HBO Developing Third WWII Miniseries with Hanks and Spielberg
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Gum_Bercules — 13 years ago(February 04, 2013 11:07 PM)
If you like WW1 there is an australian mini series pseudo documenting the great war from the australian perspective. It was made in 1985 with no CGI and on a shoestring budget, but it's still quite well done considering, well worth checking out if you're into the BoB or Pacific mini series styles. The only thing you have to get past are our whacky accents probably.
It's called ANZACS if you want to look it up. (anzac - Australian New Zealand Army Corps)
I reckon it'll be worth your while to give it a go, but I'm an aussie myself so I'm naturally biased to anything that shows us in a good light lol -
blacklabelkk — 13 years ago(February 05, 2013 03:40 AM)
Eh, thanks for the suggestion but I'm not very educated on WWI which is kind of why I wanted them to do it. Anything before the 90's I have trouble getting into and one of the main reasons I love SPR,BoB, and TP was because of the special effects and realism. If it has any of that I might enjoy it but it's an 80's series, so probably not lol, thanks though.
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Yuffie_Kisaragi — 13 years ago(March 26, 2013 03:00 PM)
I'm looking forward to it but I hope they decide to leave the soap opera style drama out of the new series. In The Pacific, the dramacentric soap opera style episode 3 was utter dreadful.
When I first watched the series, it killed my interest. It's only until recently when I bought the boxset and rewatched the series. So yeah, I hope they learn from their mistakes and make it Band of Brothers but in the air. -
wymanv — 12 years ago(August 25, 2013 11:02 AM)
Ten percent of all US casualties suffered during the Second World War were with the 8th AAF. It seems appropriate to tell the story. I think Korea deserves to be covered in a similar mini-series format but I don't think this group is interested in or would be appropriate to do it.
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Reminisce_PartOne — 11 years ago(June 10, 2014 02:00 PM)
Ah yeah, hadn't thought about that. Yeah, kind of seems like the fitting third such project.. completing the trilogy of US troops on the ground in WWII. Europe, then Pacific, then Africa/Italy.
I would love to see something in which Henry J. Guarnere is portrayed, preferably as a main character. I've been to and photographed his memorial cross actually. -
Chelios24 — 12 years ago(February 08, 2014 03:17 PM)
I worry about this. As a movie, great. But I'm not sure how cinematic air battles would be for ten episodes. The human story is what is important, but when they're not in flight there's less danger and probably less conflict. Runs the risk of getting soap opera-like.
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mistamajestyk — 12 years ago(February 25, 2014 03:42 PM)
I think you can still put out stories from WW2 and make them fresh, especially in the mini-series format.
With the budgets and production values that HBO was able to get on the previous two, I'd love to see a series from the German or Japanese perspective, including a collaboration with directors from those countries for certain episodes.
They could do a mini-series on the Battle of the Bulge, alone, covering such incidents as the Malmedy massacre, and its retaliation from US troops, as well as the capture and executions of the eleven black American soldiers from the 333rd artillery battalion, which would make an interesting episode.
The Italy and Africa campaigns never seem to get much coverage, and would make for great viewing, IMO.
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seh67 — 12 years ago(April 02, 2014 06:47 PM)
There is a series showing WW2 from the German perspective. It's called Generation War and is now in limited release. It comes to DVD and VOD on May 6th. It has a high rating here on IMDb and has got some very good reviews. It's been called the German Band Of Brothers. You can check out the trailer on You Tube.
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michaelannamarie — 11 years ago(April 27, 2014 09:20 PM)
I think they'll do a great job & I cant wait to see it. Don't forget, about 40 million people died in ww2 & there are lots of compelling stories still to be told. As long as they're done well, I don't care.
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nickm2 — 11 years ago(April 29, 2014 05:57 PM)
Another interesting factoid of masters of the air is that it did have a good amount of info from the German pilots's side as well.I hope their stories are also included.
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jd-276 — 11 years ago(May 25, 2014 06:18 AM)
This would be a distortion on a grand scale if it were presented that way.
America did not decimate "there
(sic)
air force" and certainly not on her own. Germany was fighting a war on
two
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gravelandx88 — 11 years ago(May 26, 2014 07:42 AM)
Yes, I know that. They lost some of there best pilots in an earlier campaign, Battle of Britain. The rest died over a period of time. Since America possessed a bigger air force than Soviets. An they were bombing Occupied-France and Germany 24/7. There had to be a bigger Luftwaffe presents in the West than the East. Therefore, the Luftwaffe squadrons that were facing the West were decimated.
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jd-276 — 11 years ago(May 28, 2014 12:09 AM)
America possessed a bigger air force than Germany
on paper
. That actually isn't very relevant because German troops still needed close air support in a much larger theatre than the West. There were far more German troops in the East and they needed to be both supplied and protected.
Take a close look at where the majority of casualties occurred.
By the time of what is usually known as "The Battle of Germany" and "The Battle of Berlin", the Luftwaffe was pretty much out of exhausted and the reason for this was fuel. There was also the fact that their airfields were being so heavily bombed that many of their aircraft were being destroyed on the ground.
That's not to say that USAAF and RAF fighters did not have influence on the outcome or did not shoot them down - they did - but if you're looking for Sergeant York-style adventures, they'd be difficult to find. There weren't that many left in Germany in 1944/45. Operation
Bodenplatte
revealed just how many fighters were left to defend the Western end of Germany and with the Luftwaffe suffering something like 25% casualties and losing quite a few pilots in the process, it made an already depleted air force that much less effective.
A better subject would be the bombing of the Ploesti oil fields in Romania. Carried out entirely by the USAAF, it was probably the most important series of raids of WWII and resulted in the aforementioned fuel shortage. Schweinfurt would be another good choice.