anyone else think they could make a hell of a movie about the USS Indianapolis?

[charlie and algernon]

If done right, could be a terrifying horror movie and make up for that POS Open Water movie.



Hooper: You were on the Indianapolis?
Brody: What happened?
Quint: Japanese submarine slammed two torpedoes into our side, Chief. We was comin' back from the island of Tinian to Leyte... just delivered the bomb. The Hiroshima bomb. Eleven hundred men went into the water. Vessel went down in 12 minutes. Didn't see the first shark for about a half an hour. Tiger. 13-footer. You know how you know that when you're in the water, Chief? You tell by looking from the dorsal to the tail. What we didn't know, was our bomb mission had been so secret, no distress signal had been sent. They didn't even list us overdue for a week. Very first light, Chief, sharks come cruisin', so we formed ourselves into tight groups. You know, it was kinda like old squares in the battle like you see in the calendar named "The Battle of Waterloo" and the idea was: shark comes to the nearest man, that man he starts poundin' and hollerin' and screamin' and sometimes the shark go away... but sometimes he wouldn't go away. Sometimes that shark he looks right into ya. Right into your eyes. And, you know, the thing about a shark... he's got lifeless eyes. Black eyes. Like a doll's eyes. When he comes at ya, doesn't seem to be living... until he bites ya, and those black eyes roll over white and then... ah then you hear that terrible high-pitched screamin'. The ocean turns red, and despite all the poundin' and the hollerin', they all come in and they... rip you to pieces. You know by the end of that first dawn, lost a hundred men. I don't know how many sharks, maybe a thousand. I know how many men, they averaged six an hour. On Thursday morning, Chief, I bumped into a friend of mine, Herbie Robinson from Cleveland. Baseball player. Boatswain's mate. I thought he was asleep. I reached over to wake him up. Bobbed up, down in the water just like a kinda top. Upended. Well, he'd been bitten in half below the waist. Noon, the fifth day, Mr. Hooper, a Lockheed Ventura saw us. He swung in low and he saw us... he was a young pilot, a lot younger than Mr. Hooper. Anyway, he saw us and he come in low and three hours later a big fat PBY comes down and starts to pick us up. You know that was the time I was most frightened... waitin' for my turn. I'll never put on a lifejacket again. So, eleven hundred men went in the water; 316 men come out and the sharks took the rest, June the 29th, 1945. Anyway, we delivered the bomb.

[Iggo]

1. Or it couold be Open Water...

...times 550.

NNNNNNOOOOOOOOOooooooooo......(!)

[charlie and algernon]

2. not if you have the right people involved

Like have Frank Darabont as director.

[Ava]

3. discovery channel made one

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_of_Fear

[charlie and algernon]

4. ya know, i think i may have seen that

I mean they should make a full-length feature film

[Lasher]

7. Yep, I remember it.

Some of the poor bastards drank salt water and went nuts. Some swam straight down into the ocean never to be seen again, thinking there was fresh water or food or something down there waiting for them.

[AlCzervik]

5. it could be good depending on who made it, i can already picture some awful Jerry Bruckheimer

production because that's just the kind of big story he'd love to bring to the screen and totally fuck up.

[charlie and algernon]

6. i think Frank Darabont could make a good one

he certianly made mist and fog scary and he can tell a good story since he made Green Mile and Shawshank.

[DS1]

8. Wolfgang Peterson

He knows something about water movies ;)

[AlCzervik]

9. Good pick!

But you know Jerry Brucckheiner and Tom Hanks will make it a joint project and maybe Nicolas Cage and one of his horrible hair pieces in there as well.

[fudge stripe cookays]

15. And for God's sake....

NO MICHAEL BAY!

That fucker needs to be kept tied up in someone's closet so he's never allowed to make one of his constant moving camera shot pieces of shit ever again. I get seasick watching his crap. Quickly shifting camera angles do NOT a good movie make, you hack!

[Marr]

10. I'd like to see it made in the Hong Kong style, with sharks on wires.

You know-- really fuck it up properly.

[bluesbassman]

11. I knew one of the sailors who survived.

His name was Al Havens (listed in the book, so I'm not posting private information). It was an amazing story, heard from someone who experienced it. Great tragedy that it happened so near the end of the war.

[charlie and algernon]

12. yeah, that might be the worst of it

that it happened right at the end of the war. kinda like all the people who died in the battle of new orleans after the treaty ending the war of 1812 had already been signed.

[Enthusiast]

13. There are a million WWII

Stories that could be made into interesting and profitable movies. If they would stick to the real script, that is.

[muriel_volestrangler]

14. Mission of the Shark: The Saga of the U.S.S. Indianapolis

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102455/

1991 TV movie, starring Stacy Keach and David Caruso.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

16. I think the OP meant a GOOD movie

not a movie destined for hell