SpielbergHanks producing third WW2 miniseries

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  • January 23, 2013 at 1:56 pm #112211
    FlakBait
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    HBO confirmed Friday that it is developing a third World War II miniseries from Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg.

    Joining an oeuvre that already includes 2001’s Band of Brothers and 2010’s The Pacific, the untitled miniseries will explore the aerial wars through the eyes of enlisted men of the Eighth Air Force — known as the men of the Mighty Eighth. The project will use as its source material historian Donald L. Miller’s nonfiction tome Masters of the Air: America’s Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany.

    Spielberg, Hanks and Gary Goetzman again will serve as executive producers via Hanks and Goetzman’s Playtone and Spielberg’s Amblin Television. HBO executives have been in discussions about a third World War II miniseries for several months. Justified creator Graham Yost, who wrote several episodes of Brothers and Pacific, recently told The Hollywood Reporter that he was eager to reteam with Hanks and Spielberg on another WWII epic. And now that the source material has been optioned, the project can move into development. Additional source material might be added later.

    http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/hbo-developing-third-wwii-miniseries-413632

    I hope it’s as good as the last two series, would still like to see something about the American submarine war against Japan.

    January 24, 2013 at 9:19 am #112215
    Robert McNay
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    I hope it’s as good as the last two series, would still like to see something about the American submarine war against Japan.

    If my grand uncle, who served aboard fleet boats from 42-46 is to be believed, it might be hard. He said duty was 95% boredom, 5% crappin’ in your pants.

    January 24, 2013 at 12:18 pm #112223
    Lingster
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    My family has been lucky in that the big wars caught us between generations: my grandfathers were just a bit too young for WWI and just a bit too old for WWII, although both were civilian employees of the War Department during the latter. One of them saw some horror in that role and suffered from PTSD for much of the rest of his life. My father was too young for WW2 and just barely for Korea, but had concluded his service well before Vietnam heated up.

    I think the Spanish-American War was the last time anybody in my family saw combat, and the last of those men died a few years before I was born.

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