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For those of us who enjoyed "Band of Brothers", here is another upcoming project from Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg, and HBO (I got this from eonline):
"Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg are gearing up for another tour of duty.
The Emmy-winning producing team behind HBO's critically acclaimed epic Band of Brothers, which charted American soldiers' heroism against the Nazis in Europe during World War II, are switching theaters to the Pacific and Imperial Japan.
According to the trades, Hanks and his Playtone producing partner Gary Goetzman are reuniting with the Saving Private Ryan director to mount a new 10-part WWII miniseries, dubbed for now "Untitled World War II Pacific Theater Project," which is on the fast track at DreamWorks.
Like Band of Brothers, the new mini-series will channel the scope and spirit of that award-winning docudrama by focusing on a battalion of soldiers through America's island assault against the Japanese, which culminated in the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The story will also have a similar $100 million-plus budget, but unlike Brothers, which was based on famed historian Stephen Ambrose's bestselling book following the trials of Easy Company, the 506th Airborne regiment after landing in France on D-Day, the new project will be an original work.
Spielberg, Hanks, and Goetzman are reportedly eyeing scribe Bruce McKenna, who won a Writers Guild of America award for penning several episodes of Band of Brothers, to take charge of the writing team for the Pacific campaign."
This is indeed welcome news to those of us who feel that the Pacific Theater has been unjustly neglected in the modern era of war epics. Hopefully this will put my bad memories of "The Thin Red Line", "Pearl Harbor", and "Windtalkers" behind me.
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For those of us who enjoyed "Band of Brothers", here is another upcoming project from Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg, and HBO (I got this from eonline):
"Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg are gearing up for another tour of duty.
The Emmy-winning producing team behind HBO's critically acclaimed epic Band of Brothers, which charted American soldiers' heroism against the Nazis in Europe during World War II, are switching theaters to the Pacific and Imperial Japan.
According to the trades, Hanks and his Playtone producing partner Gary Goetzman are reuniting with the Saving Private Ryan director to mount a new 10-part WWII miniseries, dubbed for now "Untitled World War II Pacific Theater Project," which is on the fast track at DreamWorks.
Like Band of Brothers, the new mini-series will channel the scope and spirit of that award-winning docudrama by focusing on a battalion of soldiers through America's island assault against the Japanese, which culminated in the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The story will also have a similar $100 million-plus budget, but unlike Brothers, which was based on famed historian Stephen Ambrose's bestselling book following the trials of Easy Company, the 506th Airborne regiment after landing in France on D-Day, the new project will be an original work.
Spielberg, Hanks, and Goetzman are reportedly eyeing scribe Bruce McKenna, who won a Writers Guild of America award for penning several episodes of Band of Brothers, to take charge of the writing team for the Pacific campaign."
This is indeed welcome news to those of us who feel that the Pacific Theater has been unjustly neglected in the modern era of war epics. Hopefully this will put my bad memories of "The Thin Red Line", "Pearl Harbor", and "Windtalkers" behind me.
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Sir, you already made a thread excatly like this one, except a little differnece in the title.
Here's the link:
http://forums.ubi.com/messages/messa...ld_ot&id=zxqjg
Please only limit yourself to one thread of the same discussion.
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i never saw the other post but i did want to comment on this project. i think its an awesome idea. i'm wondering if its gonna be a docudrama like Band of Brothers. i hope it starts with pearl harbor too. i didnt even think about it ending with hiroshima and nagasaki. that would be kinda cool in a genocidal way...
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It's there. I replied to it...
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Now I have to get HBO....
"Brave Rifles!"
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Why do you think HBO is a premium channel???? Movies, Award-winning series, pornos.... How good can it get?
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Definitely going to have to ask an American from my clan or something to mail me the DVD set... had to wait a while for the first one to come out in Canada for the original.
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Lol, I don't know where you live, but nothings mailed FROM the states. My father is mailing me LOTR:TT in a few days from the Philipines.
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durdd wrote:
- Why do you think HBO is a premium channel????
- Movies, Award-winning series, pornos.... How good
- can it get?
pr0n? pfft, its so soft you can refer to it as a French "art" movie
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