For a while now, my friend Randy and I have been talking about he possibility of making a movie, and he has asked me for a script. Why not add that experiment to the rest. It may not be possible for us to take the story to the screen(one can always dream...), but I could try to write script from it...
Actually making it into a movie may not be impossible, it would just require a lot of creativity, since we have no budget, and obviously cannot stage scenes of war with dozens of planes and hundreds of people, old cars, trucks, etc... We would have to use existing documentary footage, cut with actual close ups. Having the character as an old man retelling the story to his grand son as they are making a model of the glider would make things much easier. The grandson could research WW2 images and movies on his iPad to illustrate the story recounted by the grandfather. Some period scenes could be shot in close up.
A possibility that just occurred to me would be to have a contemporary journalist dig up that story about two kids blowing up a German ammunition depot in 1943 by flying into it a glider they built and loaded with explosives, and looking for them to talk to them and find out more.
Actually making it into a movie may not be impossible, it would just require a lot of creativity, since we have no budget, and obviously cannot stage scenes of war with dozens of planes and hundreds of people, old cars, trucks, etc... We would have to use existing documentary footage, cut with actual close ups. Having the character as an old man retelling the story to his grand son as they are making a model of the glider would make things much easier. The grandson could research WW2 images and movies on his iPad to illustrate the story recounted by the grandfather. Some period scenes could be shot in close up.
A possibility that just occurred to me would be to have a contemporary journalist dig up that story about two kids blowing up a German ammunition depot in 1943 by flying into it a glider they built and loaded with explosives, and looking for them to talk to them and find out more.
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