Stax here with a special Independence Day treat for you, a look at the screenplay for Windtalkers! This 117-page draft by John Rice and Joe Batteer (Blown Away) is dated January 28th, 2000. The film ...

Windtalkers is a 2002 American war film directed and co-produced by John Woo. The film is centered around the real story of Navajo code talkers during World War II. Released on June 14, 2002, in the ...

THE BEST thing about John Woo's "Windtalkers" is what could have been. During World War II, the Japanese were breaking American codes with such alarming regularity, it was crucial to find an ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. John Woo is talking up the legacy of his 2002 WWII drama "Windtalkers." The acclaimed action director revisited the film in a wide ...

Windtalkers is a Second World War melodrama about a broken soul. But it strains to be a heroic saga about racial healing under fire. Director John Woo’s desire to make this movie a true epic ...

Mike Smith is an avid filmgoer from New York who loves to hear his own voice - luckily his work as a podcaster on FilmBook allows him to do just that. Mike graduated from The College of Saint Rose in ...

Here's a not-so-divine secret of the ya-ya brotherhood: We boys like war movies. We like it when stuff gets blown up, enemies get mowed down by heroes with tommy guns, and at the end, that's our flag ...

NOTE: These interviews divulge key plot points of the upcoming Windtalkers film. In other words: look out for the spoilers! It's a brisk weekday afternoon in San Francisco when I find myself seated in ...

On paper, Windtalkers looked so promising. John Woo returns to a war zone for the first time since 1990’s brilliant Bullet In The Head, armed with good actors (see below, plus Peter Stormare, Mark ...