Category Archives: Dambusters remake
Blink and you’ll miss it
My good friend Dom Howard kindly recorded Stephen Fry’s very brief reference to the Dambusters remake on The One Show on BBC1 last night. Receiving an award for “Most Consistent Attempt to Remake a Film” the great man revealed that he will … Continue reading
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The Dam Busters – Heffer’s view
If you watched The Dam Busters earlier today on ITV4, and are now paying your first visit to this blog, welcome. You may be searching for more information about the remake of the film, which is in the hands of … Continue reading
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Dambusters remake: quiet progress
Pic: Natasha Baucas Sources tell us that some quiet progress is being made on filming the remake of The Dam Busters. (A brief recap for those not familiar with the project. This story has been going on since 2006, when … Continue reading
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It’s true, yes it is, it’s true*
When I noted, three posts ago, that a Second World War petrol bowser had recently been imported into New Zealand as a prop for the forthcoming Dambusters remake, I didn’t make the connection with the vehicle which had been sold … Continue reading
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Keep on trucking
Pic: Dominion Post It may not look much, but the arrival of a filthy Second World War truck into a New Zealand port is the first bit of news about the Dambusters remake that we have had for months. Apparently … Continue reading
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Dambusters remake: no news
If you’ve come to this page today after watching the C4 documentary, and then searching the web for information about the remake of the 1955 film The Dam Busters – the answer is there is no news. The film project is … Continue reading
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Acceptable in the 50s
The sigh which Stephen Fry gave live on radio on Friday 3 June as he was interviewed by Simon Mayo was clearly audible. Mayo read out a question about the Dambusters remake, sent in by a listener: ‘Is the dog … Continue reading
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Fry speaks: how Jackson took on The Dam Busters
The nation’s most loved polymath, Stephen Fry, was this week’s guest on Simon Mayo and Mark Kermode’s film review sequence on Radio 5. You can download this as a podcast from the BBC website. For about 25 minutes he discussed … Continue reading
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Do keep up, dear
Once upon a time the Hollywood magazine Variety was regarded as the voice of show business, regularly breaking dozens of stories in a famously sensationalist style which used a language all its own: Now, it seems, it employs ‘reporters’ who … Continue reading
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Hello, good evening and welcome
If this is your first visit to the only Dambusters blog on the interwebnet, you are very welcome. You may well have arrived here after watching the Channel 4 documentary on Monday 2 May, in which modern engineers rebuilt a … Continue reading
