New Dunkirk movie to be made

This has upset a lot of historic aviation fans.

Film director Christopher Nolan is reportedly going to a shoot a scene for his new film ‘Dunkirk’ that involves crashing a $5m WW2 era plane into the ground.

http://www.filmindustrynetwork.biz/christopher-nolan-going-crash-5m-ww2-plane-ground/31276

https://indierevolver.com/2016/06/06/rumor-warner-brothers-purchased-a-5-million-ww2-plane-for-christopher-nolan-to-crash/

 

Just do not understand the need to make films from parts of history where ample newsreel etc must exist. Why not just make a decent documentary using film taken at the time with added supporting information as available.

 

Lets hope it's not that Fw 190. There wasn't any of them at Dunkirk

 

Filming to start on Ijsselmeer in Netherlands next week:

http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2016/06/urk-to-host-massive-dunkirk-film-crew-as-ijsselmeer-takes-centre-stage/

 

What is he wearing as shoulder titles ? AASH ?




He was wearing a Scottish regiments SD jacket in the earlier sequences but shouldn't the titles be A&SH ?


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/index.html

The stitched rather than one-piece Mills Equipment webbing continues to bother me. With the sort of budget this film has, getting the webbing right shouldn't be a problem.

 

Here is the first trailer for the film - done in typical Nolan style it gives very little away...
http://www.shortlist.com/entertainment/films/heres-the-first-trailer-for-christopher-nolans-dunkirk?

 

Why doesn't someone make a flim on a new subject - the rescues in the three weeks after Dunkirk?

 

I always thought that the nocturnal SOE flights into occupied France would make a superb basis for a film - yeah, they'd probably chuck in a French resistance love interest and we'd likely end up with Benedict Cumberbatch dangling from the landing gear of a Lysander a few feet above the channel, but I'd still watch it.

 

having said that its good that this period is still to the fore and i would imagine with Harry Styles in it younger people will go to watch it

 

I wrote to them MANY times in regard to this, even using the old, "My grandfather was there as part of theBEF and was wounded..." Hook in my correspondence. Their reply is below:

 

Yes....they are all "ooh...Ahhh...Harry this..Tom Hardy that...." They won't see it or understand it, 'they' don't even teach it as part of the educational curriculum in this country anymore.....

 

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A&SH - must have been 5th or 6th Bn, otherwise in the wrong place at the wrong time!

 

http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/defence/spitfires-and-messerschmitts-fly-over-daedalus-for-hollywood-blockbuster-dunkirk-1-7511512

 

I'm no expert, but isn't that Messerschmitt a bit squared off and overweight?

 

Interesting, didn't know anything about that variant.

The Spit looks pretty much as the models in my study.

Doubt that we'll be seeing any prolonged close-ups of either, so it shouldn't matter anyway. I'm beginning to feel somewhat more positive about his whole production - fingers crossed.

 

Please Staffsyeoman no more Cumberbatch, I am still trying to understand why everyone thinks he is a good actor he plays the same character whatever the production!
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I think Cumberbatch plays a brilliant Cumberbatch!!!!

 

Had been wondering about average age of the BEF in 1940, although many regulars and TA there were also the 21 year olds called up in the summer 1939.

To get an idea of age ranges, I downloaded casualty data from CWGC listing all British Army deaths in May and June 1940 in France, Belgium, Netherlands, Norway and Germany.
After removing those without a recorded age, there were a little over 12,000 casualties listed, the youngest were two 16-year-olds and the oldest was a 64-year-old - Brigadier Mainwaring Ravell Walsh.

The average age was 26.5 years-old, with a median of 25-years-old.