Ok…whoa…back up….how come this is the first I’ve heard of this NEW Battle of Midway production by Spielberg/Hanks? Whycome this has’nt been mentioned in all of our discussions of aviation movies before this? Details, man, details!! Let’s hear more! This is phenomenal news to me!!
Yes, the footage of a large flying boat being shot down and crashing at sea is in the old version of Midway…as I recall, it was taken out by Mustangs, but in the film you just see two planes zooming up as the plane impacts the sea, you can’t tell what they are….and the C-130 footage I mention is of such dubious quality that you have to really strain to see what it is (filling in for a Japanese Emily or Mavis recon plane) and it is only for a few seconds…Truth be told, this movie has had so much added and taken away from it over the years (my DVD version has NO Coral Sea battle footage in it, but I recall seeing that version of it on TV) that it is hard to tell what the original version actually contained! The producers got ahold of $60,000 worth of archival footage for this movie to use in it, the studio balked at the price, and the producers showed them what they wanted to use and then asked them how much they thought it would cost to RE-CREATE what was in the archival footage in modern day 1976….the studio suddenly agreed that $60,000 was’nt such a bad price!! And yes, a WHOLE LOT of ‘Tora Tora Tora’s’ attack scenes were used in the movie, but to what I think is rather good effect….never heard that the original TTT producers were dissappointed to see parts of their film rehashed.
Now…what’s all this about a new Midway film?
Mark
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