On Sat, Sep 17, 2016 at 8:56 AM, PatFinn1940 <pfinn2...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Jon-- > > This is an odd bit of casting, indeed. The only film I've seen Oldman in > is *Air Force One, *where he played a nasty Russian ultranationalist > terrorist. I'd have to see a trailer for *Darkest Hour *first, before > deciding if he's any good or not! > Searching for the actor on Google Images produces many photographs of Gary Oldman, in his own persona and in many different movie roles, and none of them bring Winston Churchill to my mind at all. Maybe he'll surprise us, but I'd like to see this chapter in Churchill's life done memorably by some actor who captures the historical person. I've mourned for many years that Robert Hardy's Wilderness Years series ended with his appointment as First Lord of the Admiralty, instead of continuing two more episodes to cover the "phony war" period in 1939-40, and then the German attack in the West, his appointment as Prime Minister, and his struggle against Halifax etc. to fight on. > > On Thursday, September 15, 2016 at 8:02:47 PM UTC-4, Jon wrote: >> >> I am hoping it will be based closely on John Kukacs' book *Five Days in >> May, 1940*. But I am also wondering about the choice of Gary Oldman as >> Churchill. >> >> On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 4:09 PM, 'John Mather' via ChurchillChat < >> church...@googlegroups.com> wrote: >> >>> This has great potential. I hope they get it right. Who will be their >>> historical advisors? Do they have one or two already? I had heard a rumor >>> that Lord David Owen is in the midst of a book on this period of history. >>> He maybe. Roll on the script and cameras. John H. Mather MD FACPE >>> >>> Sent from my iPhone >>> >>> > On Sep 15, 2016, at 12:00 AM, Cita Stelzer <ci...@irwinstelzer.com> >>> wrote: >>> > >>> > http://moviehole.net/2016108477darkest-hour-sets-release- >>> date-supporting-cast >>> > >>> > >>> > Cita Stelzer >>> > >>> > Please note new email address: >>> > ci...@irwinstelzer.com >>> > >>> > -- >>> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "ChurchillChat" group. >>> > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to churchillcha...@googlegroups.com. >>> > To post to this group, send email to church...@googlegroups.com. >>> > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/churchillchat. >>> > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> > <winmail.dat> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "ChurchillChat" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to churchillcha...@googlegroups.com. >>> To post to this group, send email to church...@googlegroups.com. >>> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/churchillchat. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "ChurchillChat" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to churchillchat+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to churchillchat@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/churchillchat. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ChurchillChat" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to churchillchat+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to churchillchat@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/churchillchat. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
