What do you think about DAS BOOT Director Wolfgang Petersen?
I think he's great! All his films were great!
Spike
Even Air Force One...?!
But I'm speaking from ignorance here: I've only seen his American movies like Outbreak and In The Line of Fire - what are the German ones like?
i kinda liked air force one. the part at the end when he's fighting with gary oldman and he ties that seatbelt thing around his neck and is all like "get off my plane bitch"- that shit was bad.
i wish harrison ford was our president. he can fly planes too.
i don't know if he is that great but the last scene of das boot is pretty amazing.
wolfgang also did "The Perfect Storm" ...which, i dont know about anyone else, but fucking sucked. i loved Das Boot though. i havent seen any other of his german films, unfortunately.. i should...screw him now though. screw him along with fucking ridley scott!
Petersen didn't do lots of german cinema films. One of them was the TV-film SMOG, then came DAS BOOT, and after this THE NEVERENDING STORY, which was shot in Englisch, but produced by Germans. After this his films were all English. But he did a lot of TATORT-Episodes.
NEVERENDING STORY is the most memorable film from my childhood
yeah, he didn´t do much german films, the best TATORT ever with Nastassja Kinski. i watched 10 mins of the perfect storm, CRAP! why does he always make this action-bullshit?air force one was shit, too, though han solo was in it.
WOLFGANG PETERSEN TEAMS WITH "THE BACHELOR" PRODUCER FOR A REMAKE OF "THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE”
Source: Variety
Persisting Hollywood’s “remake” trend, producer/director WOLFGANG PETERSEN ('The Perfect Storm,' 'Air Force One' and the upcoming WB’s epic 'Troy') has turned his attention to produce a remake of the 1972 disaster film "THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE.”
"With the incredible advances in effects technology, even since (2000's) 'The Perfect Storm,' the time is right for a remake of 'The Poseidon Adventure,' " Petersen said in Variety. “We can make this a very scary movie … and a lot of fun."
Petersen, who is not expected to direct the disaster pic, will team up with the unlikely producing partner MIKE FLEISS, who’s probably best known for executive producing and creating the ABC’s hit “The Bachelor.” Fleiss got his first feature producing credit on New Line's remake of "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre."
"I grew up in the era of the disaster film, but none of them was as cool as this one," said Fleiss in Variety. "We were both pursuing the feature rights, and luckily, they were with Warner Bros., and that is where my deal is and where Wolfgang has his deal."
Based on a Paul Gallico novel, “Poseidon” tells the story of a capsized ship whose survivors try to make their way back up through the hull to the surface. The classic film which starred Gene Hackman, Shelley Winters, Roddy McDowall and Ernest Borgnine, is generally considered to have launched a thousand disaster spectacles.
fuckin remakes
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*sigh.
Petersen's got his ups and downs. Nothing he's done since DAS BOOT has really compared but he's pretty tight when it comes to suspense.
PERFECT STORM did suck though.
But I'm psyched about TROY.
http://www.thedigitalbits.com/mytwocentsa86.html#boot
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And the Das Boot: The Original Uncut Version will be a 2-disc set featuring the original mini-series version that was produced for German TV broadcast in 1981 (running time: 293 minutes). The video will be anamorphic widescreen, with audio in English and German Dolby Digital (note that you'll get the restored original stereo audio as well as a newly created 5.1 mix - in GERMAN we hope). A behind-the-scenes featurette is also included. Can't WAIT for this!
But a big deal, Ravi, but it was already posted here: http://www.xixax.com/viewtopic.php?p=131114#131114
Wolfgang Petersen Takes a Bullitt for WB
Source: Variety
Troy director Wolfgang Petersen and Warner Bros. are reloading Bullitt, reports Variety. The studio will remake the 1968 Steve McQueen drama with Petersen directing.
The crime caper, centered on tough-guy detective Frank Bullitt, will be contemporized by Cynthia Mort. The original drama was based on the Robert L. Pike novel "Mute Witness," but the remake isn't. Petersen sparked more to the character than to the original storyline.
"Bullitt" is not about "remaking a film or repeating a plot, it is about reviving a great character," Petersen told the trade. "Frank Bullitt is a cool, no-nonsense man who doesn't compromise. Bullitt walks his own path and his pursuit of the truth is unrelenting."
just watched Das Boot (directors cut 3 1/2 hour version tonite) and boy was it......LONG! actually it was pretty good, and this is coming from someone who has NEVER had an interest in submarine movies, (not seen crimson tide, hunt for red october, u571, etc.) but maybe its time to lift my ban (but not my ban on bon jovi movies). the camerawork inside the sub was really good/lively and made you feel the claustrophobia of being in there. all the actors were good and i liked the pacing and that it wasnt all cutout characters (the drunk, the crazy guy, the weenie, etc.) that are easily identifiable in a movie that moves from mounting plot point A to B, it just sort of 'was.' which, i can understand would be the case if it was originally a 6 hour miniseries. SPOILER the ending killed me. to go through all that for THAT! i was so pissed because you just know thats the reason he made the movie. SPOILER END the fact that they made this for $15 mil is incredible, the only places it seemed less than 100% were whenever anybody went out on the dock and got water splashed on them. so, if you havent seen this, RECOMMENDED.
Quote from: themodernage02this is coming from someone who has NEVER had an interest in submarine movies, (not seen crimson tide, hunt for red october, u571, etc.) but maybe its time to lift my ban (but not my ban on bon jovi movies).
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..i would recomend this....its got savy actors [bruce greenwood, olivia williams, jason fleming].......and it was written by darren arophuckingnofsky who is a prodigy.........this is good sh*t....
"U571 meets Poltergeist?!" I'm in!
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i guess i lied. i saw BELOW last year and enjoyed it.
also: had passes to K19: THE WIDOWMAKER, and went despite having made fun of the trailers, because it was free and i was bored. :( other than that i've seen NO SUB MOVIES!
Wolfgang Petersen to Direct The Grays
Source: Unknown Country
Author Whitley Strieber's official website has revealed that Wolfgang Petersen (Troy, The Perfect Storm, Outbreak) will direct The Grays, based on the Strieber's sci-fi novel. Here is how the publisher, Tor Books, describes the book:
A triumvirate of Grays, known as the Three Thieves, has occupied a small Kentucky town for decades--abducting its residents and manipulating fates and bloodlines in hopes of creating an ultra-intelligent human being. Nine-year-old Conner Callahan will face the ultimate terror as he struggles to understand who he has been bred to be and what he must do to save humanity.
Though the Grays have slowly begun to make themselves known, Colonel Michael Wilkes, the head of a select group of government and military officials that have been monitoring the aliens, will do anything in his power to keep them a secret. Wilkes will set in motion a sinister plan to ensure the survival of humanity, but at what cost?
The fate of the human race lies with one woman, Lauren Glass. Her uncanny ability to communicate with the aliens and her relationship with the last remaining captive gray may be the only way to save humankind.
Filming should start in the next few months. The earliest possible release date is summer 2008, with the summer of 2009 more likely.
Quote from: MacGuffin on September 07, 2007, 08:14:03 PM
Nine-year-old Conner Callahan will face the ultimate terror as he struggles to understand who he has been bred to be and what he must do to save humanity.
Colonel Michael Wilkes will set in motion a sinister plan to ensure the survival of humanity, but at what cost?
The fate of the human race lies with one woman, Lauren Glass. Her uncanny ability to communicate with the aliens and her relationship with the last remaining captive gray may be the only way to save humankind.
after all that, i hope humanity loses.