Wing Commander Movie Broadcasting in France (September 24, 2010)

[ChrisReid]

The Wing Commander Movie will be airing in France in a series of time slots over the next few weeks. Tune into CINÉCINÉMA this Sunday morning for the first showing. I always like to see the various translated descriptions of the film, because they each have a unique slant depending on country of origin. A French trailer for the film is available here.

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In the 27th century, Earth goes to war against the Kilrathi powerful empire, which aims to annex and force them to submit, like the rest of the universe. After a surprise attack, the Kilrathi, physically close to that of humans, take control of a central navigation system. The invaders now have direct access routes to the blue planet (Earth). Nothing and no one seems able to halt their advance. Nobody, except perhaps the Lieutenant Christopher Blair and his two companions, the pilot and adventurer Maniac and Paladin. Under orders from their "Wing Commander", the superb Devereaux, they are left to defend against the Kilrathi Empire...


Le 26 Septembre @ 09h25
Le 29 Septembre @ 13h30
Le 30 Septembre @ 22h25
Le 02 Octobre @ 11h25
Le 06 Octobre @ 10h10

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Original update published on September 24, 2010

 

[Bob McDob]

Interesting thing they spelled 'Devereaux' properly (or misspelled it, depending on how you look at it.)

Remembering the front page updates, I think the film has been broadcast more times in France than in any other country, has it?

 

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Interesting thing they spelled 'Devereaux' properly (or misspelled it, depending on how you look at it.)

Remembering the front page updates, I think the film has been broadcast more times in France than in any other country, has it?

It would seem that way, but I would suggest that it's only really true in the last year or so. It's not surprising though for a number of reasons. Previously WC enjoyed pretty steady rotation in HD on various movie networks. However France is unique in that as late as 2008/2009 they actually only finally had a proper dubbed DVD release of the movie. So what were seeing is that version of the movie moving into rotation in french speaking countries.

 

[elend]

There has been a HD version of it on TV? Wow... I'd love to see that... I did like that movie actually.

 

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There has been a HD version of it on TV? Wow... I'd love to see that... I did like that movie actually.

You can rent it in HD on AppleTV or the iPad as well. I'm hoping there's a Bluray soon.