Is Clint Eastwood making two IWO JIMA movies? (Warning: Link contains vulgarity)

Aint it cool news/Time Magazine ^ | 10/16/05 | Aint it cool news/Time Magazine

[Artemis Webb]

CLINT EASTWOOD TO SIMULTANEOUSLY RELEASE TWO MOVIES ON BATTLE OF IWO JIMA NEXT FALL: ONE FROM AMERICAN PERSPECTIVE, THE OTHER FROM JAPANESE PERSPECTIVE

Eastwood Realized He Had To Find a Way to Tell Both Sides of the Story

‘You Just Have to Trust Your Gut,’ Eastwood tells TIME

New York – Next fall, Clint Eastwood will simultaneously release two movies telling the story of the battle of Iwo Jima – one will be from the American perspective, and the other told from the Japanese perspective, TIME’s Richard Schickel reports in TIME’s What’s Next special issue (on newsstands Monday, Oct. 17).

[Artemis Webb]

Well I like Eastwood for the most part. I'm sure the Japanese had a point of view during the Battle of Iwo Jima. But I'm also sure as hell our side won. Just a hell of a high cost (6,800...6,000 of them Marines). I have no idea how many Japanese died and I don't mind their story being told as long history isn't changed and we become the bad guys.

[Americanexpat]

Won't be the first time we have seen a movie with from enmies point of view. I will be looking forward to seenig both.

[kAcknor]

How about Operation Barbarossa from the Russian perspective?

[Texas Eagle]

Clint Eastwood is still alive?

[Mr. Jazzy]

The fine movie "Tora! Tora! Tora!" was done that way with two production units and two directors, representing the Japanese and the American perspectives.

To this day, there are few movies that come as close to the truth of the events as this movie portrays the events of the attack on Pearl Harbor.

[river rat]

Instead of two movies -- each with its own audience -- why not ONE movie showing BOTH sides of the fight and the build up to the fight....

"Tora Tora Tora" did a credible job, doing just that.

Semper Fi

[pcottraux]

Not only is he still alive, but he's making the best movies of his career now. He said when he won the Oscar last year for Best Director, he felt like a kid who was just getting started.

[Ursus arctos horribilis]

Or, on Kursk, the greatest of tank battles in history which opened on June 5th, 1943. It absolutely broke the back of the Nazis.

[gunnyg]

A REAL SLAP IN THE FACE!
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[Mr. Blonde]

It sounds like the American film won't be focusing too much on the actual fighting. More on how the men who raised the flag were used back in the US. The Japanese film actually sounds more interesting to me since it is about the fighting. It also doesn't sound like they are pulling any punches about the way the Japanese fought.