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May 25, 2018 - 10:54 AM
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dragon53
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FRIDAY, MAY 25
SICARIO: DAY OF THE SOLDADO---new trailer released for the sequel.
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Um5vH28jcFk
BOBA FETT---Lucasfilm announced that James Mangold (LOGAN, WOLVERINE) will be the writer/director of a Boba Fett movie that is part of the A STAR WARS STORY series. Simon Kinberg (X-MEN) will reportedly be the co-writer.
James Bond---Eon Productions announced that Danny Boyle (SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE) will direct the 25th James Bond movie. John Hodge (TRAINSPOTTING) will write the script.
WONDER WOMAN---Chris Pine was supposedly photographed on the film set in Alexandria, Virginia which led to additional rumors that he is returning for the sequel. However, the photo wasn't clear enough to confirm he was really there.
Also, Warner Bros. registered website domains which hint at the sequel's title.
wonderwoman1980.com
wonderwoman1981.com
wonderwoman1982.com
wonderwoman1983.com
wonderwoman1984.com
wonderwoman1985.com
wonderwoman1986.com
wonderwoman1987.com
wonderwoman1988.com
wonderwoman1989.com
MY DEAREST FIDEL---Gal Gadot is the star/producer of this movie about ABC journalist Lisa Howard and her "intimate diplomacy" with Fidel Castro which helped in Washington's secret communications with Havana during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
THE LAST THING HE WANTED----Anne Hathaway stars in this Netflix movie based on the Joan Didion novel about a woman journalist who inherits her father's position as an arms sales deal-maker during the Iran-Contra Scandal.
DRAGON EMPIRE---Walt Disney Pictures animated movie underway about a girl named Jan-Nin who teams up with Bolin, her 900 year-old mentor, on a quest involving dragons.
BASKETS---FX renewed the series for Season 4.
HAIR LIVE!---NBC live broadcast underway based on the Broadway musical.
TRIVIA---May 27 is the 77th anniversary of the sinking of the German super battleship Bismarck during World War II. In the movie SINK THE BISMARCK, the Bismarck is shown sinking the British battlecruiser HMS Hood and the destroyer HMS Solent. However, the Solent's sinking was fiction that was added for drama.
In SINK THE BISMARCK, the Bismarck sinks HMS Hood, the pride of the Royal Navy.
In SINK THE BISMARCK, the fictitious destroyer HMS Solent hits the Bismarck with a torpedo and is then sunk by the German battleship. The real HMS Solent was a submarine that was launched in 1944---three years after the movie was set.
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May 26, 2018 - 9:09 AM
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Grecchus
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I've only got Bob Ballard's book on finding the Bismarck to go on, really, with a few other paper sources. As you will probably know, following the Armistice of WWI, the interned German fleet was scuttled at Scapa Flow. This event would make a very interesting piece of drama in itself. I think any crew member on Bismarck would probably go along with scuttling the ship - it was probably expected anyway to obviate the possibility of the hull falling into enemy hands, although, I personally think it is a split-hair issue and the first order of business would be trying to survive the situation of being under sustained and directed heavy fire. For anyone that is not familiar with the story, Bismarck was eventually cornered and completely surrounded, with every type of shell imaginable raining down on the mangled superstructure. To be on that ship would have been Hell. To some, it would have been a matter of pride to despatch the ship prior to letting the enemy claim to have sunk it. You can also argue whether or not this was exactly the same situation faced by the Admiral Graf Spee following the Battle Of The River Plate, although, it is most remarkable two German surface raiders ended up suffering almost the same fate in the double manner of Invincible and Hood.
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May 26, 2018 - 12:04 PM
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Grecchus
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Not knowing anything about the Bismarck...it has been fascinating reading your posts on this Grecchus. Thanks
Cheers, Rick. And did you know that one of the German veteran dreadnoughts from Jutland that was not scuttled, the Ostfriesland, had a somewhat ignominious fate?
Ostfriesland ended up in American hands following the Great War. With the coming of the mighty airplane, it became a personal project of some magnitude for Billy Mitchell to demonstrate that a big ship could be sunk by air power alone. In the end, he was given Ostfriesland with which to demonstrate his outrageous claim.
After being systematically pummelled, the great Ostfriesland eventually rolled over and sank. Even though the ship had no system of defence and was treated as little more than a hulk, grown military men openly wept when she was sunk. The sight of a great ship going down is a pretty emotional event, no matter what the circumstance. Not the best of fates for a veteran of Jutland 1916 - as you can see, she is still remembered by a later generation. I wonder why that is?
http://www.modellversium.de/galerie/26-schiffe-ww1/3489-sms-ostfriesland-kombrig.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkbQ-qYzrY0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pk9mYKM61U
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May 26, 2018 - 3:53 PM
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dragon53
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One of the great ironies is that German submarine U-556 was between the aircraft carrier Ark Royal (as it was about to launch its Swordfish torpedo bombers which damaged the Bismarck's rudder which led to its sinking) and the battlecruiser Renown. The U-boat could have sunk both ships SIMULTANEOUSLY---a submarine commander's dream--with torpedoes from its bow and stern tubes and SAVED the Bismarck----but the U-556 had already used all of its torpedoes.
From wikipedia:
"Around 19:50, Wohlfahrt saw the battlecruiser HMS Renown and the aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal coming out of the mist at high speed. He recorded in his log, "Enemy bows on, 10 degrees to starboard, without destroyers, without zigzagging," but without any torpedoes, could only submerge and avoid them. Wohlfahrt saw activity on Ark Royal's flight deck, which transpired to be the launching of the second, fatal attack on Bismarck. At 20:39, Wohlfahrt surfaced and transmitted, "Enemy in view, a battleship, an aircraft carrier, course 115, enemy is proceeding at high speed. Position 48° 20' N, 16° 20' W." Renown's and Ark Royal's course toward Bismarck coincided almost exactly with his own; he proceeded on the surface at full speed behind them"
In William L. Shirer's book, which I had as a kid, he said as the Bismarck was sinking, the British warships began rescuing the Bismarck's crew---but broke off the rescue when a U-boat periscope was sighted. More irony, the periscope was from U-556 which had no torpedoes. The British warships broke off their rescue of the Bismarck's crew to escape an unarmed U-boat. Consequently, many of the Bismarck's crew perished.
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