"It took a lot of persuasion from Anderson and the producers to get permission to show that."īut Jackson has promised that his version will differ from Anderson's "slightly romanticised view of what happened".
Why does Foster feel that the 1955 film, released 12 years to the day of the raid, captured the public imagination? "They were the first people to show the actual bombs being dropped," he explained. Praising the documentary style of Anderson's original, Foster says he fears that any Hollywood remake might have "too much concentration on special effects and not enough on the drama of the real life story." "I'm disappointed that Jackson has taken so long and we've had so many false starts on this."īut he has reservations. "I would like to see the remake happening, certainly," he said.
And after years of false starts and setbacks, Jackson has now confirmed to the Telegraph that he plans to make his own version of The Dam Busters in the next two years. It was nominated for two Oscars and four Baftas and continues to feature in lists of the greatest ever war films. The 9,200lb projectiles, invented by Barnes Wallis, bounced off the water then sank so they could explode against the dams. In order to achieve such precision, the 19 Lancaster bombers had to fly exceptionally low - just 150 feet - and were incredibly vulnerable.Įight planes and 53 crewmen were lost, but 617 Squadron were successful in destroying two of the targets. Their ingenuity and bravery were remembered in Anderson's film starring Richard Todd and Michael Redgrave. The aim of the May 1943 mission was to drop unique bouncing bombs on the Möhne, Edersee and Sorpe dams in Germany's Ruhr Valley and create a devastating flood, and retelling it for modern audiences has obsessed the Lord of the Rings director for more than a decade. But military aircraft enthusiast and director Peter Jackson is planning to improve on it with his long-promised, long-delayed remake. Michael Anderson's 1955 film of the Dam Busters raid is rightly considered a classic.
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