I want him to make The Hobbit first!!!

 

Just let him finish HALO :> im sure its going to be the first video game based movie that will be sucessful.

 

There are just some movies that should not be remade. Jackson will do a fine job; but the impact of the movie can only be deluted.


As a trivial sidebar; The Dam Busters was the source of the some of the dialog used in Star Wars Episode IV during the attack on the death star. (At the time the space to space battle scenes were the ABSOLUTE finest aviation battle scenes EVER produced. I saw the film with the majority of the student aircrews and instructors from VMFAT-101 (F4 Phatom training squadron at MCAS Yuma) who showed up for the movie illegally dressed in full flight gear.

 

As a side-note, Richard Todd, the British actor shown in the movie advertisement above, is a real-life war hero. He was a Captain in the British 7th Parachute Battalion, and jumped in to Normandy early on D-Day to re-inforce Pegasus Bridge which had been captured by British glider troops of D Company, the 2nd Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry (the 'Ox and Bucks').

He later played a role in Darryl Zanuck's "The Longest Day", playing Major John Howard, the Ox and Bucks officer who captured the bridge!

For a great account of this small unit action which secured the D-Day Eastern flank,, I can highly recommend Stephen E. Ambrose's "Pegasus Bridge". Very unusual to find an American author doing a book on a British action, but he does it superbly.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/insideout/eastmidlands/series2/dday_richardtodd_war.shtml

 

The original's indeed a good film. Great work on flying scenes, both real and SFX, The scenes in the R&D lab, making test shots with miniature models, followed by the planes making practice runs, kept me fully absorbed.

633 Squadron had a similar bent, with a story of unconventional tactics, carried out in Mosquitos. A bit more "Hollywood" than Dam Busters, but still enjoyable.

 

Just brought the original on DVD for $15, saw it years ago and loved it. Watched it agin and still enjoyed it, as PD says, especially the testing of the 'bouncing bomb'.

 

The Dam Busters was always one of my favorite WWII movies.

However, just like the Man Who Never Was, the book and movie were based on only partial declassification of the whole story. The book Operation Chastise by John Sweetman puts the whole story in context.

If Peter Jackson combines Paul Brickhill's The Dam Busters and the Sweetman book, he will create a different and very satisfying film.

 

I just watched the original Dam Busters movie, though good, I'll admit that the updated film version by Peter Jackson is definitely the one I'll most likely look forward to see.