Here’s one for you all.
About a year and a half ago now (I think) I read/heard rumours that Tom Cruise was/is going to star in a film titled ‘The Few’. He apparantl will play the role of Billy Fiske, the famous American Pilot who flew with the RAF.
Since these ‘rumours’, I have been able to find little or no information about the film, such as release date, when filming will be completed etc. I understand that Pramount Pictures are the company making the film.
Can anyone shed light on this?
By: DazDaMan - 8th August 2005 at 22:33
From memory i think he will only need room for the casket!!!!
Nah! He could sling it between the radiators and drop it on Jerry! 😀
By: The Blue Max - 8th August 2005 at 22:30
Hows Tom going to fit “Goose” into the back of a Spit ?? 😀
TNZ
From memory i think he will only need room for the casket!!!!
By: Corsair166b - 8th August 2005 at 22:15
Last I heard, and I don’t know if this still stands, Michael Mann, who just directed Cruise and Jamie Foxx in ‘Collateral’ (and which was an excellent movie) had signed on to do the directing, and he is apparently a stickler for detail and accuracy….so if he’s still attached, it could be one helluva film…
Personally, I’d love to see Spielberg do it also…him and Crusie working together again, and IMAGINE what the aerial scenes would look like….
Mark
By: DazDaMan - 8th August 2005 at 20:28
Keep an open mind guys, we may just be in for a treat, and a sympathetic one at that.
Hope so!
By: Snapper - 8th August 2005 at 20:26
The author is a Brit, a respected historian. His father was in the RAF during the war. the director is a well respected bloke too, and his father was RCAF during the war. It won’t just be Fiske. Theer were 3 Yanks in 609 too, and my understanding is that they will also be featured, along with the sqdn of course. Seems the writer got a wealth of useful material from somewhere….
Forget Pearl Harbor, it won’t be like that. Forget Top Gun, it won’t be like that. Hots Shots perhaps….. Keep an open mind guys, we may just be in for a treat, and a sympathetic one at that.
By: Corsair166b - 8th August 2005 at 19:47
I’m sensing a LOT of sarcasm on this thread for some reason….
M
By: DazDaMan - 8th August 2005 at 18:17
er…
from the link u provided us..
Plot Outline: Tom Cruise stars in the true-life story of American pilot Billy Fiske, who ignored his country’s neutrality rules in the early days of WWII and flew Hurricanes against the Germans.
Alex
If you read down the page, he’s not listed in the cast. IMDB don’t update their details too quickly sometimes!
By: darrenharbar - 8th August 2005 at 17:38
Hollywood are proberbly compiling the list of Mustangs and B-25’s to represent the RAF, as we speak! 😮
By: GASML - 8th August 2005 at 17:15
The Americans winning the Battle of Britain now?
I can hear several dozen former aviators reaching the rev limit in their graves already!
By: TEXANTOMCAT - 8th August 2005 at 17:06
Let’s hope when the Me-109’s are getting close to his patrol he doesn’t announce that he’s getting a h@#d-on !!!
TNZ
Can ME109s do a negative G Pushover? 😎
By: italian harvard - 8th August 2005 at 16:58
According to its IMDB entry, Cruise is NOT attached!
er…
from the link u provided us..
Plot Outline: Tom Cruise stars in the true-life story of American pilot Billy Fiske, who ignored his country’s neutrality rules in the early days of WWII and flew Hurricanes against the Germans.
Alex
By: turbo_NZ - 8th August 2005 at 14:14
Let’s hope when the Me-109’s are getting close to his patrol he doesn’t announce that he’s getting a h@#d-on !!!
TNZ
By: TEXANTOMCAT - 8th August 2005 at 13:31
I’m not sure but I think his ego is writing cheques that his body cant cash….
Coincidentally I also Feel the Neeed for Speeeeeed!
By: EN830 - 8th August 2005 at 12:32
It could be worse, it could feature that pseudo Australian and avid English knocker Melvyn Gibson !!!!
I do believe that young Snapper me lad, has had some contact with the author and producers. I’m sure that he’ll jump to their defence.
At Chailey last year I met the daughter of a chap who had been on the same squadron as Fiske during the BoB when he died. There is a poignant note in this chaps log book about the incident. He and several other pilots went to visit Fiske in hospital, if I remember right it was in Chitchester. Fiske was able to sit up and chat to them and they thought he would make a full recovery, he died of “shock” early the next morning.
By: setter - 8th August 2005 at 12:22
Tom IS a Goose so he can play both parts ……….
By: DazDaMan - 8th August 2005 at 12:11
He’ll borrow Caroline Grace’s, step on the brakes and…
Ding the bloody prop!!
By: Pete Truman - 8th August 2005 at 11:55
Hows Tom going to fit “Goose” into the back of a Spit ?? 😀
TNZ
He’ll borrow Caroline Grace’s, step on the brakes and let them fly right by.
By: turbo_NZ - 8th August 2005 at 11:48
Hows Tom going to fit “Goose” into the back of a Spit ?? 😀
TNZ
By: DazDaMan - 8th August 2005 at 11:25
According to its IMDB entry, Cruise is NOT attached!
By: setter - 8th August 2005 at 08:37
No Sir
It wasn’t me – don’t ban me I was just standing there – it was them – they threw the stones honest!!!!
I am sure the manifesto when complete will be a literary triumph as expected of a movie in which Mr Cruise will once again emphatically reinforce the huge role the US played in the BoB (Were they in the war then I forget). I expect his Spit will naturaly be cannon armed and have 20,000 rounds per gun to enable him to take out whole Squadrons of Bosch with a single burst.
He will then retire to a saucy night at the local B&B to give young Gwynth a night to remember and do it all again the next day, And they say I am a cynic!!! Why when You have such epistles to the talent of US filmakers like Pearl Jam no sorry Harbour and Totty Gun ( Mr Cruise at his finest if you recall)
Me taking the micky —- Never
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