There's good reason for optimism, as Hanks has proven himself more than capable as both writer and actor. Sony just acquired the worldwide rights, which bodes well for distribution. And Hanks has based his script appropriately on C.S. Forster's "The Good Shepherd" -- which justifies the age of his character:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Good_Shepherd_(novel)

The one reason we might want to lower our expectations: the budget is about $30 million. These days, esp. for a war movie, that's not much. By contrast, "Captain Phillips" cost $55 million, and "Sully" cost $60 million.

This movie is the real deal. Trust me.

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hahah. Yes.
I don´t post much around. Whenever I find some time I play SH5 and SC.

...and I work in cool film projects with strong NDAs that don´t allow me to explain the details on how awesome they might be. :salute:

ditto.


I wish they would do October Fury as a movie, about the Cuban Missile Crisis.

I'll always go back to The Missiles Of October. :up:
Or, as I sometimes call it, The Revenge Of The Character Actors. :D

Sure, William Devane had to learn to talk like JFK and he deserved top billing, but (a young) Martin Sheen delivers as Bobby and that guy, what's his name?, he always played the high school principal.., well, you get the idea. :03:

While shot for TV in a TV studio (I think it was Lorimar?) on a TV budget, Missiles still holds up. Khrushchev comes off as almost campy in the Three Minute Egg scene and this is the closest I've seen to the REAL Gen. LeMay.

(To paraphrase-)

"Mr. President, just give the order and SAC will reply in full.."
"Against Cuber? Wouldn't that be over kill?"
"Nooo.. Not against Cuba.."


:o

So, great performances across the board AND done on a fairly low budget. :yeah:

The giant pool makes a brief appearance in Shin Godzilla when it’s filled with mud and composited over a live action shot. Long live the giant pool.

No rubber suit though :(

I would like to see a nice movie about Karl Muller and the Emden.

The problem is that if they made it true to life, no one would believe it. :03:

Wish granted.
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"Are you my mother?"

Jim back in the day, when he had hair.
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No Buna's were harmed in this picture although a lot of bananas were consumed.

:haha:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyzxu26-Wqk


Uuh...now i´m hyped...
And when a trailer has these alp-horns i´m always lost...

Why are the U-boats roaring?

They aren't. It's clearly part of the film score edited to the rhythm of the trailer. It's about creating a mood to help market the film. For all we know that may not be the films actual score. It sounds very Dunkirk-esque.

Pretty sure I never read about that part of the Battle of the Atlantic where U-boats with goofy conning tower emblems were doing Age-of-Sail style drive-bys on American destroyers which massively outgunned them.


Yes, I know I'm an idiot for expecting slow-burn tension or realism in a modern war movie.

That's obviously because it was so effective no Ally commander survived to tell about it. And the submariners don't talk about it to this day because it's a highly classified and effective tactic even using nuclear submarines.

Duh.

IMO, we have better such an maybe unrealistic naval war-film as none...
Cause we have one naval war-film in 10? years...

Hanks is involved. The movie will be good. Embellished a bit? Perhaps. Some oddities? Certainly. However, the movie gets the events that occurred in the Atlantic during the war out there for all to see and remember. If the movie spurns interest to look deeper into the events for just one individual then it has done it's job.

I am really looking forward to this one. I have just bought today the book it is based on.

I have high hopes. About time we got a modern movie based on WWII tim cans.
:Kaleun_Cheers: