Then I hope the characters and events are not misrepresented in the quest for fitting things in while making it dramatic enough for its audience. I would rather the film didn't exist than that happen. History shouldn't be distorted, and people should certainly not be misrepresented, for something as silly as a movie. I mean look at what happened to mermaids, they are still struggling to be taken seriously.
(By distorted I mean that movies have a way of becoming the truth in people's eyes. This worries me, not just with regard to this story, but also in general terms - what it says about people.)
If it's just another dramatic fiction then don't use real people and events as anything other than inspiration.
Also - I hope it isn't a CGI fest yet again: Cartoons pretending not to be...
I'd really like to see what the French could do with it, they have a way of making a film that I find much more involving than Hollywood's efforts. I think they might "get" formula one from that era better as well. Maybe we'll see them do a Prost v Senna film, that'd be interesting.
Reckon the British film industry could still do a film that'd do it justice? Couldn't get a better place for understanding the culture.
Having become less and less interested in American film and TV over the years it seems to me that writing a movie with no experience of events/culture/people etc looks simple - take Hollywood formula story - distort facts to fit. And of course sacrifice whatever you need to to insert some ridiculous piece of CGI.
Hard bit is to convince people it's something different.
3D lol, yeah, I can see it now - unfortunately... So much promise - so annoying. Might be better if they didn't try so hard to make it obvious.
Tim.
