""The Lord of the Rings" and "King Kong" director Peter Jackson has confirmed he will produce a remake of the classic 1954 British war film "The Dam Busters" reports Screen Daily.

"King Kong" animator Christian Rivers will be sitting in the director's chair, and Jackson said it would be "as authentic as possible and as close to the spirit of the original as possible".

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The 1954 film told the true story of how Britain developed bouncing bombs to destroy German dams in World War II. Michael Redgrave starred as Barnes Wallis, who developed the bomb, and Richard Todd as Wing Commander Guy Gibson, who led the RAF bombing mission.

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The remake is set to use details of the bombing mission which were still classified at the time the original film was made by director Michael Anderson. The project is due to start filming next year, with a budget of $30-40m."

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Sounds decent.

A fav... They used skippiing stones(balls) to solve one problem.. release trajectory.. Also they used 'parallex' to precisely distance the release.. The British can be agile scientists, but I'm told they lost their edge/incentive to create in the 50's, when tax rates were 85%...
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