Last weekend’s Sunday Telegraph had a bit of a scoop which probably confirmed the worst suspicions of some Dam Buster film enthusiasts. Sir David Frost, who is producing the new film with Peter Jackson, told the newspaper’s diary writer, Mandrake, that they had reached a compromise on the name of Guy Gibson’s dog. The remake is unlikely to appear before 2011, and it will be called Nidge.
In the course of writing this blog I have spent a lot of time over the last six months reading various bulletin boards and discussion forums. In almost every thread that has been started about the remake of The Dam Busters someone raises the name of the dog within the first ten posts. A range of ‘jobsworths’ and ‘do-gooders’ are cited as being the people who won’t allow the original name to be used, with ‘the PC Brigade’ being the favourite culprit.
Well, if the decision has been made, it’s made. Time for everyone to move on, I think.
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Sir, Never mind about the dogs’ name, what is the code word for success of the breaching of the dam going to be. This is written in history as “Nigger” and cannot be changed.