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Guys: Sandra, aside. Nungesser brings sex, booze, violence and high adventure. Hollywood wouldn't like that? And, of course, Sandra could play a beauty from Paris.
DD

Add another vote to the Nungie story, but only if the guy that plays him does his own stunts.

In Decemeber 2000, a screenwriter by the name of David Self (13 Days), sold a pitch to Universal for $1.5 mil, centered around WWI flying. No other details.

Albert Ball: Young tragi-hero; son of a reverend, young fiance, public school, typical olde English,lunatic solo attacks, lunatic violinist walking around his tent at night under the light of flares he set off, and hated "this beastly war"

Bob

[Stephanie]

Ball's definitely our man.

The only problem with Hollywood and WWI is that it was an unpopular war, and was construed as such during the Viet nam era in Hollywood as well. Perhaps audiences are ready to see other things in it?

I think Matt Damon should be cast as Manfred, Martin Short as Luke and I say we put Brad Pitt in the towell.

A film on Rhys Davies (or Davids I always get it wonrg)...However the cast would have to be made up entirely of un-know actors, young fresh faces never yet seen before to portray a desirable effect, okay it may not be the box office smash of the year but would be a nice tribute to our brave lads...

and as for birds in towels I'd vote for Kate Winslett, her look in Titanic could capture Wartime brilliantly!!!

Nungesser's story would make an excellent movie! Without hardly any "smudging" of the facts at all, it'd still play like a Indiana Jones or James Bond-esque adventure. Plenty o' women, booze, and violent air crashes. Somehow, that sounds like it just might go over with the American public

Next month's "Enemy at the Gate", about a famous (if fictional) sniper duel at Stalingrad, (it was Red Army propaganda, never really happened) and last year's "Saving Private Ryan" indicates that WW II is popular again, and now that few if any real veterans of the Great War are left to get in the way, perhaps it is time to take a look at what really separated the 19th from the 20th centuries.

Now this is how I see it, a vast panorama of adventure, sacrifice, and, of course, romance, amid the blood-stained skies of WWI...
The story is seen through the eyes of an American volunteer, played by Tommy Lee Jones. Naturally enough, he is considered a braggart. His only friend, the only fellow in the squadron who trusts in him, is the lowly cook, played by Sir Anthony Hopkins (who makes sure that the boys never have want of wine, especially a "nice" chianti).
Soon more and more American volunteers appear, and, as Mr. Jones is of infinite range as an actor, all of them are played by him.
Their able antagonist is the German pilot who flies in an all-red machine, called, with commendable historical accuracy, "La Petite Rouge". The rumour is that this German pilot is actually a WOMAN, bent on avenging the death of her pilot-lover...
Of course, Tommy Lee (as the ORIGINAL American volunteer) and this German pilot are destined to meet. And when they do, they both try to out-manouver one another, each with their own interpretation of the Immelmann Turn. The American is, in the end, triumphant, but is so badly shot-up that he lands in No-Man's Land, where he is rescued by a multitude of PFI (played by prominent Forumites in cameo appearances). The German is captured as well, and it turns out that "La Petite Rouge" really WAS a woman, played by Sandra Bullock (wearing a towel under her overcoat and a Chanel scarf)...

Albert ball was a good suggestion,also Mannock,this film would have to be very graphic,showing us how it really was,'Saving private Ryan' in the air.