Remake/Reboot?

I've been thinking about this off and on since I read your post. I think the Battle of the Bulge has been covered fairly well. The most dramatic parts, for non-history buffs occurred in the defense of Bastogne, and that has been covered thoroughly by a couple of movies and the mini-series Band of Brothers.

What has not been covered has been the Battle of the Philippine Sea. For dramatic tension there is the threat to MacArthur's landing force on Luzon. For history it was the largest naval battle ever fought in terms of ocean area, the number of ships involved, and the number of men. For action there was the gallant stand and ordeal of Taffy 3, the destroyers and escort carriers that took on the Yamato.

It would need to be a mini-series, of course, and writing it would be a challenge. At least one, and better two one hour episodes would need to be devoted to explaining the background. Describing the forces would also take time. There were over 300 American warships involved and more than 67 Japanese. The American fleet included 8 fleet carriers, 8 light carriers, 18 escort carriers, and 12 battleships. Several of the battleships had been sunk or seriously damaged at Pearl Harbor in 1941 and then refloated and refitted.

The Japanese laid out a complex plan to trick Admiral Halsey and trap the support fleet in Leyte Gulf. Unfortunately for them, they succeeded, but by this time in the war they could not do anything right. Ah, it would be beautiful to see on the screen. Admiral Halsey is royally duped, but it doesn't matter. The US Navy has become so powerful by this time that we kill, and kill, and kill until we almost run out of targets.

The best diplomat I know is a fully charged phaser bank.

mini series...that's the answer.




Why can't you wretched prey creatures understand that the Universe doesn't owe you anything!?

you know they always talk about Bastongne, but I read an interesting book a while back about the bulge and he was saying the real story was not bastongne itself, but all the small little battles in front of bastongne when the germans first came in that was the real hero story. little villages where the germans rolled in and there were only small units of americans and how they held on. it described german units full of young kids, hyped up who would just charge forward and get mowed down.

BOTB was fantasic but it didn't touch much on the bulge did it?

I recently re-watched a bridge too far and I remember a review back then which called it a bridge too long, and seeing it again, wow, I could not believe it, thinking this movie would NEVER be made today. talk about long, they must have had like 15 scenes of minor little things with each having one big star in it. Elliot gould running around with a cigar in his mouth acting like patton while building a bridge! robert redford paddling across a river yelling, "hail mary, mother of grace!" over and over again. Gene hackman doing his best polish accent. etc etc

I swear their must have been like 23 major hollywood stars in that movie, imagine trying to do this today?

even though the bulge has been covered in stuff we like and see all the time, like the documentaries and the HBO series. if they can do a big budget movie like fury just about one tank guy and his crew I think hollywood can to a big budget movie about the bulge. featuring somebody playing hitler and his generals in the beginning, etc and a great actor playing piper and a great actor playing the general who said "Nuts!" etc. why not?