"The Few" abandoned – "Flying Tigers" instead?

Yes- its a (slightly baffling) reference to the next Cruise film ‘Valkyrie[/url]

Ah,

Right.

Well I looked at that and I have to say this Carice van Houten bit of crumpet will probably make the best Nazi moll since Helga in ‘allo ‘allo.

Following that through there seems to be a B17 having a very bad day in the picture on this page

http://www.imdb.com/gallery/ss/0389557/Ss/0389557/5.jpg.html?path=pgallery&path_key=Houten,%20Carice%20van

Now with Stephen Fry, Eddie Izzard and Bill Nighy in it then Valkyrie must be going to be a comedy, surely?

Moggy

With all these WWII films Tom Cruise has been linked to or has stated he wants to make, I can’t help thinking he has been re-reading his collection of old Commando Comics whilst looking for inspiration to resurrect his dying career.

Can anyone explain this post to me please?

Moggy :confused:

Yes- its a (slightly baffling) reference to the next Cruise film ‘Valkyrie’ – due for release next year. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0985699/

Can anyone explain this post to me please?

Moggy :confused:

I think its a quote from Nostradamus. Or possibly Lewis Carroll.

I Am ever so slightly not APPYY with the mis information dispersed on this forum Try ” Valkrie ” Mr Cruise one star G-BWUE Another

The doG in the bottle again

Can anyone explain this post to me please?

Moggy :confused:

Can’t Tom Cruise do a remake of 1942 then? If there is one accurate film on the subject, this one must be it…

Oh, and a not-boring version of Catch-22 would be nice. One-third as funny as the book would already be excellent.

It is cancelled.

i sincerley hope the americans dont do a remake of the BoB, given their liking for changing history to suite themselves (U 571 was a prime example) it would be an insult and a half, or maybe the BoB was fought over the skies of california.

Geez…we’ve been through this before.
No one has said anything about a BoB remake.
Look at the thread title, “The Few” was about a a real American pilot in the BoB and it has appearently been cancelled.

i sincerley hope the americans dont do a remake of the BoB, given their liking for changing history to suite themselves (U 571 was a prime example) it would be an insult and a half, or maybe the BoB was fought over the skies of california.

This is you isn´t it?

Aaah, the Major, I believe – capital fellow, proper Englishman, bit funny about women though… His most memorable lines were something like, “No no no no no, Fawlty – Indians ain’t niggers! No no, Indians are Wogs!”
Which I haven’t heard for so long that I suspect the Beeb has either censored them, or suppressed the entire episode in which they were spoken – wouldn’t surprise me at all.
hps

Thank God for that! An American version of the BoB would feature gum chewing, sunglass wearing, all-American boys in cockpits big enough to have a dance showing the stupid Brits how to win the war. My God, it doesn’t bear thinking about.

I’ll stick to watching the 1960’s version – it seems to be on TV every 3 months or so.

RB

This is you isn´t it?

Despite it not making its debut till a year after Raiders of the Lost Ark?

Something to do with the fact that Gold Monkey was about five years old by the time it was showen in this country as you say was 12 months before we got Indiana Jones which was about 18 months -2 years old when we got it here. On that basis Gold Monkey beat ROTLA by something in the region of 4 years.

I too remember ‘Tales of the Gold Monkey’ not a bad show which I feel totally preempted the Indiana Jones concept.

Despite it not making its debut till a year after Raiders of the Lost Ark?

Please, no! This would be almost as embarrassingly, terminally dreadful as the BoB idea, which someone else above has also remarked on. Apart from the cringe-making potential of seeing Cruise as a supposed Spit pilot (he didn’t really make the grade even in Top Gun, no credibility even with the interesting Anthony Edwards as his GIB, and these days he’s much too old given the extraordinary youth of typical BoB pilots) there is simply not the hardware or, more crucially, the concern for historical accuracy, to do yet another WW2 intrepid-birdman movie.
I’d love to see a dead-accurate WW2 flying movie, but it would be box office suicide: the mass audience would laugh at the accents, the “dated” humour, the mores, the fashions; then the next minute they’d be horrified & depressed at the death rate, the appalling injuries, the spartan conditions, the bad teeth, the dreary food, the overwhelming petty bureaucracy of wartime Britain.
It was bad enough in the ’60s, with limp, cardboardy efforts like Battle of Britain and 633 Squadron featuring 3rd-rank matinee idols of the day (OK, + Olivier in a minor role); but now, not a chance.
Give me Target For Tonight, Enemy Coast Ahead…
hps

‘Overwhelming, petty bureaucracy of the period’ welcome to the 21st century (sounds very much like the present day proving that the more some things change the more they stay the same)
XN923, stop showing your age, I too remember ‘Tales of the Gold Monkey’ not a bad show which I feel totally preempted the Indiana Jones concept.

I Am ever so slightly not APPYY with the mis information dispersed on this forum Try ” Valkrie ” Mr Cruise one star G-BWUE Another

The doG in the bottle again

I’ve heard a good rumor that Tom Cruise won’t be making a BoB film or a Flying Tigers movie, but rather one involving the war in the desert of N. Africa, with Spitfires, Panzers, and ? And that Robs Lamplough’s Spitfire will be used.

Please, no! This would be almost as embarrassingly, terminally dreadful as the BoB idea, which someone else above has also remarked on. Apart from the cringe-making potential of seeing Cruise as a supposed Spit pilot (he didn’t really make the grade even in Top Gun, no credibility even with the interesting Anthony Edwards as his GIB, and these days he’s much too old given the extraordinary youth of typical BoB pilots) there is simply not the hardware or, more crucially, the concern for historical accuracy, to do yet another WW2 intrepid-birdman movie.
I’d love to see a dead-accurate WW2 flying movie, but it would be box office suicide: the mass audience would laugh at the accents, the “dated” humour, the mores, the fashions; then the next minute they’d be horrified & depressed at the death rate, the appalling injuries, the spartan conditions, the bad teeth, the dreary food, the overwhelming petty bureaucracy of wartime Britain.
It was bad enough in the ’60s, with limp, cardboardy efforts like Battle of Britain and 633 Squadron featuring 3rd-rank matinee idols of the day (OK, + Olivier in a minor role); but now, not a chance.
Give me Target For Tonight, Enemy Coast Ahead…
hps

I’ve heard a good rumor that Tom Cruise won’t be making a BoB film or a Flying Tigers movie, but rather one involving the war in the desert of N. Africa, with Spitfires, Panzers, and ? And that Robs Lamplough’s Spitfire will be used.

Could this be “The War Magician” ,the proposed film about camouflage/deception expert Jasper Maskeylene which was announced a few years ago as a Tom Cruise project but has still not appeared?

Colin

Would be good if it was true…

I’ve heard a good rumor that Tom Cruise won’t be making a BoB film or a Flying Tigers movie, but rather one involving the war in the desert of N. Africa, with Spitfires, Panzers, and ? And that Robs Lamplough’s Spitfire will be used.

Flying Tigers

http://english.pladaily.com.cn/site2/news-channels/2007-06/07/content_839483.htm

‘Chinese WWII nurse for US Air Force’s “Flying Tigers” dies’

english.chinamil.com.cn 2007-06-07

　　KUNMING, June 6 (Xinhua) — Rita Wong, a Chinese nurse who cared for injured members of a United States Air Force squadron known as the “Flying Tigers” during the Second World War, died at the age of 95 on Tuesday in Kunming, capital of southwest China’s Yunnan Province.