An award-winning actor finds healing from his trauma as a World War II bomber by portraying an everyman in the greatest Christmas movie of all time. It’s like Top Gun meets White Christmas. Now That Should Be A Christmas Season Movie Release [Note: There is currently a biopic in pre-production from Burns & Co. I …
It is a War Drama.
In the vein of Top Gun: Maverick
It is like Hacksaw Ridge meets Valkyrie.
It follows bitter German fighter pilot Franz Stigler.
And rookie American bomber 2nd Lt. Charlie Brown.
As Franz seeks a Knight’s Cross by shooting down American planes and Charlie tries to keep his crew alive.
Problems arise when the Americans start bombing Franz’s homeland and Charlie’s plane is heavily damaged by enemy fire.
Together their sense of chivalry, honor and duty will result in one of the most remarkable acts of humanity during World War II.
The idea came to me when I was reading A Higher Call by Adam Makos and it reminded me of my own transformation from viewing all Germans as cartoonish Nazis involving someone named Franz.
My unique approach would be a World War II event told mainly from the German perspective in which Americans are seen as the faceless enemy dropping terror from metal beasts in the sky and our protagonist must come to see them as human.
A set piece would be when Lee’s Sherman Tank is hit by enemy artillery. In the ensuing explosion, Americans survive by jumping into the ravine surrounding the castle. Inside the castle, A German mother throws herself over her children and is wounded by flying mortar and stones. The older, aristocratic French gentlemen who have been standing around in the courtyard are galvanized in action by the sacrificial actions of the German mother. They grab rifles and machine guns and join the Americans and Germans on the castle walls to fight off the SS.
A Journey from Texas ends at the cold waters of the Rapido in Italy. Today’s book I would like to pitch as a movie is Crossing the Rapido: A Tragedy of World War II by Duane Schultz, from Westholme Yardley. The 36th Infantry Division, also known as The Arrowhead, Panther, or Lone Star Division was …