you want one that is highly critical of the British (who weren't there), filled with historical inaccuracies and perhaps tried to claim it was secretly an American victory.

 

I

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Gibson can put on his Auusie hat just as easy as he can put on his American hat.

You're right he won't put on an English hat.

 

A very interesting American to do a bio of would be MG. Robert T. Frederick.

 

He led the Devils Brigade , the Provisional Parachute Division during Anvil and later commanded the 45th ID one of the most successful NG units in WWII.

It seems he was somewhat of a controversial type person who the army tried to keep a leash on but a very successful combat commander and bar room brawler , my kind of general. No nonsense type of guy.

[Gavin Phillips]

Personally, I think a movie about Chechnya might be something worth seeing, but again as is always the case, I doubt people would be interested in seeing it since it isnt one of those hugely publisized wars like Vietnam or Afghanistan etc.

 

But as with the Cold War era in mind, suppose someone made a (fictional) movie about a Soviet ICBM hitting London, I'll bet they would refuse to screen that here!

[Gavin Phillips]

Forgot about another war interest of mine, that is the Russian/Finnish war "Winter War", would be hard to find tanks for that one though!

[Sardaukar]

Forgot about another war interest of mine, that is the Russian/Finnish war "Winter War", would be hard to find tanks for that one though!

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Not too hard . Check:

 

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00...3812595-5842309

 

Cheers,

 

M.S.

[swerve]

Personally, I think a movie about Chechnya might be something worth seeing, but again as is always the case, I doubt people would be interested in seeing it since it isnt one of those hugely publisized wars like Vietnam or Afghanistan etc.

 

At least one has been made.

[ShotMagnet]

...anything about the cold war turning hot would be facinating.

 

A number of the Steel Beasts community and myself have been playing a Fulda Gap campaign. In the course of playing alongside, and working with, some of the Canadians involved with the campaign I learned about and was given the First Clash and Counterstroke books.

 

When the new version of the game hits the public we're going to mount an FC/CS series, including AAR write-ups that are also novel chapters, same as we're doing for Fulda Gap. It's a pretty hefty stretch, but one likes to speculate that maybe one day someone will turn what we've done with FG into a movie. I'd like to see the same thing for FC/CS.

 

Alas, the Cold War's probably been done to death in novel form and the notion of turning anything of that ilk into a movie would be a tough sell, to say the least. Still, if it could be done...

 

 

 

Shot

Edited March 2, 2005 by ShotMagnet

[Guest bojan]

At least one has been made.

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"Blockpost" is the name - I managed to get pirated DivX and it is good. Minor note, there are no English subtitles anywhere - not a problem for me, but that can limit popularity.

[Yish]

The fist battle of Grozny by the crew who did Black Hawk Dawn. In russian, with Russian actors and english subtitles. And there's a sad, negative ending.

Yeah, I know it will never happen.

Edited March 2, 2005 by Yish

[tankkid85]

Team Yankee, actually almost any of the Harold Coyle novels. I especially like The Ten Thousand, I've been reading it again during my boring lecture classes, excellent book.

 

Steve

[Guest bojan]

Unfortunately, some of the most interesting might have little box-office appeal, due to the obscurity (to most possible viewers) of the events. e.g. WW1 from a Serbian point of view. Could be interesting. The winter retreat over the mountains into Albania would present tremendous cinematic opportunities. But I fear too many people would say "What?". ...

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Two years ago someone actualy started filming it here (with French cooperation), but IIRC I have no idea what happened... It certenly wasn't finished.

[Dan Robertson]

Opperation Pedestle:

 

"You have 2 battleships, 3 carries and 50 destroyers and cruisers, just to escort 14 Merchant ships to Malta. If just one ship get to through and you loose half the escort doing it the mission will be considered a sucess"

 

On one convoy the fate of Malta rested, and the entire allied effort on Africa rests on the defence of Malta. In the story of the convoy was dramatic, deadly and occassionally humourous. In the end 7 ships got through but at a huge cost in men.

 

Wittman:

 

Just an exause for a tank combat film starting in Russia and ending in Normandy. Wittman himself isn't actually a brilliant hero for the film, he was comitted Nazi and a rather humourlous person, but I supose that would work from the angle of Nazi superman, belives his own hype, finds out that a 19yearold with a 17pdr can seriously spoil your fun if they get lucky.

 

Visually with current CGI it could be quite a spectular film, I remmeber reading a quote from a Sherman commader involved in Opperation Goodwood.

 

"They say you never see the one that gets you but that isn't true. I saw the Pather Turret line up on me and watched the shell in flight moving towards me in slow motion the corn bending in its wake."

[Slater]

Has a film been made yet about "Operation Jericho"? That's the rather Hollywood-esque operation in which Mosquitoes bombed a Gestapo prison in France to free a number of Resistance fighters who were due to be executed.

 

I think this one requires all-British (or Commonwealth, or whoever the actual aircrews were) for the cast. No Ben Afflecks or Matt Damons.

[capt_starlight]

Mel Gibson ought to do one based on the Aussie Kakoda Trail Campaign .

That was a meat grinder.

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Fortunately not a "yankee" in sight (apart from an uncomprehending “Dugout Doug” and a cast of assorted clowns - they most certainly did not have their act together at that point).

 

Others that spring to mind

 

- RMS Officers in the blitz. Possibly better as a TV series as it is a bit episodic and coz you know some are not going to survive;

- Stories of Noel Chevasse VC and Bar, MC RAMC and Charles Upham VC and Bar NZEF (or TC "Diver" Derrick VC DCM);

- Filming of RC Sherrif’s Journey’s End – that is one play about WWI that I think would go down very well;

- what of a decent show covering Wellington (Napoleon has been done to death almost) or Marlborough ?

- and back to Kokoda - Sid Rowell - commnader of NG Force and his reaction to the pressures from Mac and Blamey while protecting his field commanders Potts and Clowes. Watching his own career go down the tubes as e result (but to be vindicated later, seconded to help plan D-Day and to then become CGS in time for Korea)

- others that come to mind from "down-under" include "Fighting Joe" Gullett and "the Man with the Donkey" John Simpson Kirkpatrick.

 

Frank

Edited March 3, 2005 by capt_starlight

[Ivanhoe]

A movie on Carlos Hathcock's Vietnam service would be excellent if Hollywood could just stick to the facts.

 

I dunno if there is a particular story line that would fit a movie script, but the inland naval battles of the War of 1812 could be visually spectacular.

[Geoff Winnington-Ball]

Having just reread THE LONG ROAD HOME by Fred Cederberg, I will reiterate that this seems a classic story for the screen. Very doable, too, in terms of technology and available resources. Gawd, I'd like to write the screenplay...

 

<edit to add/reiterate as well> Normandy >> Falaise. There can be no more poignant story. Lots of CGI required, very expensive to make, but it would be a magnificent movie if done right.

[KingSargent]

Has a film been made yet about "Operation Jericho"? That's the rather Hollywood-esque operation in which Mosquitoes bombed a Gestapo prison in France to free a number of Resistance fighters who were due to be executed.

 

I think this one requires all-British (or Commonwealth, or whoever the actual aircrews were) for the cast. No Ben Afflecks or Matt Damons.

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But surely you are aware that the RAF was made up of Yanks who came to save Limey butt when said Limeys didn't know how to fly?

[Slater]

Sorry, silly me

[Argus]

Swerve beat me too it but:

 

"Remake Ice Cool in Alex with a Coors..."

 

Burning is too good, especially as the they'd probably use a Duce...grrr

 

Modern Fiction

Team Yankee

 

Obscure Historical

Elands River - we've only had one decent Bore War film, 'bout time for another IMHO.

 

Remake

Zulu - But their going to have to CGI out the wrinkesl in Michel Cains face, because I can't think of anyone else fit to play the role.

 

Biographical

Albert Jacka

 

Naval

HMS Unbroken - Come on you can't beat a good sub film for pure tension

 

PC - Democrat

Any of the US invasions of Canada

 

Revolutionary War

Cromwell?

 

Epic

Bio - hold on GOOD Bio of Napoleon

 

TV Series

Agreed RMS/Bomb disposal - Ian Southall's book would be a good basis

 

Action Adventure

LRDG

 

Alternative Band of Brothers

11th Hussars

 

Naval dash

PT boats in SWPA (Kenedy as cameo only so as not to dominate)

 

Utter Hell

Gallipoli with equal time for ANZAC, Cape Hellas and Suvla <shudder>

 

OH MY GOD

Any of the great WWI battles, Verdun, Somme, Tannenburg, Passendale, Chemin de Dames take your pick.

 

Vietnam

Long Tan, or Coral

 

Cinamatic eyefest

NWF of India - any period, topical too.

 

and so many more

 

shane

[Weaver]

Re Bomb Disposal, there WAS a TV series made years ago called "Danger UXB". The only person I can think of who was in it was Maurice Roeves. It seemed pretty good and unsensationalist to me at the time, but I was only a kid

[Doug Kibbey]

A movie on Carlos Hathcock's Vietnam service would be excellent if Hollywood could just stick to the facts.

 

I dunno if there is a particular story line that would fit a movie script, but the inland naval battles of the War of 1812 could be visually spectacular.

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If we're gonna do the "personal odyssey" thing, I'd nominate the Nick Rowe story...even up to the '88/'89(?) assassination. Larry Thorne would be an interesting bio as well (we get the Finn audience to boot!)....as would Arthur Simons or Robert Rheault.

[Rich]

How about "The Devil Soldier"? Frederick Townsend Ward and the Taiping Rebellion. The biggest civil war in history, started by a Chinese who thought he was Jesus, suppressed by an army created by Ward, a New England adventurer who was only 27 when he started, the army led after Ward's early death by an English religious zealot who many years later was killed by another cuckoo who thought he was the reborn Mohammed - yep, the Mahdi and Gordon of Khartoum!

Edited March 3, 2005 by Rich