Peter Jackson On Dam Busters Remake

Lord Of The Rings director Peter  Jackson has been pegged for a while to direct a reboot of WW2 movie The Dam Busters.  The movie was a true story of Lancaster bombers using the ‘bouncing bomb’ to attack targets in Germany.

This week, Jackson addressed the remake.

“It’s a very beloved story. I’ve had so many people the last five years come and ask, ‘When are you going to remake The Dam Busters? When are you going to make The Dam Busters?’ Honestly, you ask me what I got out of five years of making The Hobbit? It was me feeling like I have to make The Dam Busters, because of the endless people asking, ‘When are you going to make The Dam Busters?’

We still have the rights, and it’s one in a little pot of movies. We don’t have a next movie nailed down, but certainly ‘The Dam Busters ‘is one of them. There is only a limited span I can abide, of people driving me nuts asking me when I’m going to do that project. So I’ll have to do it. I want to, actually, it’s one of the truly great true stories of the Second World War, a wonderful, wonderful story.”

This could be part of an ongoing comeback for the WW2 movie.  With David Ayer tackling Fury and Danny Boyle helming big-budget Band Of Brothers-style TV series Telemark.  Let’s hope so.