>A 240-tonne replica of a German U-boat is being moved to a French harbour ahead of filming for a major new Second World War drama series.
>The plot for Das Boot will pick up where the critically acclaimed movie of the same name ended and will focus on both a fictional German U-boat crew and the French resistance trying to disrupt their activities.
>Sky Germany is behind the £25m eight-part drama series and filming gets under way this week in the French seaside town of La Rochelle.
>Das Boot will be broadcast in the autumn of 2018.
>>The plot for Das Boot will pick up where the critically acclaimed movie of the same name ended and will focus on both a fictional German U-boat crew and the French resistance trying to disrupt their activities.
lol >French Resistance being a real thing this sounds Hogan's Heroes tier
Owen Martin
Hi Lindy!
Joseph Long
>will focus on both a fictional German U-boat crew and the French resistance trying to disrupt their activities How? All the resistance could do was signal the allies that this or that U-Boot had just left. Any sabotage would have been way earlier in the ladder.
Thomas Jones
Allo Allo! but with little u-boat rather than little tank.
Grayson Taylor
Verdammt
Josiah Jenkins
So it's gonna be a German production? How would they manage to do that? German TV series is shit.
Charles Taylor
>German TV series is shit. Deutschland 83 was great
Xavier Mitchell
>that flag Did they raise:lower it every time they crash-dive?
Isaac Parker
They only had it up when leaving/entering port
Alexander Green
PLEASE FUCKING BE GOOD
Adrian Watson
> French resistance
Let me guess: it's a group led by a woman, with a black guy as love interest, plus a jew and a beta white male who turns traitor after the 2nd episode
Brandon Turner
Are you one of those people who think Kommissar Rex was good?
Michael Nelson
Hey fuck you mate I watched that the week ends when I was in school
Zachary Wright
I watched this film yesterday
One of the best of WW2 genre
Aaron Sanchez
Never watched it, what's the relevance?
Justin Cruz
Who TOMSEN here?
Hudson Williams
Well I know what I won't watch.
>have an original highly acclaimed movie >it's so good that 36 years later people still can enjoy it >the story is so universal and the characters are so grounded >The entire premise of the conflict of the movie is escaping a horrible death in a metal tube. >have a cathartic payoff at the end effectively making any sequel impossible.
This is an anime version of the movie in a tv format. If you liked the move you should really enjoy this show.
Can't wait for diversity casting. We need to make sure minorities feel included in our history.
Lincoln Hughes
It's OK to watch it when you're 12
Jacob Gutierrez
>fictional German U-boat crew Why? There's a fucking shitton of real crews that went through crazy stories, why invent something that won't measure up?
Levi Wilson
Just finished the directors cut version yesterday. Damn nice, even better as native speaker. Ordered the blu ray of the TV series uncut, although I think there is still a little longer version out there. My directors cut was 208min, I guess, and the blu ray I ordered is 300+.
ALAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARM!!!!!!!!!
Nathaniel Turner
>2199
Eli Wilson
they will most likely revolve it oround a new group of youngsters. And the movie ending was not the book ending, in which there was no attack.
Logan Johnson
Alarm fur Cobra 11 is kino.
Jeremiah Adams
Yeah just wait for the rival u boat captain to turn out a big nog too
Adam Martin
Yeah, couldn't have a happy ending for ze germans
Noah Kelly
Heimat is GOAT
Hudson Lopez
No, it was trash. Basically the Americans, but for stupid people
Connor Morales
Thanks for sharing your shit opinion.
Elijah Gutierrez
It felt like the attack was just the final nail in the coffin. The fact they made it back ashore would be good enough, but the loss of the ship just made it much more disheartening.
> a new group of youngsters.
This is what makes it all the more infuriating. They will attach the names of the crews to random people nobody has ever heard of. They will be in a completely different scenario. They only thing they will do is rape the name of das boot to add eyeballs to their shitty show.
>uboat crew >maintains and crews a uboat submarine >lives on a razors edge of death and life when in the open ocean >parties when on land like it will be their last time
>french resistance >lives under german occupation >spies on them and occasionally kills one >tries to sabotage supply lines and military assets >french are not allowed near highly secret german sub bases.
Jacob Peterson
>make sequel to a classic wow that worked well for Blade Runner, Alien, etc. etc. Will be a mediocre mess at best.
Aaron Jenkins
It could be great if it wasn't a straight sequel. Das Boot is set at a time where U-Boots still had it fairly easy, it only got worse and worse after that. There's a lot of potential, but from these few bits it doesn't look good.
Dylan Hill
>wow that worked well for Blade Runner
But it did. That movie was great.
Lincoln Walker
>Das Boot is set at a time where U-Boots still had it fairly easy
It was post-sonar. Meaning it was Hell.
Josiah Peterson
>Sky Germany is behind the £25m eight-part drama series I wonder (((who))) is REALLY behind it
Jose King
No, hell really started when radar became a thing. And it got worse as the tech progressed, and went from "detecting a surfaced U-Boot" to "detecting the tip of the periscope of a submerged U-Boot". With the US entering the war, the allies had air superiority over the entire Atlantic ocean, even on the Atlantic coast. A sub leaving any harbor would get reported by the local resistance and hunted down by anti submarine planes. That was a much worse hell than 1940-41.
Mason Cox
After the allies broke enigma they were all on borrowed time.
Jeremiah Stewart
lmao, I'm objectively correct and you know it
Austin Edwards
I know you're an idiot.
Jace Butler
Because that involves doing actual research which takes too much effort apparently and limits creative liberties.
Ayden Reed
I'm not the one watching a trash spy drama, with no basis in reality whatsoever
Mason Gutierrez
A few people going through some books written on the subject could come up with enough material for multiple seasons. I don't get how so much money can be blown on dogshit.
Jayden Reed
Which of the two shows are you talking about?
Noah Rodriguez
The one that's clearly aimed at sub-85 IQ mouthbreathers, aka, Deutschland 83
Lincoln Peterson
Etc? Why make a spinoff of this classic? Why is nothing ever sacred?
REEEEE
Kevin Brooks
>will pick up where the critically acclaimed movie of the same name ended You mean with everyone dead and the sub on the bottom of La Rochelle harbour? Oh yeah, that's going to work really well
Mason Flores
Yeah, if you just graduated from Nolantino Academy, sure.
Christian Baker
I hope this is just Star Trek on a U-boat
Oliver Adams
>TFW you see Thomsen!
Angel Sullivan
And the adversary is the French Resistance? wth? The British ruled the waves--who gives a shit about "French Resistance """"Navy"""" efforts against U-Boats? gay
Joshua Butler
This is a good move, as Nazism is becoming very popular in America.
Noah Morgan
This guy gets it.
Jordan Ward
I don't know if it's the actual plot or just very bad phrasing. Maybe the resistance will be a small subplot and the rest of the time will be U-Boot vs impossible odds out at sea. Else it's going to be guaranteed dogshit.
Ayden Price
How could the Jews have let this happen?
Evan Hughes
more borecore zzzzzzzzz
Isaac Martinez
If I was going to do a sequel (and I wouldn't because it's a fucking stupid lazy idea) I'd have it run at the same time as the original, on a different sub out of La Rochelle possibly Thomsen's if I could get an actor who looked enough like him and instead of using the French Resistance as a secondary plot use elements from The Cruel Sea, and set some episodes on one of the escort corvettes, ending with both the sub and the corvette being sunk within days of each other and any survivors slowly dying in the Atlantic.
Jonathan Sanders
New Blade Runner is better then the original though.
Alexander Nelson
Stick to breaking bad and GoT, kid.
Tyler Adams
Hope they don't try to humanize germans
Isaiah Bell
neat
Joshua Hughes
>French Resistance >has Americans instead of Brits
Hunter Anderson
I'd be really fucking down for a war comedy. Have there been any good ones since MASH/HH ended?
Brody Jackson
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Kevin Lopez
>Leading the French Resistance in the series will be Moussa from the French colony of Senegal and Zeina, a lesbian refugee who fled the Italian invasion of Tunisia