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Re: If you could make a movie....
Posted by Steve T on Thu Jan 01, 2004 06:27:55 PM
In reply top If you could make a movie.... posted by Scott WRG Editor on Tue Dec 30, 2003 06:13:15 PM
Hi Scott--
Good question. (Several WIXers recently had a discussion like this off-board actually; of course all of us suffer from the same condition, vivid imaginations/drab finances!)
At one time I'd have cited the Tuskegee story as the best not-yet-filmed aviation topic; then the HBO cable movie came out. (Anyone know whether that film was a continuation of the never-finished Lucasfilm Tuskegee project called "Red Tails", or an entirely separate venture, BTW?)
What would I make now? Three possibilities at least come to mind:
--a film treatment of the Spencer Dunmore novel "Ace", about a Luftwaffe fighter pilot (sort of "The Blue Max" set one world war later)
--a film adaptation of the remarkable story of the all-female Soviet fighter regiments in the "Great Patriotic War"; I picture the title "Heroines" in Cyrillic-looking lettering, posters styled after those cool Art Decoish labour graphics, new-build Yak-3s and Fw190s all over the place in the film...And the pilots would be waaaay better-looking than those in most war movies...!
--a film surrounding the 1949 Cleveland National Air Races. Cleland's grassroots Corsair team versus the megabuck Cochran/Odom Mustang squad. Of course it would be necessary to dig up and reconstitute F2G #94 from under that runway extension in Ohio...and put together a new-build P-51C "Beguine" racer...Amid the fierce competition and politicking there'd even be room in the plot for a romance--if strictly necessary! :-)
Cheers
Steve