By stephen stallebrass (Drstallebrass) (62.253.32.5) on Friday, September 19, 2003 - 09:40 am:

Hi:

Anybody heard anymore news about the new Band of Brothers mini-series to be set in the Pacific? Theres not a lot on the net about it.

I heard there is some major filming going on in the Isle of Wight, England. Its supposed to be a WW2 Mini-series with a big budget comparable to BoB! could the two be linked? Are they one and the same?

I'll look into it a bit more!

Kind Regards

Steve Stallebrass
England

By Marigold Papa (Marigold) (203.160.183.79) on Friday, September 19, 2003 - 09:59 pm:

I think i heard something about Spielberg working on the war in the pacific during ww2, but no updates on that one yet. Is it true Tom Cruise will be the lead star????

gold

By stephen stallebrass (Drstallebrass) (62.253.32.5) on Saturday, September 20, 2003 - 07:56 am:

Hi:

I hope not!!! I quite like Cruise but not for something as epic and as serious a subject as a Pacific Band of Brothers, I think he would dilute, cheapen and cheesify it.

They should get the casting people from BoB to cast the new one if they haven't already. I think their success was in using fairly unknown actors. This way they bring along no ego nor does the name(s) become bigger then the show, the story or the message that is meant to come across. And because they are relatively unknown they give it their absolute everything. They're also more raw and natural. JMHO!

Kind Regards

Steve Stallebrass
England

By irene vrinte (Gijoe) (213.102.51.140) on Saturday, September 20, 2003 - 01:32 pm:

hi guys

if you check out www.imdb.com and look under steven spielberg, you'll find that he is indeed working on a ww2 in the pacific project. no actors mentioned yet, only that bruce mckenna is one of the script writers!


regards,
irene

By Penil Chhiba (Penil) (80.225.86.93) on Tuesday, September 23, 2003 - 01:45 pm:

I'm delighted that a series based on the pacific war is(or is it?) being produced. The war against the Japanese has often been overshadowed by that against Germany, which is rather disrespectful to those veterans who fought there for it can easily be said the Japanese were far more barbaric in their disregard of international law and atrocities that they committed. What's even more remarkable is that in the years that have passed they still refuse to apologise for the terrible crimes that they committed.

By keith suvara (Keith) (194.128.29.93) on Tuesday, September 23, 2003 - 01:48 pm:

Fron E! Online...

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.
The trio is expected to meet with him and strategize over the various episodes once McKenna finishes up adapting The Perfect Mile, helmed by Frank Marshall, for Universal Pictures and Spyglass Entertainment. The writer is also hard at work plotting Hands of Shang Chi, another Marvel Comics' adventure for DreamWorks.
Band of Brothers earned HBO an impressive 19 Emmy nominations, and took home six awards, including outstanding miniseries.
The mini-series was also a high watermark for Hanks' Playtone Productions, which seems to be staking a claim on the long lost art of the mini-series.

By Marigold Papa (Marigold) (203.160.183.79) on Tuesday, September 23, 2003 - 10:02 pm:

Thanks for that keith.

gold

By Joshua Eggleston (Jegg9032) (24.70.95.203) on Wednesday, September 24, 2003 - 01:41 pm:

It is good to hear that they are taking on another similar project. However we will all watch this with very high expectations and quite possibly be very dissapointed.

My idea would be for them to expand the current mini-series. For example they could reunite the cast for 2 or 4 more episodes that start with E-Company before they all entered the army, and then end with them all returning home. This would further the development of these characters and would undoubtedly be entertaining. Just an idea

By Penil Chhiba (Penil) (80.225.57.106) on Wednesday, September 24, 2003 - 08:41 pm:

Well my belief is that the series may resemble the 'thin red line', which itself a is a very good movie. However, we must simply wait and see

By stephen stallebrass (Drstallebrass) (62.253.32.5) on Thursday, September 25, 2003 - 05:24 am:

Hi:

Joshua that sounds like a great idea to me, and they definately have there work cut out if we are to love this new untitled project as much as Band of Brothers.

Kind Regards

Steve Stallebrass
England

By Flynn (192.169.41.40) on Tuesday, September 30, 2003 - 05:30 am:

All,

Just caught a discovery channel two-hour documentary on James Cameron's expedition of the Bismarck. Very much titanic-like documentary and Cameron's enthusiastic participation leads me to believe another titanic may be on the way. Has anyone heard about this?

Don't know about you guys but this would be one worth watching, and I can assume Celine Dion won't be on the soudtrack (at least I hope so).

Flynn

By Flynn (192.169.41.40) on Tuesday, September 30, 2003 - 05:32 am:

All,

Just caught a discovery channel two-hour documentary on James Cameron's expedition of the Bismarck. Very much titanic-like documentary and Cameron's enthusiastic participation leads me to believe another titanic may be on the way. Has anyone heard about this?

Don't know about you guys but this would be one worth watching, and I can assume Celine Dion won't be on the soudtrack (at least I hope so).

Flynn

By christine (Tendmd) (202.57.112.230) on Wednesday, October 01, 2003 - 01:26 pm:

the documentary was inspired by the movie as james cameron was filming it. coz he himself was the one who took the underwater footages of the real titanic that was used in the movie. he was so fascinated by the site and the ship and wants to explore more the secret of the legendary ship. james cameron became the explorer just like the one played by bill paxton in the movie.

i think, what you are referring to as the titanic 2 was that a certain company was interested or actually building a complete replica of the real RMS Titanic up to the exact type of dishes used, the wallpapers, carpeting, furnitures, etc. but they were making some changes in the design of the original ship such as the ship will be much longer and will add life saving devices to prevent the same type of disaster to occur as this ship will be used commercially. (correct me if i was wrong about this)

christine

By Flynn (192.169.41.40) on Thursday, October 02, 2003 - 04:26 am:

Thanks Christine,

Actually I was wondering if anyone knows / heard about a movie about the massive German WWII Battleship, the Bismarck. James Cameron was exploring it in the dicumentary which leads me to deduce that he may be making a movie about it.

Interesting about the replica Titanic 2 though.

Flynn

By stephen stallebrass (Drstallebrass) (62.253.32.5) on Thursday, October 02, 2003 - 08:09 am:

Hi:

A feature film about the Bismark would be great. Just as long as it aint to Hollywoodised and turned into something it aint. I mean not turned into a love story or something.

Although this new Untitled World War II Pacific Theater Project is going to be an original work I think, and of this I am absolutely sure, the author Bruce McKenna will do a great job. Going by his reputation and from his past work I think he'll write this with the respect it deserves. It's got to be and is bound to be based on real researched events and facts.

Plus when you consider the Spielberg, Hanks, and Goetzman trio, Dreamworks and Playtone Collaboration putting it together I'm super confident it'll be as epic as Band of Brothers.

I just can't wait.

Kind Regards

Steve Stallebrass
England

By Redrock (213.196.137.175) on Thursday, October 02, 2003 - 03:02 pm:

It's not a 10-part mini series,

it's just a 20-part mini series !!!!

(imdb.com)

By christine (Tendmd) (202.57.112.182) on Friday, October 03, 2003 - 09:37 am:

flyn,

sorry, i didn't specify which ship i was referring to in some part of my post, titanic or bismarck. i got confused about the two.

christine

Please visit a sponsor and help keep this site free!