Hopefully WARBIRDS turns out to be halfway decent and we can get him back on a major film again in the near future. While McTiernan is certainly down from his studio directing gigs from a decade ago, it is great to see that he is getting back into the mix. Warbirds may refer to: Warbird, any vintage military aircraft now operated by civilian organizations and individuals or historic arms of military forces. The director also mentioned a film he is being asked to rewrite and possibly direct in January that the producers want Arnold Schwarzenegger to star in buy McTiernan says he is against Arnold in the role and is trying to convince them to not cast him. Both are looking to revitalize their stalled careers and this may be a good way to get going again. McTiernan and Travolta worked together previously on the military thriller BASIC so this would serve a reunion of sorts for them. When asked about the likelihood that WARBIRDS will get made, McTiernan says he has been taking two hour meetings about the film and that they are already looking at CGI firms to handle the special effects since "it's sort of the dog-fighting movie of all time they couldn't make when they had the real airplanes because it's too damn dangerous." McTiernan says that he is still negotiating a salary but has been offered $1 million for the gig. The movie has signed John Travolta to the lead with offers apparently out to Queen Latifah and Johnny Knoxville for supporting parts. In a strange way of hearing news, McTiernan's recent appearance in a Wyoming bankruptcy court may have revealed what other films he may be involved with first.ĭuring an attempt to adjust some financial verdicts against him, McTiernan was asked about his upcoming work which includes three scripts he has apparently sold, potential work on RED SQUAD, and news that he is set to direct the film WARBIRDS for Hannibal Pictures. It’s possible to coast through thanks to residual warm feelings about the premise, but really this needs to be rewritten by someone who isn’t primarily an effects man, and remade on a humongous budget with an A-list female cast zooming into action against really impressive monsters.Since leaving prison, we have heard that director John McTiernan may helm the movie RED SQUAD but not much else has been heard. The creatures look like turtles with wings instead of shells and flap like angry eagles rather than glide like prehistoric flying saurs – they don’t much resemble pterodactyls (who got their own SciFi premiere a while back) or pteranodons and might as well be dragons.Īs usual, the effects are more enthusiastic than impressive – the monsters and the planes are equally fakey, and their clashes look like a rough draft for scenes which need about a dozen more computer passes before they’re up to snuff. The cute kid on her first mission (Faust) gets creamed, which prompts the guy (Caleb Michaelson) she had a crush on to die shooting at a couple of the beasts (‘this is for you, Hoodsie’). The Yanks have to cannibalise Japanese planes to get back in the air, while coping with the smarmily scheming enemy commander (Tohoru Masamune), but also take to the skies in borrowed Zeros to dogfight with a flock of monsters. The no-name ladies (Jamie Elle Mann, Lucy Faust, Shauna Rappold, Gizza Elizondo) get into ‘40s hairdos and red, red lipstick and attempt snappy WWII patter (‘I promised myself I’d die happy in Clark Gable’s bed and I ain’t breakin’ that promise’), but this doesn’t manage the standard of pastiche found in that admirable, if ropey ‘80s effort Zone Troopers. Writer-director Kevin Gendreau gets points for trying to spice up the SciFi grunts-vs-CGIbeast format with a period setting, even if this isn’t in the lunatic league of the conquistators-vs-tyrannosaur Aztec Rex. ![]() ![]() Here, the concept is even higher as the all-female crew of a US plane ferrying an officer (Brian Krause) and his vital-to-the-war-effort mystery cargo (hint – it makes a geiger counter stutter) are downed on an atoll where a Japanese unit has already been attacked by flying dinosaurs that hatch out of a stash of ancient eggs. This SciFi Channel programmer was probably inspired by DC Comics’ relishably weird war series ‘The War That Time Forgot’, in which GIs clashed with dinosaurs on a Pacific island lost world during World War II.
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