[FoxInSocks]

I've seen rumors that casting is just about to start getting underway. Maybe this will be a big summer movie next year . . .

[warsaw44]

I just pray they don't mess this up. Pearl Harbor could have been an amazing movie and I understand the script was rewritten to include the love interest, the movie U-571 was so PC and foolish my pals and I just sat there with our jaws dropped, Enemy at the Gates could also have been great but still - the flippin' love interest ruined it.
I think these studio heads figure they must have a love interest in a war movie to increase the number of woman who will attend with a boy friend / husband. But Steven Spielberg's " Saving Private Ryan " had no love interest and was an enormous success.
Movies are the few times teenagers learn anything about history. I just hope a movie about Iwo Jima is not tuned into a sad tale of the oppressed Japanese longing for home, writing Haikus by candlelight in the tunnels and being slaughtered by the racist, imperialistic Americans.

I had always hoped Hollywood would recreate the Battle of Bunker Hill and the 44 uprising of Warsaw.

[archy]

I've seen rumors that casting is just about to start getting underway.

Casting began 11 April, per industry trade papers. Some details *here*.