HBO Developing Third WWII Miniseries with Hanks and Spielberg
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Reminisce_PartOne — 11 years ago(June 10, 2014 01:52 PM)
Excited. Love the Band of Brothers/Pacific format.. only wish it had been being done for years before like since the 90s or 80s or 70s or hech even 60s.. but then veterans weren't really talking about it on film going that far back.
I had previously thought about and loved the idea of a war in the skies mini-series, however I do feel like this kind of thing would benefit from another one or two perspectives such as maybe other characters who are ground troops (don't have to be US, could be British or French resistance or some such, depending on where this will be set) or such as the navy (for example it could be a Memphis Belle meets Das Boot kinda' thing).
Alternatively it could have a The Great Escape element to it, if one/some of the characters were to become POWs and attempt an escape. Obviously this depends on if any of the men who will be portrayed did in fact become POWs. Another alternative is any men who were shot down, well the story of their fight for survival on land after going down could be told. And again, then you've got a more dynamic drama (not all the action taking place in the skies).
Oh also, hopefully they will have some archive footage of interviews with veterans that they can use, because unfortunately it's getting to be so long ago now that there are sadly so few of them left. I also loved the Tom Hanks narrated mini-history lessons at the beginning of each episode of The Pacific.. Band of Brothers should have had them! They should make some for the Band of Brothers episodes and attach them to the start of each episode on a new dvd. -
MightyTiki — 11 years ago(June 11, 2014 11:18 AM)
A lot can happen between now and then, it could end up on the floor and never make it to production or to the public. I read the book, it's a good read regardless or not this series gets made.
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chakobsa — 11 years ago(October 04, 2014 04:34 AM)
It's now October 2014 and I can't find any new info on this upcoming series.
All news articles are from early 2013, so no new news in nearly 2 years.
Does anyone know if it's still going ahead?
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domester82 — 9 years ago(April 16, 2016 12:12 AM)
I'd like to see a third Spielberg/Hanks series in the North African theatre. Maybe following the Big Red One division? Up from Africa into Sicily?
Or an aerial warfare show.
Or maybe WW1. We need a good WW1 mini series -
ayf_1983 — 9 years ago(June 14, 2016 07:52 PM)
I felt The Pacific should have done the three stories in different branches instead of all Marines. They could have picked one Marine, one naval aviator, one submariner. There's no shortage of books written after the war they could have adapted.
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volkstraum — 9 years ago(July 04, 2016 11:33 PM)
Late to the party.
I would like to see a series about the Italian campaign. The opposing forces were evenly matched there.
I read a book on Monte Cassino when I was in school. Forget the title, but there must be other biographies and such that could lend to a miniseries.
I couldn't believe when I read his filmography that he played a toilet (no joke) in According to Jim -
ghostly_host — 9 years ago(August 01, 2016 12:16 PM)
I'd also like to see a mini-series about the North Africa/Sicily/Italy part of the war with the last episode being just before D-Day. In the film Patton we got to see a little bit but it was mostly about the General himself. It would be cool to revisit that but with focus on the common soldiers or tank crews in the Band of Brothers/The Pacific style with much more realism and drama.