Midway Movie $200 million Remake

texas_ex2000

texas_ex2000

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Yesssss...
The Pacific writer/producer gets greenlight for Battle of Midway remake in 3D.

Can you imagine telling the story of that battle with today's special effects? It'd be like Battlestar Galactica...but REAL CARRIER WARFARE. It would be the Navy's Saving Private Ryan. If Bruce McKenna is in it (The Pacific writer/producer), I have faith that the script, the most important part in telling the story of Midway, will be quality.

If Midway could be the Navy's Saving Private Ryan, I think a mini-series on Enterprise/Air Group 6 or the Naval Campaign of Guadalcanal (which is more impressive to me from an operational standpoint...and from a drama standpoint) could be the Navy's Band of Brothers. HBO/Playtone do it.
 
Sign me up! I love the original and always will but this is one that I look forward to some interpretations and special effects.
 
The original, in Sensaround!, provided me with my first real sense of what carrier combat in WWII was about. The personal stories were hokie, but the battle was gripping.

I hope they show restraint with special effects. Among the many unwatchable things about a Michael Bay film is how the special effects always announce themselves as special effects.

The original Midway uses much of the actual film footage from the war. That imparts a nice grittiness and authenticity. You have to be careful with special effects to fake those things.
 
Yeah the original Midway movie with Heston, Fonda et al is one of my favorite war movies also.

Just hope it doesn't wind up being a POS like that Pearl Harbor movie.
 
Midway is a great topic for a movie. Of course I'm a history nut and felt the aerial view of battleship row from the perspective of Japanese attackers was worth the full price of admission to Pearl Harbor, a movie with many shortcomings elsewhere. I think the makers of the new Midway movie had just as well leave out a love story in this one. My wife hasn't watched a war movie with me since we rented Gettysburg a decade ago and I don't think she'll sit through this one either.
 
texasex2000,

I think jmatt is using the example I have in mind. I don't mean to suggest they use no special effects, I just hope they show the kind of restraint that must have been used in Saving Private Ryan. In Pearl Harbor, the effects are like a cartoon rather than a war movie. In short, I think we're looking for the same thing from the effects unit.

gemstate, lol.
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Lot of great actors in the later parts of their careers here. Glen Ford, Burgess Meredith, Robert Mitchum and Henry Fonda as the Fredericksburg boy.
 
Hmmmm. I may be thinking of In Harm's Way. Hal Holbrook held a similar role in Midway. Intelligence officer.

Oh well. At least I didn't say John Wayne or Errol Flynn.
 
While I think a Midway 3D movie would be appropriate, there could be really wonderful, complex film made about the Battle off Samar. Lots of raw guts and courage.There were a lots of tragic mistakes and bizarre good luck in that story when a rag tag bunch of tin can sailors took on the cream of the Japanese navy. Just one of the Japanese battleships outweighed the whole armada of little American ships that were drawn into that fight. But the Americans in destroyers and destroyer escorts put up such a scrap the battleships and heavy cruisers turned back just a few miles from shelling the American landing forces.

Also worth mentioning is that fact that at a local veterans luncheon I was lucky enough to visit with a man who served aboard the Yorktown at Coral Sea and Midway. He worked prepping the Yorktown torpedo planes for a mission from which few returned.
 
YESSSS!

However, if they cut away in the middle of the battle scene to the girlfriend back in Hawaii, or the family in Iowa, I will slit my wrists.
 
PFD, second that recommendation.

I am reading Hornfischers new book about the naval battle of Guadalcanal called "Neptunes Inferno".

Just released and I think it is his best book yet.
 
The Dallas Morning News recently ran a glowing review of Hornfischer's new book, Neptune's Inferno. I definitely need to pick up a copy.

Hornfischer was a law school classmate of mine, so I've always followed his books and his career with interest.
 
Actually PFD, I've read a summary of a book and the wikipedia article. I think I would love the book, but just haven't yet bought a copy. Ex2000, I did see the History Channel Special on the Battle off Samar. That was certainly worth watching.
 
I have read a ton of WWII books over the years and recency bias or not, I think Neptunes Inferno is as strong as any book I have ever read on the war.

I would kill to have Hornfischer take on the Battle of Leyte Gulf.

Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors was excellent but he has taken up a few notches.

I re-watched "Midway" a while back. Honestly its a very mediocre movie. They can do a lot better than that. The script was kind of a mess.
 
I honestly had a dream the other night how I would love to make a remake of Midway and not douche it up like Pearl Harbor. Sounds like it's being done by guys involved with the Pacific, so it should be done relatively well, and not by Bruckheimer. Would be funny though if they used footage from the Doolittle raid from PH, ala the footage from 30 Seconds Over Tokyo used in Midway.
 
My favorite line about Pearl Harbor was from Roger Ebert who called it a movie about the Japanese invasion of an American love triangle.
 
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