Upcoming WW2 Sub Movie "USS Seaviper"

Archie · 02-12-08, 04:37 AM

080129-N-2555N-313 MOBILE, Ala. (Jan. 29. 2008) Information Systems Technician 1st Class Joshua Shepard works inside a torpedo tube aboard the decommissioned World War II-era diesel submarine USS Drum (SS 228) to help prepare the submarine for the upcoming film "USS Seaviper." Mighty Moments Motion Pictures will begin filming in March 2008 and later plans to highlight Drum in a documentary. U.S. submarines – which made up only 2 percent of the U.S. fleet during the war – were responsible for 65 percent of all Japanese ships sunk. Drum sank 15 enemy ships. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Alec J. Noe (Released)

Anybody here anything elses about this? Not much on the net - http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2007/jun/...for-a-locally/

All sounds a little dodgy to say the least.....

Honkas · 02-12-08, 07:37 AM

most of all USS Seaviper sounds like a very hollywoodish and lame name for a submarine. Besides, to my knowledge at least, all US subs up until the Los Angeles class were named after fish or sea-mammals.

tomoose · 02-12-08, 07:47 AM

I'll second that. The article says "locally produced" so we're not talking big budget here. I guess that's what they call an "independent" film. While I'm dubious, you never know, it may turn out to be a crackerjack little movie. Time will tell.

Dogzero1 · 02-12-08, 08:06 AM

We shouldn't complain whatever the budget. Its in our interest bubble, so it should be fine and dandy.

Dogsbd · 02-12-08, 10:41 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dogzero1

We shouldn't complain whatever the budget. Its in our interest bubble, so it should be fine and dandy.

Exactly!

Sailor Steve · 02-12-08, 02:27 PM

Umm...so was U-571.

I'm hoping for the best, expecting the worst, and keeping a grain of salt handy just in case.

That picture, though - polishing the brightwork. Brings back memories.

Bad ones.:rotfl:

Nuc · 02-12-08, 04:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Honkas

most of all USS Seaviper sounds like a very hollywoodish and lame name for a submarine. Besides, to my knowledge at least, all US subs up until the Los Angeles class were named after fish or sea-mammals.

Don't forget the "41 for Freedom" boomers named for american 'freedom fighters'

donut · 02-12-08, 05:12 PM

"An American World War II submarine discovers a secret between Germany and Japan, and it must escape entrapment in order to deliver the information to Navy Headquarters before it's too late"

This film is in pre-production to be shot in Mobile, Alabama, aboard the WW2 submarine USS Drum and The Florida Treasure Coast.
Filming is scheduled for February 2008.
We have the crew established and will be shooting with the new super HD Red Camera www.red.com
USS SEAVIPER is now fully casted.
Parallel to the film USS SEAVIPER we are also producing a documentary on the USS DRUM a WW2 submarine that sank about 22 ships during WW2.The documentary will have interviews with Rear Admiral Rindskopf, who was the one of the Captains of the USS Drum. Along with Rear Admiral Rindskopf will be interviews with Commander Ramsing who also served on the USS Drum during WW2 and Rear Admiral Rindskopf's wife Sylvia who gives her feelings on how it was to be a mother and wife waiting for her husband to come home. The documentary will cover the battles fought by the Drum told by the veterans who served on the submarine in WW2.

A U.S. submarine is trapped below by a Japanese destroyer,
and its crew holds a secret for the turning point of WW II.
http://www.seaviper.net

U.S.S. SEAVIPER, the most tenacious submarine of a Navy wolf pack, has a commander whose dream is to have his boat "the best damn sub in the Navy!" It is September, 1944. Fresh from liberty on the island of Hawaii, SEAVIPER’s new mission from the Navy’s Com Sub Pac is to rescue downed airplane pilots. A radio ‘voice call’, in code (Little LuLu), is received from a distressed pilot by lifeguard ships. The boat within his coordinates is the U.S.S. SEAVIPER. The downed pilot, an American Navy airman, is rescued along with two Prisoners of War (POW) from a nearby island. But the Japanese and Germans also are discovered to be on this island together, and the submarine’s landing party needs to separate.
Forced to return to the boat while the Captain stays behind, the Chief Petty Officer realizes he must deal with unexpected changes in command; the Executive Officer being relieved of duty because of a head injury suffered during a depth charge attack and his rival rising to power. A stuck torpedo and structural damage to the boat from a Japanese destroyer becomes life-threatening and the boat’s survival is questioned. Under direct order from the boat’s Captain, he tries to maintain the boat’s position, regardless of the new Officer in Command who defies the direct order from the Captain, for the scheduled rendezvous with the landing party, and to deliver the enemy’s secret to Com Sub Pac.
Yet through it all, the CPO never fails to stop asking, searching for his missing brother. A brother, a flyboy, whose picture he holds close to his heart. With each new face, he hopes that maybe one will remember, or will know where his brother has gone

V.C. Sniper · 02-12-08, 07:53 PM

Let there be a movie about the godly Tang and O'Kane!!!

FAdmiral · 02-13-08, 01:50 PM

I sure hope this movie has some action instead of the heavy plot dialog that
hollywood seems to want to include in most movies today. Good example is
"Pearl Harbor", a 3 hour spectacular that in my opinion was a very good 1 hour
movie !! That 1 hour was the last hour of the film. The first 2 hrs. was garbage.

JIM

Seminole · 07-01-08, 04:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Honkas

most of all USS Seaviper sounds like a very hollywoodish and lame name for a submarine. Besides, to my knowledge at least, all US subs up until the Los Angeles class were named after fish or sea-mammals.

Well.. lets see there was the SeaDragon, the SeaWolf, the SeaRaven...I just don't see where the SeaViper is so out of place on that list.

Lets wait and see...who knows it might just be terriffic.

kholemann · 07-02-08, 09:37 AM

One thing folks just have to do with works of fiction is to divorce it from the actual realities of history that the piece wishes to change. So what if maybe a Captain never left his ship? So what if the actual turning point of WWII was some other historical event? Talk to 10 folks, get ten different opinions. Facts are still facts but fiction is just that, fiction. Factually based fiction has its critics, like me. My wife didn't enjoy U571 because I kept whispering to her about the discrepancies with history. What I should have done was just sat back and enjoyed the movie for what it was, a piece of artistic fiction. Das Boot has been said to have been unreal by just as many ex-u-boat captains as there ones that may have supported the movie. So what! I am going to go see the Seaviper movie in the theater or via DVD. If you want the movie to be 100% based on actual events then it is no longer a movie but a documentary. The Midway movie was fiction based on actual events but it was still fiction. Pearl Harbor (the movie) had its good points but it was still fiction (I didn't like it that much). Thus, my take on any movie is to sit back, enjoy the popcorn, and if the movie is good, stop analyzing it and enjoy it (if it is a well done movie). I loved Countdown until the very end. I saw it in the theater once and never saw it again. I so wanted our guys to not go back through the wormhole in time and just blast the Zeros with F-14s (or whatever they had). That would have been awesome (even though the whole thing was ahistorical to begin with).

Sailor Steve · 07-02-08, 09:41 AM

Very well said, kholemann. If I don't like the movie I'll certainly say so, but I'm going to see it first before I make that judgement.

Doolittle81 · 07-02-08, 01:14 PM

I just hope that the make-up crew makes an effort to de-beautify the actors...For example, in real life in the WWII era, very few folks had perfect, braces-produced, brilliantly white Porcelain-veneer teeth/smiles. Unfortunately, Hollywood-type actors can't get a job without such 'Looks'.

Consider Das Boot, which avoided the Beautiful Actor syndrome: "Most of the filming was done in one year; to make the appearance of the actors as realistic as possible, scenes were filmed in sequence over the course of the year. This ensured natural growth of beards and hair, increasing skin pallor, and signs of strain on the actors, who had, just like real U-boat men, spent many months in a cramped, unhealthy atmosphere.

Throughout the filming, the actors were forbidden to go out into the sunlight, to create the pallor of men who seldom saw the sun during their missions.

Think about the appearance of the Chief Mechanic, Johann:

RED JOHNSON · 02-13-08, 04:52 PM

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The possible gain that this new film might have on us in the Submarine Fleet is that every time those same Producers become aware of another refurbished and fully operational WWII Fleet Boat , there is a good chance that they, Maybe even Spielberg himself , might realize the Availability of that reconditioned Sub for thier own potential Epic Sub Movie. Let us hope that this will be the result of all this.

02-12-08, 04:37 AM	#1
Archie Medic Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: The South Pacific, No, Really.... The South Pacific Posts: 165 Downloads: 73 Uploads: 0	Upcoming WW2 Sub Movie "USS Seaviper" 080129-N-2555N-313 MOBILE, Ala. (Jan. 29. 2008) Information Systems Technician 1st Class Joshua Shepard works inside a torpedo tube aboard the decommissioned World War II-era diesel submarine USS Drum (SS 228) to help prepare the submarine for the upcoming film "USS Seaviper." Mighty Moments Motion Pictures will begin filming in March 2008 and later plans to highlight Drum in a documentary. U.S. submarines – which made up only 2 percent of the U.S. fleet during the war – were responsible for 65 percent of all Japanese ships sunk. Drum sank 15 enemy ships. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Alec J. Noe (Released) Anybody here anything elses about this? Not much on the net - http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2007/jun/...for-a-locally/ All sounds a little dodgy to say the least..... __________________ __________________ "I can imagine no more rewarding a career. And any man who may be asked in this century what he did to make his life worthwhile, I think can respond with a good deal of pride and satisfaction: 'I served in the United States Navy.'" President John F. Kennedy, Last edited by Archie; 02-12-08 at 05:22 AM.

02-12-08, 07:47 AM	#3
tomoose Grey Wolf Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 930 Downloads: 23 Uploads: 0	dodgy I'll second that. The article says "locally produced" so we're not talking big budget here. I guess that's what they call an "independent" film. While I'm dubious, you never know, it may turn out to be a crackerjack little movie. Time will tell.

02-12-08, 08:06 AM	#4
Dogzero1 Bosun Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 62 Downloads: 54 Uploads: 0	We shouldn't complain whatever the budget. Its in our interest bubble, so it should be fine and dandy. __________________

02-12-08, 02:27 PM	#6
Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	Umm...so was U-571. I'm hoping for the best, expecting the worst, and keeping a grain of salt handy just in case. That picture, though - polishing the brightwork. Brings back memories. Bad ones.:rotfl: __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo

02-12-08, 05:12 PM	#8
donut The Old Man Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: The Shifting, Whispering Sands, NM Posts: 1,463 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	Cool "An American World War II submarine discovers a secret between Germany and Japan, and it must escape entrapment in order to deliver the information to Navy Headquarters before it's too late" This film is in pre-production to be shot in Mobile, Alabama, aboard the WW2 submarine USS Drum and The Florida Treasure Coast. Filming is scheduled for February 2008. We have the crew established and will be shooting with the new super HD Red Camera www.red.com USS SEAVIPER is now fully casted. Parallel to the film USS SEAVIPER we are also producing a documentary on the USS DRUM a WW2 submarine that sank about 22 ships during WW2.The documentary will have interviews with Rear Admiral Rindskopf, who was the one of the Captains of the USS Drum. Along with Rear Admiral Rindskopf will be interviews with Commander Ramsing who also served on the USS Drum during WW2 and Rear Admiral Rindskopf's wife Sylvia who gives her feelings on how it was to be a mother and wife waiting for her husband to come home. The documentary will cover the battles fought by the Drum told by the veterans who served on the submarine in WW2. A U.S. submarine is trapped below by a Japanese destroyer, and its crew holds a secret for the turning point of WW II. http://www.seaviper.net U.S.S. SEAVIPER, the most tenacious submarine of a Navy wolf pack, has a commander whose dream is to have his boat "the best damn sub in the Navy!" It is September, 1944. Fresh from liberty on the island of Hawaii, SEAVIPER’s new mission from the Navy’s Com Sub Pac is to rescue downed airplane pilots. A radio ‘voice call’, in code (Little LuLu), is received from a distressed pilot by lifeguard ships. The boat within his coordinates is the U.S.S. SEAVIPER. The downed pilot, an American Navy airman, is rescued along with two Prisoners of War (POW) from a nearby island. But the Japanese and Germans also are discovered to be on this island together, and the submarine’s landing party needs to separate. Forced to return to the boat while the Captain stays behind, the Chief Petty Officer realizes he must deal with unexpected changes in command; the Executive Officer being relieved of duty because of a head injury suffered during a depth charge attack and his rival rising to power. A stuck torpedo and structural damage to the boat from a Japanese destroyer becomes life-threatening and the boat’s survival is questioned. Under direct order from the boat’s Captain, he tries to maintain the boat’s position, regardless of the new Officer in Command who defies the direct order from the Captain, for the scheduled rendezvous with the landing party, and to deliver the enemy’s secret to Com Sub Pac. Yet through it all, the CPO never fails to stop asking, searching for his missing brother. A brother, a flyboy, whose picture he holds close to his heart. With each new face, he hopes that maybe one will remember, or will know where his brother has gone

02-12-08, 07:37 AM	#2
Honkas Swabbie Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 9 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	most of all USS Seaviper sounds like a very hollywoodish and lame name for a submarine. Besides, to my knowledge at least, all US subs up until the Los Angeles class were named after fish or sea-mammals.

02-12-08, 07:53 PM	#9
V.C. Sniper Watch Officer Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 339 Downloads: 1 Uploads: 0	Let there be a movie about the godly Tang and O'Kane!!! __________________ I only need one torpedo.

02-13-08, 01:50 PM	#10
FAdmiral Pacific Aces Dev Team Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Atlanta, GA, USA Posts: 1,079 Downloads: 6 Uploads: 0	I sure hope this movie has some action instead of the heavy plot dialog that hollywood seems to want to include in most movies today. Good example is "Pearl Harbor", a 3 hour spectacular that in my opinion was a very good 1 hour movie !! That 1 hour was the last hour of the film. The first 2 hrs. was garbage. JIM __________________ If you\'re not taking losses, you\'re not doing enough. RAdm. Kelly Turner, USN ********************************** www.fairtax.org

07-02-08, 09:37 AM	#12
kholemann Gunner Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 98 Downloads: 27 Uploads: 0	One thing folks just have to do with works of fiction is to divorce it from the actual realities of history that the piece wishes to change. So what if maybe a Captain never left his ship? So what if the actual turning point of WWII was some other historical event? Talk to 10 folks, get ten different opinions. Facts are still facts but fiction is just that, fiction. Factually based fiction has its critics, like me. My wife didn't enjoy U571 because I kept whispering to her about the discrepancies with history. What I should have done was just sat back and enjoyed the movie for what it was, a piece of artistic fiction. Das Boot has been said to have been unreal by just as many ex-u-boat captains as there ones that may have supported the movie. So what! I am going to go see the Seaviper movie in the theater or via DVD. If you want the movie to be 100% based on actual events then it is no longer a movie but a documentary. The Midway movie was fiction based on actual events but it was still fiction. Pearl Harbor (the movie) had its good points but it was still fiction (I didn't like it that much). Thus, my take on any movie is to sit back, enjoy the popcorn, and if the movie is good, stop analyzing it and enjoy it (if it is a well done movie). I loved Countdown until the very end. I saw it in the theater once and never saw it again. I so wanted our guys to not go back through the wormhole in time and just blast the Zeros with F-14s (or whatever they had). That would have been awesome (even though the whole thing was ahistorical to begin with).

07-02-08, 09:41 AM	#13
Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	Very well said, kholemann. If I don't like the movie I'll certainly say so, but I'm going to see it first before I make that judgement. __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo

07-02-08, 01:14 PM	#14
Doolittle81 Commodore Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Las Vegas, Nevada Posts: 624 Downloads: 6 Uploads: 0	I just hope that the make-up crew makes an effort to de-beautify the actors...For example, in real life in the WWII era, very few folks had perfect, braces-produced, brilliantly white Porcelain-veneer teeth/smiles. Unfortunately, Hollywood-type actors can't get a job without such 'Looks'. Consider Das Boot, which avoided the Beautiful Actor syndrome: "Most of the filming was done in one year; to make the appearance of the actors as realistic as possible, scenes were filmed in sequence over the course of the year. This ensured natural growth of beards and hair, increasing skin pallor, and signs of strain on the actors, who had, just like real U-boat men, spent many months in a cramped, unhealthy atmosphere. Throughout the filming, the actors were forbidden to go out into the sunlight, to create the pallor of men who seldom saw the sun during their missions. Think about the appearance of the Chief Mechanic, Johann:

02-13-08, 04:52 PM	#15
RED JOHNSON Watch Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Battle Ground , Washington Posts: 27 Downloads: 28 Uploads: 0	Let's think Possitive . The possible gain that this new film might have on us in the Submarine Fleet is that every time those same Producers become aware of another refurbished and fully operational WWII Fleet Boat , there is a good chance that they, Maybe even Spielberg himself , might realize the Availability of that reconditioned Sub for thier own potential Epic Sub Movie. Let us hope that this will be the result of all this.