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Peter Jackson hits turbulence over dog named

Tags: Peter Jackson + Dam Busters + The Dam Busters + Dog + Nigger

CapitanPOP
Posted by CapitanPOP 3 years 2 months ago; via stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,...

Peter Jackson is already being dogged by one tricky aspect of the Dambusters story that he will turn into a $76 million film next year – a racial slur.

Wing Commander Guy Gibson, head of the British mission that destroyed German dams in World War II, had a dog called Nigger. The dog features in the 1951 book The Dam Busters and the 1954 film of the same name – both sources for Jackson's Dambusters to be shot in Wellington and Britain next year.

Jackson said his team would tread carefully over the name but had yet to decide what to...

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Peter Jackson to film Dam Busters

Tags: Peter Jackson + Dam Busters + The Dam Busters + Christian Rivers

PETer
Posted by PETer 3 years 3 months ago

The Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson is to remake classic British war film The Dam Busters.

The project is due to start filming next year, with a budget of $30-40m.

Jackson will produce the movie, with King Kong animator Christian Rivers in the director's chair.

Jackson said it would be "as authentic as possible and as close to the spirit of the original as possible".

The 1954 film told the true story of how Britain developed bouncing bombs to destroy German dams in World War II.

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