The official 2006 update...
It's been four months since the last update. I thought it best to include a few highlights and upcoming events:
- I am rewriting the script...again. After going through the trailer process and late 2005 sales process, I took two months off from the project to clean the palette (so to speak). After rereading the script over the Holidays, I found several points in the script that could use some improvement. There will be some great changes ahead...all of which will result in an even more powerful story.
- The trailer is now available online for all to see. Please forward the link onto friends. It'll make the marketing part of the project that much easier when a studio agrees to greenlight the project.
- We have several meetings planned with development heads at three of the big studios in the first part of 2006, including one in February. Let's all hope for the best.
Again, I apologize for the length in between these two updates. I look forward to hearing more comments from you. I know we all believe in this story...
Until next time...
posted by tazdirector at 13:29
8 Comments:
I hope you get the "thumbs up" on this project. I am Japanese-American but I know very little about the camps and what these brave men went through. Please get this film out and help educate me and the rest of society on the truth... Good Luck! and I look forward to seeing this film sometime in the near future. Ganbatte kudasai.
jesse:
you rule. i'm praying for you. best of luck on the re-write. someday we'll both look back on this and smile. i want to add your site to our 'friends page' at 36parables.com. could you send me a few sentences to describe the project? i'd rather use your words over mine. i will then put you on this page: http://36parables.com/friends.php. it ain't much, but it's something.
let me know if you need anything.
dave gaw
Will you be setting up a street teams to get the word out and drum up support?
I'm not Japanese American, but I've grown up with a lot of Japanese American friends, some whom had grandfathers and uncles who served. Their amazing story has never been told, but it deserves to be shown to a wider American audience because the lessons from that time still should resonate today: people of this country should never be judged to be "un-American" simply because of their race or ethnic background.
I hope you don't give up in the face of mainstream Hollywood BS and you keep fighting to get this picture made and distributed!
I was delighted to learn about your movie, and I wish you all the luck. It's a story that needs to be told on a large scale and I hope the studios are smart enough to back your project.
I hope you get the project through - it's something everyone needs to learn more about and to care about. Perhaps we can all learn to understand each other more in today's context with the War on Terror and Arab Americans. I'm rooting for you.
It was less than 80 years from General Lee’s surrender at Appomattox, to Pearl Harbor. The U.S. was just coming out of the great depression, and life in general moved at a slower pace, and the country was still segregated by race and religion, with 1 in 3 children in the south suffering malnutrition, effects from the post reconstruction period.
Due to wartime manpower requirements, segregated units had been formed following past examples used within the Army from previous conflicts. A few examples are listed below and by no means complete list, far from it.
· 100th / 442nd Go For Broke
· 99th / 332nd Tuskegee Airmen
· Patton’s Red Ball Express
· Navaho Code Talkers
· Flying Tigers
· USS Mason
· 9th/10 CAV
· 555th PIR
· 761st Tank Bat.
I’ve included the Tigers in my short list solely based on this unit’s treatment by the Army Air Corps.
Many flag officers careers had been ruined in supporting full integration during the war; probably the greatest champion in politics was Eleanor Roosevelt. But in the end it was the ordinary troops of these units accomplished by their own actions in combat, which lead to the 1948 act signed by Truman for full integration of the services.
Things didn’t change overnight, prejudice, racist treatment continued for many years in various examples. I think the greatest single example I know of following the services integration was of a recent Medal of Honor recipient a Corporal Tibor Rubin.
http://www.army.mil/medalofhonor/rubin/
http://www.army.mil/medalofhonor/rubin/video/index.html
But, by the time I enlisted in the Navy on active duty some four decades later from these events. Our ships crews comprised people from all races, and a few foreign nationals. Not a sailor or marine ever gave it a second thought, and you might say as a result of these segregated units accomplishments during WWII, today there is only one color in the Navy, and that’s Navy Blue!
But then and again few things will never change.
· What’s for Chow
· Mail Call
· Liberty Call
This is a great story to tell. But I have to disagree with some who say its a story that's never been told. Shortly after WWII, the movie "Go For Broke" was filmed and distributed. It was in line with many post war movies that talked about different units such as the "Red Ball Express" and the Nissei.
I am Japanese American, my grandfather served in the 442 and I am a third generation US Army Soldier/Officer. I hope the movie does justice to the sacrifice of the men and shows some of the conditions on the homefront that they had to deal with. Best of luck! I hope the rewrite goes well!
I look forward to your move. I am linking this blog to my blog. I wrote a peice in my blog about the 422nd RCT and in my research for facts I found you movie. This is a story that needs to bo told.
http://clutteredeclecticmind.blogspot.com/
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