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May 29, 2017 - 10:14 AM
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dragon53
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MONDAY, MAY 29
For Memorial Day this is a summary of some war movies and tv miniseries underway.
DUNKIRK---Christopher Nolan (THE DARK KNIGHT) movie about the evacuation of Allied troops across the English Channel during the Nazi conquest of France. Tom Hardy and Kenneth Branagh star.
Trailer link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cmgiys2n1o
THE MIGHTY EIGHTH---HBO/Tom Hanks/Steven Spielberg miniseries underway about the Eighth Air Force's bombing raids against Nazi forces in World War II.
MIDWAY---Roland Emmerich (INDEPENDENCE DAY) will direct this World War II movie about the naval battle that was the turning point in the war in the Pacific.
BATTLE OF BRITAIN---Ridley Scott will direct this "passion project" World War II movie about the pivotal air battle between the RAF and the Luftwaffe before the planned Nazi invasion of England.
GREYHOUND---Tom Hanks is the star/writer of this Sony Pictures movie based on the CS Forester World War II novel THE GOOD SHEPHERD.
LIBERTY ROAD---movie underway based on the book THE BATTERED BASTARDS OF BASTOGNE during the Battle of the Bulge.
TOP GUN 2---Tom Cruise confirmed the sequel will probably start filming in 2018. Val Kilmer expressed an interest in returning as Iceman. The plot supposedly concerns the relevance of manned jet fighters in the drone era.
HUE 1968---Michael Mann (MIAMI VICE, HEAT) tv miniseries based on the Vietnam War book HUE 1968 by Mark Bowden (BLACK HAWK DOWN).
THE LAST FULL MEASURE---Vietnam War movie about Medal of Honor recipient Airman William H. Pitsenbarger. Grant Gustin (THE FLASH), Sebastian Stan (CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER), Ed Harris (WESTWORLD), Christopher Plummer (STAR TREK VI: THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY) and Samuel L. Jackson (KONG: SKULL ISLAND) star
THE GARBO NETWORK---Oscar Isaac (STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS) stars in this World War II movie about Juan Pujol Garcia ("Garbo"), MI5's top double agent who convinced Adolf Hitler that the D-Day invasion was going to be at the Pas de Calais instead of Normandy.
ICE STATION ZEBRA---long-gestating remake of the 1968 movie based on the Alistair MacLean novel that starred Rock Hudson, Patrick McGoohan and Ernest Borgnine. Christopher McQuarrie (MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE-ROGUE NATION) is no longer involved as the remake's writer/director.
THE WAR OF THE WORLDS---BBC three-part miniseries underway based on the classic 1898 HG Wells novel about a Martian invasion of England. Peter Hartness (DOCTOR WHO) is the writer.
OVERLORD---JJ Abrams World War II movie in which US paratroopers land in Normandy on D-Day and encounter supernatural forces in a French village.
SALT OF THE SEA---movie underway based on the World War II historical novel about the
sinking of the German military transport ship MV Wilhelm Gustloff by a Soviet submarine in which about 9,400 died---the largest loss in a single ship sinking in history and six time more than died in the sinking of the Titanic.
NO BETTER PLACE TO DIE---World War II movie underway about 82nd Airborne Division paratroopers who must hold a vital bridge on the Merderet River during D-Day. Dale Dye (SAVING PRIVATE RYAN) is the writer/director.
WAR PARTY---Tom Hardy star in this movie about a highly-decorated SEAL. Ridley Scott is the producer. Netflix is in negotiations to acquire it.
HUNTER KILLER---movie underway about the captain of a Navy nuclear submarine who transports a SEAL team to prevent World War III by rescuing the Russian president from a rogue Russian general. Gerard Butler and Gary Oldman star.
THE WALL---movie about two US snipers who are pinned down behind a wall by an Iraqi sniper. Aaron Taylor-Johnson (GODZILLA) stars. Doug Liman (THE BOURNE IDENTITY) is the director.
THE CATCHER WAS A SPY---Paul Rudd (ANT-MAN) star in this biomovie about baseball player Moe Berg, who was also a spy for the OSS in World War II. Casey Stengel said Berg was, "The strangest man to ever play baseball."
THE 12TH MAN---World War II movie about the sole survivor of a 12-man Norwegian Resistance team and its failed mission to destroy a German air traffic control tower.
HHhH---movie about Operation Anthropoid in which two British-trained Czech commandos assassinate SS leader Reinhard Heydrich. Jason Clarke (ZERO DARK THIRTY) and Rosamund Pike (GONE GIRL) star.
THE BASE---movie underway in which military prisoners defend their prison from attacking terrorists and discover the prison is a cover for a drone control facility.
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