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I must disagree with you on your point about the unfair reviews. Having read the book Gods and Generals more than twice, and reading the script which was in a book that came out around the release of the movie, the problem was with the fact that Maxwell destroyed the movie with the speeches, bad research and worse editing. He tried to do with Gettysburg that Lucas tried with Star Wars.
He focused most of the story on Jackson and left everybody else grabbing for air. He wasted the talents of Robert Duvall as Lee. And Chamberlain should have been recast. Jeff Daniels was 10 years older and looked it. And please, Using Harper's Ferry to stand in for Fredericksburg, ignoring Antietam altogether(Because Jackson wasn't there) And by the way Chamberlain and his unit did not see any action at Fredericksburg- check it out.
I'm a filmmaker and I could have made a better movie than Maxwell did. So now he ruined any chance of getting the trilogy finished unless Turner can get a good director. We need a Spielberg, or Michael Bay or Ed Zwick to make it happen.
But first, re-edit Gods and Generals re-release it- add the Antietam scenes in it, take some of the focus off Jackson and give it to Lee-take out the PC crap and speeches. And take that scene out with Mr Blair at the beginning, Very bad acting-Not Duvall, the other guy. I feel sorry for Duvall that he had put up with it. If I had the footage in a digital format, I mean all the footage, I could cut together a better movie.
And if necessary, recast parts. And get a younger John Bell Hood for Pete's sake the man was in his mid to late thirty's, not an old man.
What happened to the friendship between Hancock and Armistead before the war?
The movie should be made and I'm glad that Ted Turner has severed ties with Maxwell.