It’s a daring casting decision.They've done it before.
Posted on 07/11/2017 2:43:21 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
in an unconventional move, Clint Eastwood has tapped Anthony Sadler, Alek Skarlatos, and Spencer Stone to play themselves in his next movie, “The 15:17 to Paris.” The film will tell the story of the three Americans who stopped a terrorist on a train bound for Paris...
The film is based on the book of the same name by Sadler, Skarlatos, Stone and Jeffrey E. Stern
(Excerpt) Read more at variety.com ...
Anthony Sadler, Alek Skarlatos, and Spencer Stone are the real deal.
"Many are called, few are chosen"
It’s a daring casting decision.
I’d bet it turns out well.
Sure wish that Clint and Duke Wayne had done a film together!
It would have been sumpthin’!
I recall a tv thing I think it was Merv Griffin did w/Big John...must’ve been in the 70s maybe....filmed down in Mexico, Duke & Merv were hitting the wine...I think it was wine...tongues loosened and a lotta old stories and remarks ensued...memorable, but I cannot recall any of them just now...
Merv kept saying they could edit out this and that and...as I recall...the big guy started warming up to talking more and editing stuff out...maybe that clip is somewhere out there online somewhere...if I had it I’d post it here...but...
Dick G: AMERICAN!
aka: Gunny G
1952-72
Semper TRUMP—If We Can Keep Him?
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Keith Ellison will play the crazed, goat-humping, boy-raping Mohammedan terrorist...no stretch there.
...no stretch there
Better to give the job to an honest working actor.
Maybe, even a veteran.
Perhaps, although Ellison acts as though he’s not the anti-American, ISIS-loving traitor he really is.
Didn’t one of the men in the Paris story die back here in the states after a bar fight? I seem to recall something like that happening. Could be wrong.
“Semper TRUMP—If We Can Keep Him?”
I believe, we the people intend to keep him.
The problem is some structural rot on our side.
They say the Romans used lead drinking cups causing mental problems.
What excuse is there for our very own jamokes?
A hypnotic drug is sucking them in...
Sadly they will do or say anything for ten seconds in front of a camera.
I would love to see that interview !
One of the young men, Spencer Stone, was stabbed but he didn’t die.
IIRC S. Stone was critically stabbed.
And recovered.
It’s a daring casting decision.They've done it before.
It’s important to remember that as the attack started the ARMED French police on the train ran and hid. I’m glad the Americas were ok.....the rest on the train I could care less
It’s important to remember that as the attack started the ARMED French police on the train ran and hid. I’m glad the Americas were ok.....the rest on the train I could care less
Aha!
Here it be! 1966 it turns out!!!!
Dick G
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https://gunnyg.wordpress.com/2016/05/30/john-wayne-interview-on-location-mexico-merv-griffin-show-1966/
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It’s a daring casting decision.
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Not unheard of though. Against all professional critics, Audie Murphy finally got to play himself in “To Hell and Back.” The nay sayers thought the most decorated soldier of World War Two and author of the book by the same name was too much of a “Baby Face” to play such a hero, himself.
Oh good. I thought he had died from the injuries. Thx.
Please do not overlook Harold Russell from The Best Years of Our Lives ( One of the best movies ever made.)
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Russell
In 1941, he was so profoundly affected by the December 7 attack on Pearl Harbor that he enlisted in the United States Army on the following day.
While he was an Army instructor, and training with the U.S. 13th Airborne Division at Camp Mackall, North Carolina, on June 6, 1944, a defective fuse detonated an explosive he was handling while making a training film.[5] As a result, he lost both hands and was given two hooks to serve as hands. After his recovery, and while attending Boston University as a full-time student, Russell was featured in an Army film called Diary of a Sergeant about rehabilitating war veterans.
When film director William Wyler saw the film on Russell, he cast him in The Best Years of Our Lives with Fredric March and Dana Andrews. Russell played the role of Homer Parrish, a United States Navy sailor who lost both hands during the war.
For his role as Parrish, Russell won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1947. Earlier in the ceremony, he was awarded an honorary Oscar for “bringing hope and courage to his fellow veterans.” The special award had been created because the Board of Governors very much wanted to salute Russell, a non-professional actor, but assumed he had little chance for a competitive win. It was the only time in Oscar history that the Academy has awarded two Oscars for the same performance.
Upon completion of the film, Wyler told Russell to return to school since there “weren’t many roles for actors without hands.” Russell returned to Boston University and graduated with a business degree in 1949.
Russell authored two autobiographies, Victory in My Hands (1949) and The Best Years of My Life (1981).
The Best Years of Our Lives won seven Academy Awards in 1946, including Best Picture, Best Director (William Wyler), Best Actor (Fredric March), Best Supporting Actor (Harold Russell), Best Film Editing (Daniel Mandell), Best Adapted Screenplay (Robert E. Sherwood), and Best Original Score (Hugo Friedhofer).[8] In addition to its critical success, the film quickly became a great commercial success upon release. It became the highest-grossing film and most attended film in both the United States and UK since the release of Gone with the Wind, selling approximately 55 million tickets in the United States [9] which equaled a gross of $23,650,000.[10] It remains the sixth most-attended film of all time in the UK, with over 20 million tickets sold.[11] The film had one of the highest viewing figures of all time, with ticket sales exceeding $20.4 million.[12]
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