What about Emilio?
As for Michael Douglas, he would totally own the role of the Captain. I hope his health would permit him to do it, because IMHO, it would work great. Plus he looks a LOT like Kirk did when the film was made.
The Final Countdown
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What about Emilio?
As for Michael Douglas, he would totally own the role of the Captain. I hope his health would permit him to do it, because IMHO, it would work great. Plus he looks a LOT like Kirk did when the film was made.
This is one of my guilty pleasure movies, and I've been a huge fan of it ever since seeing it in the theaters. I even have the soundtrack. It's almost as though "Yesterday's Enterprise" somehow went back in time to years before it actually aired ....
I'd love to see a re-make of this. Maybe with a ready-to-be-retired CVN-65 making its way back to port at the end of its final mission [whistles casually]. And I'd want it to stay back there and create a whole new divergent timeline, forcing Yelland to deal with the consequences of his actions:
Mysterion and marillion, Eric Flint also explored this idea in the amazing series starting with the novel 1632. Here, an entire town from West Virginia is scooped up and plopped down in the middle of Europe in 1632. An alternate history results, of course.
Thanks for the heads-up, Forbin! The Zipang episodes are available at a huge discount on Amazon and I just ordered volumes one and two.
I'd love to see a re-make of this. Maybe with a ready-to-be-retired CVN-65 making its way back to port at the end of its final mission [whistles casually]. And I'd want it to stay back there and create a whole new divergent timeline, forcing Yelland to deal with the consequences of his actions:
Mysterion and marillion, Eric Flint also explored this idea in the amazing series starting with the novel 1632. Here, an entire town from West Virginia is scooped up and plopped down in the middle of Europe in 1632. An alternate history results, of course.
Thanks for the heads-up, Forbin! The Zipang episodes are available at a huge discount on Amazon and I just ordered volumes one and two.
Unfortunately Michael Douglas both is and looks far too old to credibly be the Captain of an American aircraft carrier.
That's actually my reasoning behind Charlie. He looks more like Martin in the film than Emilio does.
this is one of my favorite movies of all time. great cast,great acting and fantastic special effects and terrific sound track. though I think this time around if they do a remake it would be the air craft carrier RONALD REAGAN going back in time not the nimitz. the REAGAN is a much bigger ship and would most deffinetivelly be able to take down the world war 2 japanesse fleet.
as for charlie sheen I don't think he could hold his shit together to do a movie of this calibur. all so would love to see HARRY TURTLEDOVE to do the script.
as for charlie sheen I don't think he could hold his shit together to do a movie of this calibur. all so would love to see HARRY TURTLEDOVE to do the script.
This is one of my favorite movies. I quickly bought the DVD when it came out. The bonus features are really worth watching.
As I remember the movie, the captain does make the decision to engage the Japanese fleet. His choice is to change history. But "fate" has other plans, and takes the Nimitz back to the present.
Because of the involvement of the military in the film, it doesn't feel all that dated to me.
Did anyone on the Nimitz mention that the movie was made aboard the USS Ranger? In fact, Ranger has been used in several films, including TVH (as USS Enterprise)
An old buddy of mine was a Tomcat RIO and was serving on Ranger when Final Countdown was being filmed. He has a pile of snapshots he took during the filming.
@timothy: USS Nimitz and USS Ronald Reagan are of the same class of ship.
@aech101: Only Nimitz is mentioned in the acknowledgements in the end-credits for filming. Ranger is also not mentioned anywhere in the DVD commentaries or extras, IIRC.
@BriGuy: you're right, I mis-remembered that plot point about the CO's decision.
@aech101: Only Nimitz is mentioned in the acknowledgements in the end-credits for filming. Ranger is also not mentioned anywhere in the DVD commentaries or extras, IIRC.
@BriGuy: you're right, I mis-remembered that plot point about the CO's decision.
The Ronald Reagan is a Nimitz class ship and is therefore the same size as the Nimitz.
Nope. Mainly due to the fact that it was indeed filmed on the Nimitz.
FWIW, Kirk was 64 when The Final Countdown was made.
Nope, but I think there's a transport named Bob Hope.
Michael, however, has not aged well.
I missed it in the theatre — I'd only seen it when it played on cable, cropped to 1.33:1.
So imagine my glee when I bought the Limited Edition DVD and popped it into my 20" iMac!
Everything looked so much more awesome in widescreen, with sharp detail and nice black levels!
And since I haven't been able to track down a copy of the soundtrack, I'll go to StreamingSoundtracks.com and request the opening or end titles every chance I get.
So imagine my glee when I bought the Limited Edition DVD and popped it into my 20" iMac!
Everything looked so much more awesome in widescreen, with sharp detail and nice black levels!
And since I haven't been able to track down a copy of the soundtrack, I'll go to StreamingSoundtracks.com and request the opening or end titles every chance I get.
Quite a fun movie and I like the ending, makes perfect sense when you think about it. In historical terms though it wouldn't have much difference, the Nimtz didn't try to stop the Jap mini-subs which attacked Pearl harbour or the other Japanese attacks in the Philipines, Wake Island, Malaya etc the US would still have gone to war with Japan
There was nothing mediocre about Ronald Regan's acting, he should have got an Oscar for his role of President of the United States and he was nearly as convincing in his previous part Governor of California
There was nothing mediocre about Ronald Regan's acting, he should have got an Oscar for his role of President of the United States and he was nearly as convincing in his previous part Governor of California
If I was married to Katherine Zeta-Jones, I'd look like that too, due to wearing myself out with continual sex.
Um, wrong.
The only reason the United States entered WWII at all was the attack on Pearl Harbor. Up to that point, American involvement had been covert and weighted toward keeping Europe in the fight. If the Japanese fleet had been sunk before the attack took place, FDR would not have had the smoking gun he needed to go to Congress for a war declaration, or to the mostly isolationist American People for support for a major war.
If the loss of the Phillipines were going to be a catalyst for war the US would already have been fighting Japan at the time the Pearl Harbor attack was scheduled. Malaya was part of a theater of operations that the US had no real claim to. Wake Island was a follow-on attack. No Pearl Harbor, no Wake Island. And those two subs were just gathering intelligence and were caught by American coastal patrols. It may seem cold, but 2 subs getting sunk where they weren't supposed to be can be dealt with politically.
This is history. The attack on Pearl Harbor came first. Congress declares war on Japan. Germany declares war on the US to defend its ally. The US declares war on Germany. None of this happens if Capt. Yellind decides to sink the Japanese fleet.
FDR still would've found a way to come into the war it's what he wanted. and what he thought was best for our nation. even if a ship from the future went to the past those who knew the history of the pearl harbor attack left to right would want to stop the loss of life on that kinda of scale. all so the said ship had know one to answer to.
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