XXL Casting
With Midway, Roland Emmerich offered an impressive cast, worthy of the greatest war films (A Bridge Too Far, The Longest Day), including Ed Skrein, Patrick Wilson, Luke Evans, Aaron Eckhart, Nick Jonas, Tadanobu Asano, Alexander Ludwig, Mandy Moore, but also Dennis Quaid and Woody Harrelson (two actors that the filmmaker finds: Quaid was in & …
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Birth of the project
The project started in November 2016 and is the result of Roland Emmerich’s desire to make a film focused on this battle. The set designer Kirk M. Petruccelli, recurrent collaborator of the scenario writer, entrusts: “It all started from a fantasy of Roland who told anecdotes and spoke about this film which he would like to make. I went to Montreal with him during different phases of project preparation to discuss with researchers …
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Roland Emmerich’s note of intent
“I am really proud that we had the opportunity to tell this story because young people today do not always know the stories of those who fought for their freedom. I think that without this generation who fought in During the Second World War, our world would be very different. It was a real fight against fascism. Today, we sometimes forget these events but films have to perpetuate their m …
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