Bozkashi Jones | 09 Jul 2020 2:37 a.m. PST |
Just seen this article on the RN website: link Much as I'd love to see this as a film, I doubt it will be made. Mind you, the fascination with all things Churchill on both sides of the Atlantic, you never know. Nick |
The Virtual Armchair General | 09 Jul 2020 10:45 a.m. PST |
I'd see it in a heartbeat! TVAG |
Royston Papworth | 09 Jul 2020 11:39 a.m. PST |
Probably not, but if it does happen my brother and I will see it. So that's at least 3_tickets sold… 😀 |
Bozkashi Jones | 09 Jul 2020 1:03 p.m. PST |
Well, 5 – you, me, my lad, your brother and Armchair. We'll have to have a whip round to fund it :) |
EJNashIII | 09 Jul 2020 4:08 p.m. PST |
Please say we can see Jutland on the big screen! |
Shagnasty | 09 Jul 2020 7:44 p.m. PST |
Too good to be true but one can hope. Make that six tickets! |
Bozkashi Jones | 10 Jul 2020 3:42 a.m. PST |
Looks like we're gonna need a minibus! |
oldjarhead | 10 Jul 2020 8:33 a.m. PST |
Count me In for two tickets |
Blutarski | 11 Jul 2020 6:29 a.m. PST |
According to Nick Jellicoe, efforts to get a Jutland film project financed have been underway for several years, but not met with much success. After reading Stephen Roskill's biography of Beatty, my idea has long been to put Julian Fellowes in charge of producing a mini-series like "Downton Abbey" focused upon Beatty's life and career. I think it would be a spectacular story – particularly Beatty's personal life, which reads like a novel. If you have not read Roskill's book, I highly recommend doing so. FWIW. B
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Nine pound round | 13 Jul 2020 5:55 p.m. PST |
Didn't the second earl sue Roskill over the book? I can't remember what the pretext was – unauthorized use of sources, or something like that? Jutland would be a CGI-fest without parallel, NTTAWWT. The story has enough twists and turns for any drama, you just have to hope that they will use the actual story, rather than inventing a bunch of stuff. |
Blutarski | 14 Jul 2020 8:48 p.m. PST |
"Didn't the second earl sue Roskill over the book?" Interesting. News to me at any rate. What I do recall is that Roskill did not shrink from discussion of certain unsavory aspects of Beatty's personal life – suggesting that his wife (American heiress Ethel Tree) was a manic depressive with nymphomaniacal tendencies, implying that Beatty may have been carrying on an affair with his niece, and that Beatty's curt refusal of his old BCF signals officer Ralph Seymour's request for said niece's hand in marriage (Beatty being her guardian) was the cause of Seymour's subsequent suicide. As mentioned, Beatty's life reads like a novel – further example, Beatty died from pneumonia contracted while acting as a casket bearer on the cold and rainy day of Jellicoe's funeral. You just cannot make this stuff up. B
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Nine pound round | 18 Jul 2020 6:52 a.m. PST |
Yes, he was quite the character, as they often are. I did some googling and found an online fragment of Barry Gough's book, which I keep meaning to read. The suit was filed for "breach of copyright" by the executors of the estate of the second earl. I can't pretend to familiarity with it, but my recollection is that it concerned permission to reprint the contents of certain letters. But I agree on his life: it was colorful, Lady Beatty in particular, with her "Chicago accent" and general craziness would have a lot of cinematic opportunities. |
Blutarski | 19 Jul 2020 9:06 a.m. PST |
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Nine pound round | 23 Jul 2020 5:52 p.m. PST |
Jutland has some made for cinema moments: the turret crews bailing out of "Queen Mary" as she capsizes; the crazy, confused night action; Warspite turning circles in front of the German fleet (after plenty of previous shots of the steering engine looking like it's about to spaz during the Run to the North); Gasson seeing the shot that blows him, alive, out of Q turret and destroys Invincible; Arbuthnot steering full tilt into the teeth of the German fleet; the struggle to save "Seydlitz"; I am just scratching the surface. |
Blutarski | 25 Jul 2020 10:41 a.m. PST |
I don't think that real justice could evre possibly be done to Jutland within the conventional time frame of a single film ….. but I'd absolutely like to see the attempt made. B |