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caddymanI see that Peter Jackson is to film a remake of the Dambusters.
Jackson said it would be "as authentic as possible and as close to the spirit of the original as possible".
Well, it will be interesting to see how he does it. Let's hope that a) 617 Squadron is still an RAF unit, b) that Barnes Wallis is British and that Wing Commander Guy Gibson doesn't suffer a nationality change. Of equal interest will be whether or not Gibson's pet dog is renamed. It would be fair enough of them not to refer to it by name in the film, except that as it was run down and killed just before the mission, the dog's name became the call-sign for the successful destruction of the dams...
It seems that at one point Mel Gibson had the rights to the story and was set to remake the movie. I think we can guess how that would have turned out, can't we?
Thank God for small mercies.
Jackson said it would be "as authentic as possible and as close to the spirit of the original as possible".
Well, it will be interesting to see how he does it. Let's hope that a) 617 Squadron is still an RAF unit, b) that Barnes Wallis is British and that Wing Commander Guy Gibson doesn't suffer a nationality change. Of equal interest will be whether or not Gibson's pet dog is renamed. It would be fair enough of them not to refer to it by name in the film, except that as it was run down and killed just before the mission, the dog's name became the call-sign for the successful destruction of the dams...
It seems that at one point Mel Gibson had the rights to the story and was set to remake the movie. I think we can guess how that would have turned out, can't we?
Thank God for small mercies.