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* ReferencedBy: The Death Star attack sequence in ''Film/ANewHope'' is famously an almost shot-for-shot {{homage}} to the AirstrikeImpossible sequence in this film, due to Creator/GeorgeLucas making his production crew watch this film and ''Film/SixThreeThreeSquadron'' as reference material.

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* ReferencedBy: The Death Star attack sequence in ''Film/ANewHope'' is famously an almost shot-for-shot {{homage}} to the AirstrikeImpossible sequence in this film, due to Creator/GeorgeLucas making his production crew watch this film and ''Film/SixThreeThreeSquadron'' as reference material. In fact, footage from ''The Dam Busters'' was used in early cuts as a stand-in for the trench run while the special effects were being developed.
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* ReferencedBy: The Death Star attack sequence in ''Film/ANewHope'' is famously an almost shot-for-shot {{homage}} to the AirstrikeImpossible sequence in this film, due to Creator/GeorgeLucas making his production crew watch this film and ''Film/SixThreeThreeSquadron'' as reference material.
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* DevelopmentHell: The remake was announced in 2008. As of 2020, it's yet to begin production and as it's a pet project of Christian Rivers, who has the unenviable distinction of being the director of ''Film/MortalEngines'', the biggest box office bomb in history, coupled with the current UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic it's likely to stay that way for the forseeable future.

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* DevelopmentHell: The remake was announced in 2008. As of 2020, it's yet to begin production and 2008 as it's a pet project of Christian Rivers, who has the unenviable distinction of being the director of ''Film/MortalEngines'', the biggest box office bomb in history, coupled with the current UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic it's likely to stay that way for the forseeable future.history. A decade later and nothing has come of it.

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* DevelopmentHell: The remake was announced in 2008. As of 2020, it's yet to begin production and as it's a pet project of Christian Rivers, who has the unenviable distinction of being the director of ''Film/MortalEngines'', the biggest box office bomb in history, coupled with the current UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic it's likely to stay that way for the forseeable future.

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* DawsonCasting: Wing Commander Guy Gibson is played by Richard Todd, who was 36. Gibson was 24.
* DevelopmentHell: The remake was announced in 2008. As of 2020, it's yet to begin production and as it's a pet project of Christian Rivers, who has the unenviable distinction of being the director of ''Film/MortalEngines'', the biggest box office bomb in history, coupled with the current UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic it's likely to stay that way for the forseeable future.future.
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* DevelopmentHell: The remake was announced in 2008. As of 2019, it's yet to begin production.

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* DevelopmentHell: The remake was announced in 2008. As of 2019, 2020, it's yet to begin production.production and as it's a pet project of Christian Rivers, who has the unenviable distinction of being the director of ''Film/MortalEngines'', the biggest box office bomb in history, coupled with the current UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic it's likely to stay that way for the forseeable future.
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* DevelopmentHell: The remake was announced in 2008. As of 2019, it's yet to begin production.

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* DevelopmentHell: The remake was announced in 2008. As of 2019, it's yet to begin production.
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