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Wührer You Been All These Years?
IGN has posted an interview with Red Alert 3 Executive Producer Chris Corry which touches on a subject that may be important to future Wing Commander games - EA's continued embracing of Full Motion Video in their C&C 'relaunch' titles. Could this mean that the likes of Mark Hamill and Tom Wilson might someday return for a Wing Commander film shoot? At the very least, let's see Agent Tanya again...
We really do think the live-action cinematics are a staple of the Red Alert series. We're going pretty full bore with the cinematics this time. We're going to have more than an hour of cinematics; it's almost a minimovie that we're shooting for this. We're not quite ready to talk about the cast. We've got almost the entire cast locked down, but until we actually do the cinematics shoot, which we're currently scheduled to do in mid April, we won't be talking about that. Until I've got the movie stars in their seats and doing their stuff, it doesn't feel real.
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World War Two Two, Book Two
It's that time of year - the second book co-authored by formr Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich and Wing Commander author Doctor William Forstchen, Days of Infamy, is on the horizon! This one continues the story of Pearl Harbor, continuing an alternate history of the Pacific War. We assume the nitpickers are already salivating over the choice of 'day' instead of 'date' in the title... we'll know for sure on April 29th.
Gingrich and Forstchen’s now critically acclaimed approach, which they term “active history,” examines how a change in but one decision might have profoundly altered American history. In Pearl Harbor they explored how history might have been changed if Admiral Yamamoto had directly led the attack on that fateful day, instead of remaining in Japan. Building on that promise, Days of Infamy starts minutes after the close of Pearl Harbor, as both sides react to the monumental events triggered by the presence of Admiral Yamamoto. In direct command of the six carriers of the attacking fleet, Yamamoto decides to launch a fateful “third-wave attack” on the island of Oahu, and then keeps his fleet in the area to hunt down the surviving American aircraft carriers, which by luck and fate were not anchored in the harbor on that day.
Historians have often speculated about what might have transpired from legendary “matchups” of great generals and admirals. In this story of the aftermath of Pearl Harbor, the notorious gambler Yamamoto is pitted against the equally legendary American admiral Bill Halsey in a battle of wits, nerve, and skill.
Days of Infamy recounts this alternative history from a multitude of viewpoints---from President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill, and the two great admirals, on down to American pilots flying antiquated aircraft, bravely facing the vastly superior Imperial Japanese Navy aircraft. Gingrich and Forstchen have written a sequel that’s as much a homage to the survivors of the real Pearl Harbor attack as it is an imaginative and thrilling take on America’s entry into World War II.
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