Why dont they make a film about ...

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23 Aug 15

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Eugene Bullard

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23 Aug 15

Originally posted by wolfgang59
Eugene Bullard

Nice thread Wolfgang.This man's life story could very easily be given the Hollywood treatment.Gives me something to Google in the wee hours when all is quiet here in the Keogh household.

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23 Aug 15

Originally posted by PJKeogh
Nice thread Wolfgang.This man's life story could very easily be given the Hollywood treatment.Gives me something to Google in the wee hours when all is quiet here in the Keogh household.

one amazingly brave dude

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Originally posted by redbadger
one amazingly brave dude

Indeed.

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23 Aug 15

Originally posted by wolfgang59
Eugene Bullard

Because he has a French name.

(Sadly, that's probably part of the reason... and sadly, there's another, much more obvious part.)

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Originally posted by Shallow Blue
Because he has a French name.

(Sadly, that's probably part of the reason... and sadly, there's another, much more obvious part.)

He's not the Red Baron, I know, pretty sad really. I've read the Red Barons book, was quite good.

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25 Aug 15

Originally posted by wolfgang59
Eugene Bullard

from Wikipedia:

The 2006 movie Flyboys loosely portrayed Bullard and his comrades in World War I.

In 2012-2014 the French writer Claude Ribbe wrote a book on Eugene Bullard [32] and made a TV 52' documentary.[33]

seems like there were films already?

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26 Aug 15

Originally posted by Ponderable
from Wikipedia:

The 2006 movie Flyboys loosely portrayed Bullard and his comrades in World War I.

In 2012-2014 the French writer Claude Ribbe wrote a book on Eugene Bullard [32] and made a TV 52' documentary.[33]

seems like there were films already?

I missed that but there seems to have been much more to his life than WW1.
Club owner in Paris.
Volunteer in WW2
Getting wounded (again)
Escaping to Spain.
Getting beaten up by New York's finest.

A biopic would be fascinating.

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26 Aug 15

Maybe the Ribbe book and docu would be a good starting point?
Though I presume they are only in French (at least at Amazon.de)

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21 Oct 15

Originally posted by wolfgang59
I missed that but there seems to have been much more to his life than WW1.
Club owner in Paris.
Volunteer in WW2
Getting wounded (again)
Escaping to Spain.
Getting beaten up by New York's finest.

A biopic would be fascinating.

If I ponder this I think that it would be material for starting a crwodfunding,?

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