"The Pacific" - Biggest Production in TV History
Canadaka @ Mon Jun 22, 2009 1:29 pm
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“Pacific” is an upcoming World War II miniseries produced by HBO and Dreamworks and is the successor to HBO’s mega-hit, Band of Brothers. It is scheduled for a television release on HBO in March 2010. “Pacific” is based on the books “With the Old Breed,” by Eugene Sledge, which was hailed by historian Paul Fussell as “one of the finest memoirs to emerge from any war,” and “Helmet for My Pillow,” by Robert Leckie (recipient of the Marine Corps Combat Correspondents Annual Award), as well as original interviews conducted by the filmmakers and Hugh Ambrose. Continuing the World War II oral history work begun by his father Stephen E. Ambrose (author of the book “Band of Brothers”), Hugh Ambrose serves as a consultant on the miniseries.
I hadn't heard of this until a friend sent me a link today. Its looks like basically Band of Brothers in the Pacific. Produced by Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg again.
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International TV networks have begun to purchase HBO’s The Pacific for a March 2010 release. A total of 10 episodes at 60minutes each will be shown on all the major networks ranging from the UK, to Germany, Asia, Austria, Switzerland and beyond. HBO billed the production as, “the biggest thing HBO has ever done” but also “the biggest production in the history of television,” given the scale and scope of the miniseries. It’s like making 10 major movies at once.
Here is a link to the trailer:
http://www.pacificfans.com/trailer.mov
More Info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pacific_(miniseries)
xerxes @ Mon Jun 22, 2009 1:39 pm
Sounds great. I guess I'll have to keep HBO for a bit longer now.
canuckns @ Mon Jun 22, 2009 2:35 pm
Looks good.
Bodah @ Mon Jun 22, 2009 2:39 pm
Should be awesome. I loved BoB.
herbie @ Mon Jun 22, 2009 8:28 pm
Will HBO Canada run it before 2013?
Canadaka @ Mon Jun 22, 2009 8:51 pm
*cough* bittorrent *cough*
SprCForr @ Mon Jun 22, 2009 9:40 pm
Speaking of BoB:
Shifty Powers passed away.
http://www.roanoke.com/news/roanoke/wb/208832
Scape @ Mon Mar 22, 2010 7:53 pm
http://www.hbocanada.com/thepacific/
Ep 2 was awesome!!!!
Can't wait for the next one.
Lemmy @ Mon Mar 22, 2010 8:42 pm
SUPERB production in every way. I'm going to start reading "Helmet for my Pillow" on the weekend.
TattoodGirl @ Mon Mar 22, 2010 8:52 pm
Saw it last night in Portland....Brilliant!!!!!
I couldnt wait for it, my kids and I loved Band of Brothers and this episode I watched lived up to my expectations...brutal, moving and real. Brilliant...I encourage folks to watch
herbie @ Mon Mar 22, 2010 8:55 pm
Recommended Sunday night show. Excellent so far.
xerxes @ Mon Mar 22, 2010 9:13 pm
Same here. I was a bit tepid about it after the firt episode, but the second was excellent. Can't wait for the rest of the series.
Wullu @ Tue Mar 23, 2010 6:15 am
Meh. Entertaining, but no where near as good as BoB to this point.
There just are not any characters to really give a damn about.
William Sadler as the legendary "Chesty" Puller is the only one that interests me so far.
Freakinoldguy @ Tue Mar 23, 2010 9:49 am
Wullu Wullu:
Meh. Entertaining, but no where near as good as BoB to this point.
There just are not any characters to really give a damn about.
William Sadler as the legendary "Chesty" Puller is the only one that interests me so far.
There just are not any characters to really give a damn about.
William Sadler as the legendary "Chesty" Puller is the only one that interests me so far.
I agree. The scope of the Pacific War doesn't lend itself well to the formula that worked for Band Of Brothers.
Also, we haven't seen any of these characters develop from Basic training into Marines. They were either already in the Corps or after they said they enlisted the next time we saw them was on Guadacanal.
It's a really good series but up to this point it hasn't really been character driven like BoB.
Lemmy @ Tue Mar 23, 2010 9:59 am
Freakinoldguy Freakinoldguy:
I agree. The scope of the Pacific War doesn't lend itself well to the formula that worked for Band Of Brothers.
Also, we haven't seen any of these characters develop from Basic training into Marines. They were either already in the Corps or after they said they enlisted the next time we saw them was on Guadacanal.
It's a really good series but up to this point it hasn't really been character driven like BoB.
Also, we haven't seen any of these characters develop from Basic training into Marines. They were either already in the Corps or after they said they enlisted the next time we saw them was on Guadacanal.
It's a really good series but up to this point it hasn't really been character driven like BoB.
It's hard to do a character-driven mini-series about combat with such high casualty rates as the War in the Pacific. So few men survived to fight in multiple battles. I thought the quality of the battle scenes has been far superior on the Pacific, so far, compared to anything filmed on BoB.
Yes, BoB was a masterpiece, but I don't see a need to compare the two. I find the role of the US Marine in the Pacific war much more compelling than paratroopers in Europe. Their odds of surviving were so much longer.