Interview with Peter Jackson on new Dambusters movie

[B-29 Super Fort]

QUINT: You said Weta's already build the bomb. I take it you're going to go for the Weta special, miniatures and model work combined with CGI?

PETER JACKSON: Yeah. Richard Taylor's been quietly building a Lancaster bomber, which has actually been a little difficult to hide in the Workshop! (laughs) The Lancaster bomber is a huge plane, so we've been building a Lancaster bomber over the last 2 to 4 months, which is our prototype to make molds from, then we're going to make about 10 more of them.

QUINT: Life-sized?

PETER JACKSON: Yeah, life-sized, yeah. We've got it at Weta Workship at the moment a fullsized Lancaster sitting in pieces and we're taking molds from it and from those molds we'll make fiberglass copies for the fullsized ones for the movie. We finished making a miniature of one of the dams and we've started on the next.

Wouldn't it be great to own one of the 10 Lancasters they will be making from the molds.

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[Edward Soye]

Very interesting!

I had heard some rumblings about this one, but no details straight from the horses mouth.

Quite interested to see what, if anything they do in terms of real flying scenes.

I know CWH was appraoched about flying VRA over the pond to do a flypast for the Queen with the BBMF Lanc a year or two ago. They were all set to go but the other end didn't come up with the money (500,000 pounds).

Would be interesting if that prospect was raised again with the idea of using both flying Lancs in the remake...