What fictional/historical epic should be filmed...
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A Winner Is You said:
Battle of Britain, so many stories that could be told and if used properly cgi could make for some great dogfights, if they resist the standard temptation to use video game physics.
I'm afraid that's already been done, back in 1969 
No CGI either, in fact they used nearly 100 real aircraft and radio-controlled models for the dogfights.
I wouldn't object to a decent TV series though, the extra running time could make us really feel the loss when one of the Few goes down in flames.
Edited by BritishBlitz87 on Saturday 1st August 14:31
Ever since I found our about it I've wondered why no ones made a film about the Battle of Castle Itter
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_for_Castle_It...
Basically US, Wehrmacht, French VIP POW's + Austrian resistance vs the SS, 2 days before the end of WW2 in Europe. I guess Hollywood won't film it because audiences would consider the cast of characters too implausible.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_for_Castle_It...
Basically US, Wehrmacht, French VIP POW's + Austrian resistance vs the SS, 2 days before the end of WW2 in Europe. I guess Hollywood won't film it because audiences would consider the cast of characters too implausible.
BritishBlitz87 said:
A Winner Is You said:
Battle of Britain, so many stories that could be told and if used properly cgi could make for some great dogfights, if they resist the standard temptation to use video game physics.
I'm afraid that's already been done, back in 1969 No CGI either, in fact they used nearly 100 real aircraft and radio-controlled models for the dogfights.
I wouldn't object to a decent TV series though, the extra running time could make us really feel the loss when one of the Few goes down in flames.
Edited by BritishBlitz87 on Saturday 1st August 14:31
Das Boot has made it to TV but yet to see it but that raise the Battle of the Atlantic as a massive topic but all of these would have a short run. And the Pacific has quite a lot. Not seen Band Of Brothers or Pacific yet.
BritishBlitz87 said:
I've always felt that the first Anglo-Afgan War would make a great TV series.
It's got it all really, humour, derring-do, betrayal, revenge, and a cast of colourful characters. The escape from Kabul would make some brilliant, if rather harrowing television, and the retribution campaign would be a good dose of fashionable moral ambiguity.
Not to mention the depressing incompetence of the British government. That, sadly, is one of the universal constants of our history
Told from which side?It's got it all really, humour, derring-do, betrayal, revenge, and a cast of colourful characters. The escape from Kabul would make some brilliant, if rather harrowing television, and the retribution campaign would be a good dose of fashionable moral ambiguity.
Not to mention the depressing incompetence of the British government. That, sadly, is one of the universal constants of our history
From the Afghan POV it was one more battle in the attempt to expel the invaders and reclaim their country.
Could be an interesting starting point.
300bhp/ton said:
irocfan said:
I think that Game of Thrones, Vikings, The Last Kingdom and Chernobyl (among many others) has shown that people have an appetite for good, well written historical (or historical with roots) drama, somehow however the take-up seems to have been patchy.
What (semi)historical event should be given the full big budget treatment?
I'd love to see The Song of Roland, the Siege of Vienna and Anabasis/The 10,000. Absolutely epic potential
Can GoT really be called "historical"? Surely it is epic fantasy.What (semi)historical event should be given the full big budget treatment?
I'd love to see The Song of Roland, the Siege of Vienna and Anabasis/The 10,000. Absolutely epic potential
Roofless Toothless said:
Rienzi, by Bulwer Lytton
Nostromo, by Joseph Conrad.
Titus Groan, by Mervyn Peake.
Heart of Darkness by Conrad would be a fantastic series or film, maybe a big budget one with an eccentric cast and director. Like, say, Apocalypse Now. Nostromo, by Joseph Conrad.
Titus Groan, by Mervyn Peake.
On BBC2 now. Mistah Kurtz, he dead. Trivia corner, the film whilst based loosely on Heart of Darkness was also influenced by Elliots 'The Hollow Men', a poem which starts with the line Mistah Kurtz he dead, which is a line from Heart of Darkness. Brando recites the poem in the film, thus linking all three works forever. Edited by biggbn on Saturday 1st August 23:20
Zirconia said:
Yeah I know, which is why do the real thing. I read the first book in Game of Thrones and decided it was cack, struggled to get to the end. Never saw the TV series and never will.
The books are hard going, 47 pages waffling on about what a character is wearing and what they had for dinner. TV series is far more enjoyable IMO.Anyway, apologies for the thread derailment - as you were...
I'd argue some suggestions on here are too niche or obscure to appeal to a wider TV audience.
When it comes to the historical genre, Filmmakers tend to stick to subjects most people will recognise. So we've seen war films about Dunkirk, D-Day, Midway, Pearl Harbour, or series like Band of Brothers.
Going more historical, they choose Henry VIII, Vikings, Romans, Robin Hood, King Arthur.
Personally I think there's a lot of scope for a proper long running series about the Egyptians. Enough source material available with plenty of scope of artistic licence, which is what you need if you're after an epic as opposed to a dreary docu-drama...
When it comes to the historical genre, Filmmakers tend to stick to subjects most people will recognise. So we've seen war films about Dunkirk, D-Day, Midway, Pearl Harbour, or series like Band of Brothers.
Going more historical, they choose Henry VIII, Vikings, Romans, Robin Hood, King Arthur.
Personally I think there's a lot of scope for a proper long running series about the Egyptians. Enough source material available with plenty of scope of artistic licence, which is what you need if you're after an epic as opposed to a dreary docu-drama...
In order to make good film/TV it would need to involve an interesting cast of characters, interesting events and also be fairly well known.
The story of Catherine the Great ticked all those boxes but the recent TV show unfortunately became a vanity project for a woman forty years too old for the role.
That is the example of the sort of story that could do well in today's times though. A strong female role, or multiple strong female roles, in a very exciting time in history.
The story of Catherine the Great ticked all those boxes but the recent TV show unfortunately became a vanity project for a woman forty years too old for the role.
That is the example of the sort of story that could do well in today's times though. A strong female role, or multiple strong female roles, in a very exciting time in history.
The life and times of Thomas Thistlewood would tick a few boxes today
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Thistlewood
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Thistlewood
I'd love to see a mini-series of 'Bomber', the Len Deighton story. Centers around some AVRO Lancaster crews and also the inhabitants of the German town they accidentally bomb as part of a 700-plane raid. Really brings home the horrors of war and the terrible losses on both sides by bringing personal tradgedies into play.
The breakup up of Yugoslavia, the Yugoslav Wars that followed for nearly 10 years, the war crimes including genocide and the battle for Kosovo to gain independence.
The Armenian Genocide which let to 1.5 million people being killed through forced labour, massacres and a death march into the Syrian desert. This ran alongside the Greek Genocide which saw up to 750,000 Greeks killed. Turkey denies either were genocide.
The Holocaust in Byelorussia, the attempt by the Nazis to march onto Moscow through the Soviet country and Operation Bagration which has been considered the single most successful military action of the entire war.
The Armenian Genocide which let to 1.5 million people being killed through forced labour, massacres and a death march into the Syrian desert. This ran alongside the Greek Genocide which saw up to 750,000 Greeks killed. Turkey denies either were genocide.
The Holocaust in Byelorussia, the attempt by the Nazis to march onto Moscow through the Soviet country and Operation Bagration which has been considered the single most successful military action of the entire war.
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