KG_Cloghaun
08-30-2010, 07:35 PM
Warner Bros. Planning 3D Battle of Midway Film
Source: Deadline (http://www.deadline.com/2010/08/warner-bros-plots-3d-battle-of-midway-pic-with-the-pacifics-bruce-c-mckenna/)
August 29, 2010
Warner Bros.http://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/mag-glass_10x10.gif (http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=69346#) has bought Bruce C. McKenna ("The Pacific," "Band of Brothers") World War II pitch The Battle of Midway, reports Deadline.
The 3D film would be about the June 4-6, 1942, turning point of the war. The site adds that McKenna is expected to turn in a script in eight weeks for the film, which may carry a price tag of around $200 million.
Akiva Goldsman's Weed Road will produce the film.
The Battle of Midway was previously turned into a 1942 film, directed by John Ford, and a 1976 version that starred Charlton Heston, Henry Fonda, James Coburn and Hal Holbrook.
Source: Deadline (http://www.deadline.com/2010/08/warner-bros-plots-3d-battle-of-midway-pic-with-the-pacifics-bruce-c-mckenna/)
August 29, 2010
Warner Bros.http://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/mag-glass_10x10.gif (http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=69346#) has bought Bruce C. McKenna ("The Pacific," "Band of Brothers") World War II pitch The Battle of Midway, reports Deadline.
The 3D film would be about the June 4-6, 1942, turning point of the war. The site adds that McKenna is expected to turn in a script in eight weeks for the film, which may carry a price tag of around $200 million.
Akiva Goldsman's Weed Road will produce the film.
The Battle of Midway was previously turned into a 1942 film, directed by John Ford, and a 1976 version that starred Charlton Heston, Henry Fonda, James Coburn and Hal Holbrook.