"Dambusters" Casting

Sounds like a fine English pedigree….
Those of you who were howling mad about the possibily of “Hollywoodization” (made in the U.S. or heaven forbid, someone other than an ethically pure Englishman, playing the Gibson role) will no doubt still find something to complain about.

Hey, save the Yank-bashing-bashing until we’ve done some!!! 😀

Funny how no-one seemed to mind Damien Lewis leading in Band of Brothers.

Anyone who acts well, looks right and can do the accent is OK with me.

(and I think you mean ‘ethnically pure’…? Anyway, a concept that doesn’t exist for Englishmen)

Filming in Wellington, New Zealand, with Chinese made Lancaster replicas…..

Mark

Sounds like a fine English pedigree….
Those of you who were howling mad about the possibily of “Hollywoodization” (made in the U.S. or heaven forbid, someone other than an ethically pure Englishman, playing the Gibson role) will no doubt still find something to complain about.

GET YOUR HAIR CUT!…sir. 😀

Drill instructor: ‘Am I ‘urtin you son’?

Pilot in training: ‘No sir’

Drill instructor: ‘Well I ought to be, I’m standin’ on your ‘air. Get it cut!’

Filming in Wellington, New Zealand, with Chinese made Lancaster replicas, according to my wife’s paper, late edition, …the Mail.:eek:

Mark

Hands up who would like to be an extra?

[Donkey]Oh, pick me, pick me! [/Donkey]

😀

Hands up who would like to be an extra? Where does one apply?

GET YOUR HAIR CUT!…sir. 😀

The same can be said for almost any newspaper you care to name, they all seem to have some form of political bias as well.

They are worse than most, believe me.

There’s no ‘England is going to the dogs’ angle in this story though so it might not be quite so much fiction. On the other hand, stories mooting potential casting for films are generall just ‘filler’ and based on very little. Look at all the stories where it was ‘revealed’ who the new James Bond was going to be.

Well they have the same…number of noses…

McEvoy’s a decent actor, and he can do English accents – Starter for Ten, Atonement, The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe etc…

I wouldn’t pay much attention to the Mail anyway. Never let the facts get in the way of a good lie.

The same can be said for almost any newspaper you care to name, they all seem to have some form of political bias as well.

If you look more closely you will see that McAvoy and Gibson have very similar jawlines and eyes. I think with the right costume ,haircut and makeup McAvoy could look very like Gibson. Remember how George C Scott was made up to look like Patton back in 1970.

Richard Todd had the right height and build and body language to play Gibson but facially he wasn’t similar and he was really too old. Gibson looked very “boyish” as does McAvoy.

Colin

Well they have the same…number of noses…

McEvoy’s a decent actor, and he can do English accents – Starter for Ten, Atonement, The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe etc…

I wouldn’t pay much attention to the Mail anyway. Never let the facts get in the way of a good lie.

I was struck by the resemblance between Gibson and McAvoy.

Sorry, I’m not.

We are talking ‘Daily Mail’ here.

Moggy

I think he will have to devour a few burgers to look like Gibson and take a master class from David Tennant and Robert Carlisle as to how to lose his Scottish accent, but otherwise, better than Tom Cruise ain’t it.