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In another thread a month ago I made some comments about prospect of a Long Tan movie and doubted it would happen for script reasons.
On Thursday was talking to son of one of the participants in the battle and he told me about the movie and showed me trailer on his phone. I was impressed but when I looked at it again on bigger screen I found some aspects of the trailer odd. Have a look and see what you think.
In particular look at the shot early on with the helicopters, the scenes with the VC etc. It might remind you of another movie and trailer looks like a compilation from other productions (some might be from a Long Tan documentary which I have not seen). Even the music seems similar to another movie and am I right in saying it is Enya singing on part of it ? Trailer apparently been up for a year.
If you google the movie name you dont come up with much and most I have pasted below. Certainly some of the names mentioned are top calibre. Sam Worthington signed to play the Coy Commander and interesting to note his imdb page did not mention movie on Thursday but it has been added in last couple of days. Other actors not known and no links online to news stories about the production. Seems budget is A$15 million which I dont think gets you much of a movie these days. Note the comparison with other war movies mentioned below so they are aiming high.
From one web page (note all the pages are basically from one source).
DANGER CLOSE MOVIE synopsis
Late afternoon August 18, 1966 South Vietnam – for three and a half hours, in the pouring rain, amid the mud and shattered trees of a rubber plantation called Long Tan, Major Harry Smith and his dispersed company of 108 young and mostly inexperienced Australian and New Zealand soldiers are fighting for their lives, holding off an overwhelming enemy force of 2,500 battle hardened Viet Cong and North Vietnamese soldiers. With their ammunition running out, their casualties mounting and the enemy massing for a final assault, each man begins to search for the strength to triumph over an uncertain future with honour, decency and courage.
The Battle of Long Tan is one of the most savage and decisive engagements in Australian military history, earning both the United States and South Vietnamese Presidential Unit Citations for gallantry along with many individual awards. 18 Australians and more than 500 enemy were killed.
DANGER CLOSE is a nail biting and dramatic exploration of war illustrating heroism, tragedy and the sacrifice of battle. It will take its place alongside war classics such as BLACK HAWK DOWN, SAVING PRIVATE RYAN, GALLIPOLI, BREAKER MORANT & ZULU.
From one of the web pages
Check out the new interim website we’ve put together for our upcoming feature film DANGER CLOSE!
I’d like to to introduce you to the team behind our upcoming movie, DANGER CLOSE starring Sam Worthington (AVATAR, TERMINATOR SALVATION, CLASH OF THE TITANS) based upon the true story of The Battle of Long Tan. DANGER CLOSE will feature an ensemble cast made up of some of the best actors from Australia and New Zealand.
First of all there is me, Martin Walsh! I approached the seven Long Tan combat commanders (Harry Smith, Morrie Stanley, Dave Sabben, Geoff Kendall, Bob Buick, Adrian Roberts & Bob Grandin) back in late 2004 to secure the documentary and film rights.
To ensure as many people as possible were aware of the Long Tan story around the 40th Anniversary of the battle in 2006, I created, researched, co-wrote, produced and marketed (phew) the ASTRA award winning and TV Week Logie Award Nominated documentary on the Battle of Long Tan for The History Channel in Australia and New Zealand and which was narrated by Sam Worthington. The documentary was financed by FOXTEL and myself. I am also a senior marketing executive specialising in strategic and executional marketing. This is an interview I did for Sky
News about Long Tan on the 41st anniversary of the Battle of Long Tan in 2007:
Charles Hannah who Executive Produced the acclaimed movie ‘THE WORLD’s FASTEST INDIAN’ starring Anthony Hopkins and Directed by Roger Donaldson (’13 DAYS’, ‘THE RECRUIT’, ‘THE BANK JOB’) is producing DANGER CLOSE with me along with John Schwarz who is a producing partner in Sam Worthington’s Full Clip Productions. Charles has also been behind many other films such as ‘NEWCASTLE’, ‘UNFOLDING FLORENCE’ and ‘CONTROL’. The amazing, award winning Kriv Stenders who directed the Australian smash hit ‘RED DOG‘ is Directing DANGER CLOSE and the Primetime Emmy award winning Christine King (STAR WARS III, MOULINE ROUGE, X-MEN, RED DOG, GHOST RIDER etc) is our Casting Director. We also have two very experienced Executive Producers on board, Meyer Shwarzstein who co-produced ‘BRIDGE TO TERABITHIA’ and Peter Wetherell. Meyer and Peter are based in Los Angeles and bring many years of independent film financing, distribution and sales experience to the project.
The team from The Story Shop; James Nicholas, Karel Segers, Paul Sullivan and Jack Brislee completed a fantastic new script in 2012 which helped us secure Kriv Stenders as our Director. In 2013 we had the amazing opportunity for Australian Writer/Director Stuart Beattie (COLLATERAL, PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN, TOMORROW WHEN THE WAR BEGAN, I FRANKENSTEIN) to write a new draft script based upon the script written by The Story Shop. Stuart has written a cracking script which not only appeals to international audiences but stays true to its unique Australian roots and accurately brings this very important, true story to the big screen.
In 2013, Sam Worthington, Stuart Beattie and Michael Schwarz also came on-board as Executive Producers.
And of course we also have the unique talent and experience of Graham ‘Syd’ Cassidy who has been handling all of our media and PR for the project since 2004.
Main page to look at is here where the trailer is
http://dangerclosemovie.com/
Movie supposed to be out by August 2015 so they will need to get a move on. Seems they have been working towards this for almost 10 years so hope it makes it to the screens.
No prizes for guessing which movie parts of the trailer reminds me of. Then again that movie is quite a similar story.
Brett
In another thread a month ago I made some comments about prospect of a Long Tan movie and doubted it would happen for script reasons.
On Thursday was talking to son of one of the participants in the battle and he told me about the movie and showed me trailer on his phone. I was impressed but when I looked at it again on bigger screen I found some aspects of the trailer odd. Have a look and see what you think.
In particular look at the shot early on with the helicopters, the scenes with the VC etc. It might remind you of another movie and trailer looks like a compilation from other productions (some might be from a Long Tan documentary which I have not seen). Even the music seems similar to another movie and am I right in saying it is Enya singing on part of it ? Trailer apparently been up for a year.
If you google the movie name you dont come up with much and most I have pasted below. Certainly some of the names mentioned are top calibre. Sam Worthington signed to play the Coy Commander and interesting to note his imdb page did not mention movie on Thursday but it has been added in last couple of days. Other actors not known and no links online to news stories about the production. Seems budget is A$15 million which I dont think gets you much of a movie these days. Note the comparison with other war movies mentioned below so they are aiming high.
From one web page (note all the pages are basically from one source).
DANGER CLOSE MOVIE synopsis
Late afternoon August 18, 1966 South Vietnam – for three and a half hours, in the pouring rain, amid the mud and shattered trees of a rubber plantation called Long Tan, Major Harry Smith and his dispersed company of 108 young and mostly inexperienced Australian and New Zealand soldiers are fighting for their lives, holding off an overwhelming enemy force of 2,500 battle hardened Viet Cong and North Vietnamese soldiers. With their ammunition running out, their casualties mounting and the enemy massing for a final assault, each man begins to search for the strength to triumph over an uncertain future with honour, decency and courage.
The Battle of Long Tan is one of the most savage and decisive engagements in Australian military history, earning both the United States and South Vietnamese Presidential Unit Citations for gallantry along with many individual awards. 18 Australians and more than 500 enemy were killed.
DANGER CLOSE is a nail biting and dramatic exploration of war illustrating heroism, tragedy and the sacrifice of battle. It will take its place alongside war classics such as BLACK HAWK DOWN, SAVING PRIVATE RYAN, GALLIPOLI, BREAKER MORANT & ZULU.
From one of the web pages
Check out the new interim website we’ve put together for our upcoming feature film DANGER CLOSE!
I’d like to to introduce you to the team behind our upcoming movie, DANGER CLOSE starring Sam Worthington (AVATAR, TERMINATOR SALVATION, CLASH OF THE TITANS) based upon the true story of The Battle of Long Tan. DANGER CLOSE will feature an ensemble cast made up of some of the best actors from Australia and New Zealand.
First of all there is me, Martin Walsh! I approached the seven Long Tan combat commanders (Harry Smith, Morrie Stanley, Dave Sabben, Geoff Kendall, Bob Buick, Adrian Roberts & Bob Grandin) back in late 2004 to secure the documentary and film rights.
To ensure as many people as possible were aware of the Long Tan story around the 40th Anniversary of the battle in 2006, I created, researched, co-wrote, produced and marketed (phew) the ASTRA award winning and TV Week Logie Award Nominated documentary on the Battle of Long Tan for The History Channel in Australia and New Zealand and which was narrated by Sam Worthington. The documentary was financed by FOXTEL and myself. I am also a senior marketing executive specialising in strategic and executional marketing. This is an interview I did for Sky
News about Long Tan on the 41st anniversary of the Battle of Long Tan in 2007:
Charles Hannah who Executive Produced the acclaimed movie ‘THE WORLD’s FASTEST INDIAN’ starring Anthony Hopkins and Directed by Roger Donaldson (’13 DAYS’, ‘THE RECRUIT’, ‘THE BANK JOB’) is producing DANGER CLOSE with me along with John Schwarz who is a producing partner in Sam Worthington’s Full Clip Productions. Charles has also been behind many other films such as ‘NEWCASTLE’, ‘UNFOLDING FLORENCE’ and ‘CONTROL’. The amazing, award winning Kriv Stenders who directed the Australian smash hit ‘RED DOG‘ is Directing DANGER CLOSE and the Primetime Emmy award winning Christine King (STAR WARS III, MOULINE ROUGE, X-MEN, RED DOG, GHOST RIDER etc) is our Casting Director. We also have two very experienced Executive Producers on board, Meyer Shwarzstein who co-produced ‘BRIDGE TO TERABITHIA’ and Peter Wetherell. Meyer and Peter are based in Los Angeles and bring many years of independent film financing, distribution and sales experience to the project.
The team from The Story Shop; James Nicholas, Karel Segers, Paul Sullivan and Jack Brislee completed a fantastic new script in 2012 which helped us secure Kriv Stenders as our Director. In 2013 we had the amazing opportunity for Australian Writer/Director Stuart Beattie (COLLATERAL, PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN, TOMORROW WHEN THE WAR BEGAN, I FRANKENSTEIN) to write a new draft script based upon the script written by The Story Shop. Stuart has written a cracking script which not only appeals to international audiences but stays true to its unique Australian roots and accurately brings this very important, true story to the big screen.
In 2013, Sam Worthington, Stuart Beattie and Michael Schwarz also came on-board as Executive Producers.
And of course we also have the unique talent and experience of Graham ‘Syd’ Cassidy who has been handling all of our media and PR for the project since 2004.
Main page to look at is here where the trailer is
http://dangerclosemovie.com/
Movie supposed to be out by August 2015 so they will need to get a move on. Seems they have been working towards this for almost 10 years so hope it makes it to the screens.
No prizes for guessing which movie parts of the trailer reminds me of. Then again that movie is quite a similar story.
Brett
