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May 27, 2020 - 9:56 AM
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dragon53
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WEDNESDAY, MAY 27
SPACEX---the EDGE OF TOMORROW team of Tom Cruise and director Doug Liman will reunite for the untitled outer space movie which involves Elon Musk's SpaceX and the International Space Station.
AVATAR 2---producer Joe Landau commented on the sequel's plot, "This is the story of the Sully family and what one does to keep their family together. Jake and Neytiri have a family in this movie, they are forced to leave their home, they go out and explore the different regions of Pandora, including spending quite a bit of time on the water, around the water, in the water. I think, why do people turn to entertainment today, more so than ever? I think it's to escape, to escape the world we're in, to escape the other pressures they have in their lives."
JUSTICE LEAGUE SNYDER CUT---Zack Snyder posted a photo of villain Darkseid from the HBO Max movie.
PLANET OF THE APES---director Wes Ball said the sequel could start production soon, and they are, "continuing to move forward" with the script. He added the sequel, "could actually be in virtual production relatively soon because it’s largely a CG movie."
THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO---Amazon Studios reboot tv series underway based on the Lisbeth Salamander novels. The tv series is not a sequel to the movies, but will have Salamander in a new setting with new characters.
STAR TREK: ENTERPRISE---on the 15th anniversary of the series finale, "These Are The Voyages", showrunner Brannon Braga said the finale, “was a kind of a slap in the face to the ENTERPRISE actors”. Co-star Connor Trinneer added, “One’s feelings about the finale were not just bittersweet, they were just bitter. We had the plug pulled out from us, and we felt it was far too soon.”
DARK TOWER---showrunner Glen Mazzara commented on the shelved Amazon tv series based on the Stephen King novels, “When we realized that the franchise was not viable, or not going to continue, we decided we could now lay out the entire epic. Now we had a choice: do we go back and start with The Gunslinger? Do you start and tell the story in a linear way and then interrupt that narrative and have this large cutaway in your season 4 or season 5 to Wizard and Glass? That’s a viable option.”
He added, “If season 1 ended with the death of Susan…in Wizard and Glass very quickly you go from the death of Susan to the death of Gabrielle, [Roland’s] mother. I felt that I needed a season to give me real estate so that Gabrielle’s death didn’t step on Susan’s and that it felt like an escalation. Roland fails to save Susan, but he actually shoots and kills his mother. In the book, Gabrielle is not really a detailed character in a way that, say, Susan is…Gabrielle is really not fleshed out. She just doesn’t have as many pages attributed to her. I love that character. The actress we had for her was Elaine Cassidy, a fantastic Irish actress, and she did a really great job. So for season 2…[we were] maybe going to use the shapeshifter story [from Wind Through the Keyhole] as part of season 2 and get to the death of Gabrielle and either the fall of Gilead there or the fall of Gilead would be the season three premiere.”
SPAWN---producer Jason Blum hinted about a big development on the movie, "...it is a very active development. I wanna make the movie so badly, I wouldn’t put that past myself...I’ve actually been talking to other people about it, but there’s been a seismic event on SPAWN.”
AMERICAN HORROR STORY---FX is developing a spinoff anthology series with each episode being a different ghost story.
FRAGGLE ROCK---Apple TV+ is developing a new reboot series.
TRIVIA---May 27, 2020 is the 79th anniversary of the sinking of the German battleship Bismarck in World War II.
In World War II, British actor Esmond Knight was a gunnery officer on the new battleship HMS Prince of Wales when it accompanied the battle cruiser HMS Hood as they intercepted the Bismarck on its maiden combat voyage in the Denmark Strait.
Only minutes after the Battle of the Denmark Strait began, Knight saw the Bismarck sink the Hood with only three survivors out of its crew of 1.418. Knight said, ". . . I remember listening for it and thinking it would be a most tremendous explosion, but I don't remember hearing an explosion at all." Many of the battleship's crew heard little or nothing from the Hood exploding, perhaps due to the Prince of Wales's own cannons and machinery. The Bismarck then directed its fire against the Prince of Wales. In the resulting hits, Knight was wounded and lost sight in both eyes. Two years later, medical treatment restored partial vision in his right eye.
In the 1960 movie SINK THE BISMARCK!, Knight played Capt. John Leach, commander of the Prince of Wales.
In ROBIN AND MARIAN, Knight, with his glass eye removed, played the old man who conversed with Robin Hood (Sean Connery) and then defied King Richard I (Richard Harris).
In World War II, actor Esmond Knight was a gunnery officer on the battleship HMS Prince of Wales when it and the battle cruiser HMS Hood dueled with the battleship Bismarck. Knight was blinded when the Prince of Wales was hit by fire from the Bismarck. In the movie SINK THE BISMARCK!, Knight played Capt. John Leach, commander of the Prince of Wales.
In ROBIN AND MARIAN, Knight, with his glass eye removed, played the old man who conversed with Robin Hood (Sean Connery) and then defied King Richard I (Richard Harris).
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May 27, 2020 - 12:58 PM
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johnjohnson
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TRIVIA---May 27, 2020 is the 79th anniversary of the sinking of the German battleship Bismarck in World War II.
In World War II, British actor Esmond Knight was a gunnery officer on the new battleship HMS Prince of Wales when it accompanied the battle cruiser HMS Hood as they intercepted the Bismarck on its maiden combat voyage in the Denmark Strait.
Only minutes after the Battle of the Denmark Strait began, Knight saw the Bismarck sink the Hood with only three survivors out of its crew of 1.418. Knight said, ". . . I remember listening for it and thinking it would be a most tremendous explosion, but I don't remember hearing an explosion at all." Many of the battleship's crew heard little or nothing from the Hood exploding, perhaps due to the Prince of Wales's own cannons and machinery. The Bismarck then directed its fire against the Prince of Wales. In the resulting hits, Knight was wounded and lost sight in both eyes. Two years later, medical treatment restored partial vision in his right eye.
In the 1960 movie SINK THE BISMARCK!, Knight played Capt. John Leach, commander of the Prince of Wales.
In ROBIN AND MARIAN, Knight, with his glass eye removed, played the old man who conversed with Robin Hood (Sean Connery) and then defied King Richard I (Richard Harris).
In World War II, actor Esmond Knight was a gunnery officer on the battleship HMS Prince of Wales when it and the battle cruiser HMS Hood dueled with the battleship Bismarck. Knight was blinded when the Prince of Wales was hit by fire from the Bismarck. In the movie SINK THE BISMARCK!, Knight played Capt. John Leach, commander of the Prince of Wales.
One of my favourite British war films.
https://eurekavideo.co.uk/movie/sink-the-bismarck/
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May 27, 2020 - 1:54 PM
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Grecchus
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Thetan Inside.
Dragon, at the end of Bismarck, there's a scene where Michael Hordern takes a step forward and the look on his face is one never to be forgotten. Just as when Ostfriesland went down via Billy Mitchell's demonstration that big ships can be sunk by aircraft bombing, the officer corps lower their heads and shed a tear. When HMS Kelly (K class destroyer) was sunk off Crete in WWII, Lord Louis Mountbatten as acting captain, gave the order to abandon ship and went in the water with his men. He asked them to give her a cheer as she went down. She was sent to the bottom by dive bombing German Stukas. HMS Kashmir was also sunk by the same method at the same time.
Edit: Dr Robert Ballard's book about the discovery of the sunken wreck of the Bismarck is one I'd recommend. It has an account of the Battle Of the Denmark Strait. Hood's fate was predictable. All you had to do was look back to Jutland to see what happened specifically to battle cruisers, not dreatnought battleships. Dreadnought battleships had sufficient armour protection to absorb direct hits from long range, plunging shell fire. The decks on battle cruisers were too lightly armoured, if at all. Their decks were made of wood, which was asking for trouble. Hood had been outfitted between the wars, but it was never going to be good enough. Putting her up against Bismarck was a bad idea. When she blew up, eye-witness accounts say one of her forward guns actually fired a salvo. It is believed the gun might have been activated by a fault of some kind although, IMO, it could very well have been the gun crew discharging it as a matter of course. Gun turrets with dual barrels never fired both of them at the same time. One was fired and subsequent spotting determined if the elevation on the other needed to be tweaked up or down to increase or decrease the fall of shot.
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Good stat dragon.
I had a great uncle who served/spent time on the Hood briefly but had been reassigned to another ship. All war survivors tell you that you need a little luck to come out the other side.
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Ive got that, above us the waves (tirpitz) and In which we serve to watch in my recordings library.
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Brilliant. There are a lot more documentaries available now than when i grew up. None, however, have surpassed the World at war, which should be required watching for every 15 year old.
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Jun 1, 2020 - 2:14 AM
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Thor
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SPACEX---the EDGE OF TOMORROW team of Tom Cruise and director Doug Liman will reunite for the untitled outer space movie which involves Elon Musk's SpaceX and the International Space Station.
This sounds very cool, especially now that the first successful SpaceX mission is a fact in real life. Cruise is almost always good at choosing visionary sci fi projects, and Liman is already historic with his redefinition of the action genre.
AVATAR 2---producer Joe Landau commented on the sequel's plot, "This is the story of the Sully family and what one does to keep their family together. Jake and Neytiri have a family in this movie, they are forced to leave their home, they go out and explore the different regions of Pandora, including spending quite a bit of time on the water, around the water, in the water. I think, why do people turn to entertainment today, more so than ever? I think it's to escape, to escape the world we're in, to escape the other pressures they have in their lives."
For as much as I wish Cameron didn't spend ALL his time on these sequels (we're still waiting for the BR remastering of THE ABYSS, for example), I'm still so much in love with the first film and its universe that I'm really, really looking forward to this.
PLANET OF THE APES---director Wes Ball said the sequel could start production soon, and they are, "continuing to move forward" with the script. He added the sequel, "could actually be in virtual production relatively soon because it’s largely a CG movie."
Hmmm...not too keen on this news. I like the three new POTA movies, but they've had a textural quality to them; this sounds basically like an animated movie from that comment.
FRAGGLE ROCK---Apple TV+ is developing a new reboot series.
Ha, ha. What? The original show is a BIG part of my childhood, so it is with some trepidation that I read this. But if they do it as well as with the DARK CRYSTAL series, I'm game to see what's it about; for nostalgia's sake.
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PLANET OF THE APES---director Wes Ball said the sequel could start production soon, and they are, "continuing to move forward" with the script. He added the sequel, "could actually be in virtual production relatively soon because it’s largely a CG movie."
That last quote should be the reasoning behind NOT making it.
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