Flyboys

["Doc" Devereux]

Word has reached me about an upcoming movie based on the Escadrille Lafeyette during the Great War. Anybody else heard anything?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0454824/

Full of biplane-y goodness, I hope...

 

[J. M. Stovall]

That sounds fun, did you see the trivia about them trying to use lightweight reproductions but there was some kind of accident?

 

["Doc" Devereux]

Many aircraft from that period are light enough that they need wingwalkers to take care of them on the ground anyway, so I dread to think what a "lightweight reproduction" would be like!

 

[Feraud]

This is the first I have heard of it. Thanks for the notice!
Here is a link to the official website if anyone is interested.

 

[scotrace]

And the Trailer, which is hard to get to.

THANKS for the heads up. Looks like there will be a ton of stuff in that sucker to go hunting for!

 

[Absinthe_1900]

I wish someone would do a W.W.I Air film without having a red Fokker triplane in it....:rage:

 

[mikepara]

Great trailer..

And the Trailer, which is hard to get to.

Thanks for that scotrace. Wow can't wait to see this movie.

 

[J. M. Stovall]

I especially like the "running along the top of the exploding airship" scene.:eusa_doh:

 

[Story]

What I meant to say, was...

The black fellow in the Escadrille, I vaguely remembered reading about him and had to go look. Figured some of you folk might find what I found of interest.

Eugene Jacques Bullard, the "Black Swallow of Death"
http://www.wpafb.af.mil/museum/history/ww1/ejb.htm
http://avstop.com/History/WomenPilots/BessieColemen.html
http://www.scuttlebuttsmallchow.com/bullard.html

 

[jake_fink]

It looks like it will look good but be bad, if you know what I mean.

Kinda drecky, but well art directed.

 

[scotrace]

Of course it's gonna suck scissors. I'll be there for the clothes. lol

 

[tallyho]

the last issue of Air & Space from the smithsonian had a full article on this movie. Of course it was mostly about the airplanes and the production but it was pretty much a fluff article seeming written by the producers. they used reproduction aircraft and some of the fake planes mentioned earlier. the backround planes were built in about a week and bbuilt like ultra lights. they were mainly to be used as backround filler, taxiing etc. they did have some sort of accident with one and decided to ground them. the article did say that the majority of the flying shots were of real flying replicas and there will be a minimum of CGI. the historical accuracy of the film was questioned and it was said this should be regarded as more of an adventure film than historical film. they made mention of how hunky the actors were. sounds to me like this will be a "Pearl Harbour" for the WW I crowd!

 

[Absinthe_1900]

Too many all red tri-planes, (Even Richtofen didn't have that many)... just once couldn't they use an Alb-D-3 replica instead.:eusa_doh:

 

[tallyho]

I just looked at their website. you guys are right about all those red Fokkers! theyre all over the place! I wonder if it occured to any of them that the Nieuport 17's were from 1916 and pretty much gone by mid 1917 and the Foker Dr. 1 didnt get into squadron service until Oct 1917. well I guess its better than stearmans vs. tigermoths!

 

[Absinthe_1900]

Hollywood would paint those red too.

I wonder if I could interest them in my old Cross & Cockade Journals.lol

 

[tallyho]

I wonder if I could interest them in my old Cross & Cockade Journals.lol

But that would involve research, and that is strictly forbidden by Hollywood codes and standards. you should know better!

 

[DanielJones]

This one looks like it may be promising. The areial combat footage looks to be very exciting, similat to the fottage in the Aviator when HH was shooting Hells Angels in the beginning of the film.
http://www.flyboysthemovie.com/
Jean Reno & James Franco are familiar faces anyway. Should be visually pleasing if nothing else.

Cheers!

Dan

 

[DancingSweetie]

Does that have anything to do with the book of the same name? It was a good book.

 

[DancingSweetie]

Oh, wrong war. Needless to say the book Flyboys was excellent, it was about the men who were shot down off Chichi Jima in WWII.

 

[Lena_Horne]

I just saw a commercial for yet another period piece, this time, from the WWI era, which I admittedly don't feel as though I have enough knowledge about it. It's odd. I watch documentaries, but it always seems as though I only have a tattered understanding. Either way, besides the fact that the actors are so unmistakably late-twentieth century in their physique (though that may just be my opinion, and besides, what could they possibly do to change that?) this looks like a wonderful film.

Official site: http://www.flyboysthemovie.com

IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0454824/

Trailer: http://www.apple.com/trailers/mgm/flyboys

So many new releases, so little time,

L_H