With all the experience in World War II stories, this Spielberg film would have been legendary and the perfect copy of ‘Saving Private Ryan’.
Steven Spielberg is synonymous with good cinema. The American director has brought unprecedented stories to the big screen such as Jurassic Park, ET the alien, Shark and Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Not for nothing, the filmmaker has managed to take home a couple of statuettes, standing out for his work behind the camera and special effects..
Throughout his outstanding career in the seventh art, Spielberg has been offered to direct films that, for one reason or another, he has had to reject. Spielberg once considered directing harry potter and the Philosopher’s Stonealthough in the end he chose to work on another project and the film remained in the hands of Chris Columbus. However, in Spielberg’s career there is one superhero movie that he could never make and that would have been great if it had come true..
On two occasions, Spielberg attempted to bring his vision to DC to make a film that would have been a copy of two of his most acclaimed films: Saving Private Ryan and Schindler’s List. Like the Oscar-winning films, the DC Comics project was set in World War II in which an elite team, led by a talented pilot, faced the harsh battles of the time.
Although Spielberg already had extensive experience in the war genre, he was never able to convince DC to make an adaptation of blackhawk. Spielberg’s first attempt occurred in the 1980s. At that time, the star of The Ghostbusters, Dan Aykroyd, was interested in the lead role. However, Spielberg began working on Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark, so the project was postponed. In 2018, it was announced that a movie was in development. blackhawkalthough once again the film was forgotten.
What would ‘Blackhawk’ have been about?
blackhawk would have focused on a World War II military unit, the setting is perfect for Spielberg, who has directed one of the greatest war epics of all time. Led by a mysterious man named Janos Prohaska (known as Blackhawk), Blackhawk Squadron is a team of pilots of various nationalities.. The group of heroes would fight against the Axis powers and villains. If it had existed, Blackhawk would have been the perfect copy of Saving Private Ryan.
