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Peter T Chattaway
Pair floating 'Lifeboat'
Michel Shane and Anthony Romano ("I Robot," "Catch Me if You Can") are developing "Lifeboat 13," based on the WWII story of the four chaplains who gave their lives during the 1943 sinking of the Dorchester after it was torpedoed by a U-boat.
Variety, April 20

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Link to the Wikipedia page on the four chaplains.
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Peter T Chattaway
I have to say, I think Jeffrey Wells has a point:
Read these two summaries of the four chaplains saga -- -- Wikipedia's and this other hokey one -- and tell me where the movie is. Wartime self-sacrifice deservedly wins medals, but a willingness to die so that other might live does not make for an interesting story in and of itself. Touching, yes, but certainly sad, but in a generic wartime sense. Their sacrifice lacks intimacy and therefore meaning, I would argue. Leonardo DiCaprio's Jack Dawson realizing Kate Winslet's Rose has to float on the wooden chest alone or they'll both die of hypothermia has that element. Four men of the cloth helping and saving others from death is the stuff of war monuments, not movies.
I wouldn't mind at all if a movie were made about these chaplains, but the kernel of the story DOES seem like a spur-of-the-moment kind of thing that will have to derive its larger meaning from whatever story gets created AROUND that moment -- and does anyone have a clue what that larger narrative might be?
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