HBO will do a behind-the-scenes look at Flags of Our Fathers starting October 11. The show is scheduled to last about 13minutes and will show several sequences from the film. If you miss the show, you can watch it again on Oct. 12 and additional time slots. To get the full schedule, go to this link.
Milan Entertainment will be releasing the “Flags of Our Fathers” soundtrack on October 17. Two days ago, we provided you with the track list for the soundtrack. Now, Milan is letting us host 6 sample clips from the soundtrack. The soundtrack features an original score by Clint Eastwood, nostalgic standards by Irving Berlin, Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne and John Philip Sousa, as well as original recordings by Dinah Shore and Artie Shaw and His Gramercy Five. Listen to them now!
Milan Entertainment will be releasing the soundtrack to “Flags of Our Fathers” for US markets on October 17th, 2006. For now, Milan was kind enough to send us a listing of the songs available on the soundtrack. Please note that all songs identified with an asterisk(*) are Clint Eastwood original score.
The New York Times has posted a nice article about “Flags of Our Fathers” along with some background on how the film started, why they chose to cast unknown actors, using Iceland as the battleground stage and some insight into Haggis’s (screenwriter) point of view of the current War in Iraq and how it relates to the film. Lots of interesting little tidbits available in this article: “Mr. Haggis said he had made certain in his script to subvert any one-dimensional depiction of the politicians and generals as unfairly exploiting the returning marines. So in a crucial scene, a politician tells the surviving flag-raisers that their crass re-enactments of the flag-raising, however unfaithful to the memories of their fallen comrades, were vital in rallying the nation at a moment when the government was nearly broke.”
More at the New York Times article.
The Hollywood Symphony Orchestra, a world-class orchestra dedicated entirely to symphonic film music, will be performing select pieces of music from Flags of Our Fathers on October 7 at Royce Hall at the University of California at Los Angeles.
The trailer that we’ve all been waiting for is now available online at Military.com. You can view the trailer here. You’ll need Windows Media Player to run it. After viewing, join us in our forum to discuss it. We’d love to hear your thoughts!
Just got word from Paramount that the first trailer for “Flags of Our Fathers” will appear before HOLLYWOODLAND. Again, this is not the “combo” trailer that was recently released a few weeks back. This is an all-new trailer that features scenes only from “Flags”. Current buzz is saying it’s a remarkable trailer.
Adam Beach (Ira Hayes) has landed a lead role in an upcoming HBO Original Movie “Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee,” which chronicles how American Indians were displaced as the U.S. expanded West during the latter half of the 19th Century.
Since we’re all getting ready for the new “Flags” trailer launch (Friday), I’d like to welcome all of you to come and join us in our “Pacific War” forum. We are a friendly bunch and we promise we wont bite! You’ll get to rub elbows, er, virtual elbows, with many people who have the same interests you do. Heck, you’ll get to chat with fellow crew members from the film, video game creators from games such as Call of Duty, war film buffs, crazies and even Iwo Jima war veterans. What other forum can boast such a diverse (and cool) group of people?
Come on in and join us! We’ll leave the door open for ya. Click here.
Variety posted a nice article about the question of how to market two films with a release date so close together. The article also mentions the fact that Eastwood came up with doing “Letters from Iwo Jima” while filming “Flags of Our Fathers”.
