Midway remake to start filming in September

[MigBuster 2,884]

The filmmaker behind massive hits like “Independence Day" and “The Patriot” has locked in a filming location for a remake of the 1976 movie “Midway," starring Charlton Heston and Henry Fonda, about the decisive 1942 naval battle that became a turning point for U.S. forces in the war in the Pacific.

After scouting filming locations around Pearl Harbor, German director Roland Emmerich settled on Oahu, and will begin filming the $100-million blockbuster next month at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickham. The same location was most recently used to film Cameron Crowe’s offensively awful film “Aloha,” starring Bradley Cooper and Emma Stone.

Woody Harrelson will be starring as the legendary Adm. Chester Nimitz, who, with the help of innovative U.S. codebreakers, foiled a Japanese ambush at Midway on June 4, 1942, less than a month after the conclusion of the Battle of the Coral Sea.

 

https://www.navytimes.com/off-duty/military-culture/2018/08/28/midway-remake-to-start-filming-next-month-on-oahu/?utm_campaign=Socialflow+AIR&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social

[Wrench 9,801]

Riiiiiiight.... "historically accurate" (as said in the link). As soon as I say a a women's name in the cast, I"m already suspect (pointing back to the original with Heston's sons Japanese girlfriend and that whole diversion)

So, lets see...

cgi YORKTOWN class carriers; pretty simple to do

cgi TBDs - pretty easy I guess. AND we might finally see them in a film. Same can be said for the Zeke, Vals, Kates, Dauntless and Wildcat (I'm not mentioning TBFs, as there were only 6 in the Real Battle). Good thing is, there are plenty of "original" or replica (IJN replica birds left over from Tora, Tora, Tora)

Not gonna pass real judgement until something substantial appears.

[CowboyTodd41 134]

Roland Emmerich may not have any clue how a story is supposed to work, but at least he can do disaster porn well. So at the very least it will look pretty. I don't really have high hopes though.

[ironroad 218]

With history comes the good, the bad, and the ambiguous.

I'm all for creative license and entertainment and even "what if" history (a lot of "history" that people think and feel they know is actually steeped in myth, propaganda, and legend).

But I'm not for taking something and making it entirely revisionist so it fits some type of "modern" feelings or social narrative.

Layman's terms: they better not f&^# this up!

[Mike Dora 171]

So the chap who produced “The Patriot”, which confused the 18th Century British Army with the Waffen SS in 1944, is going to produce an “historically accurate” film about Midway?

I can hardly wait.

[+daddyairplanes 10,137]

Historically accurate in 2018?

soooo the IJN is gonna be the protagonist, and Admiral Spruance played by an Inuit lesbian? (much filming in Canada per teh article)

[Wrench 9,801]

it you want to see it more as a "period piece", locate 1944's "Wing and a Prayer". Even though filmed on an Essex (some footage from YORKTOWNs -CV-10- shakedown cruise, isn't all that bad.

even THEY got it wrong (historically, those that know the Battle and the time frame will know what the glitch is. Once you've seen it, and haven't figured it out, I"ll tell you)

[+guuruu 5,909]

I only hope they don't touch 'Tora Tora Tora'. The best historical/war movie I've ever seen.

[fallenphoenix1986 603]

On 8/29/2018 at 2:54 AM, Mike Dora said:

So the chap who produced “The Patriot”, which confused the 18th Century British Army with the Waffen SS in 1944, is going to produce an “historically accurate” film about Midway?

I can hardly wait.

"The Patriot"?

Ah yes... "Braveheart II - USA edition"... 

 

I'm not holding my breath either... I fully expect historical accuracy to take a back seat and a sappy love story a La "Pearl Harbor" to be thrown in... Expect the action sequences will be up to scratch though.

 

[Wrench 9,801]

just thinking out loud...

I"ll work for scale as an advisor, if they want me. WW2 in the Pacific is more than passion for me.

[+Crusader 2,083]

Torpedo 8 for the win.... uha... ...

[Wrench 9,801]

I'd actually met George Gay and Richard Best at an airshow out at the Chino Museum. This was many years ago, of course. Super nice men, it was an honor to see real heroes in the flesh

[Wrench 9,801]

a video about them

 

[JosefK 911]

a) I wish instead to see more movies from the Persian Gulf War period.  I mean it wasn't easy flying into Iraq, and there were quite a few air-to-air kills.  But not a lot of movies about that...

b) I'm biased but I'd love to see a movie about the 1991 defeat of the BRAC & Whidbey Islanders for a Sound Environment (WISE) attempt to close NAS Whidbey Island.  Very close run thing.  There is also a lot of material for a co-ed sequel... ;-).

c) I sure hope this Midway remake doesn't... become a dud.   The original was to me timeless.  But in case the fact I'm suggesting different topics, I strongly suspect it might.  I mean when I watch "Pearl Harbor", I fast-forward to only the historical chapters which Hollywood got mostly right.

[RUSTYMORLEY 162]

On 9/4/2018 at 8:14 AM, guuruu said:

I only hope they don't touch 'Tora Tora Tora'. The best historical/war movie I've ever seen.

Without a doubt the best movie, and honestly the only real contender on this subject. Still watch it sometimes, and it gets me going when the Japanese flight chief gives the order to start engines early on the Sunday morning, and you see the pilot switch that big radial engine on. They were about to make history and change the perception of many Admirals who believed the the plane was inferior to the Battleship. On that day the carrier based plane became more important than the Battleship because it could now deliver a blow against an enemy who may well be more than a hundred miles away.!!!!

[+Typhoid 231]

They can only screw this one up