HBO enlists Marines for ‘Pacific’
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Loading ...First I've heard of this! If it turns out to be as good as "Band of Brothers" it should be another awesome ten hours of film. FTA:
Former "24" co-star James Badge Dale, Val Lauren and Joe Mazzello will play the three Marines at the center of the 10-hour saga, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Filming is scheduled to begin in August in Australia.The miniseries, based in part on books by WWII veterans Eugene Sledge and Robert Leckie, is a companion piece for HBO's "Band of Brothers," which centered on the European theater from D-Day until the end of the war. "Band of Brothers" executive producers Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg are doing the same jobs for "The Pacific," as are co-exec producer Tony To and writer-producer Graham Yost.
Dale will play Leckie in the project, with Mazzello taking the role of Sledge and Lauren playing fellow Marine John Basilone. The miniseries will follow their stories from the first engagement with Japanese forces at Guadalcanal through the intense fighting at places like Iwo Jima and Okinawa and their return home after V-J Day in 1945.
'Band of Brothers' had its weak moments but overall was a moving series. I only hope they can pull off the same thing. Hopefully they'll give proper honors to the guys who fought on that side of the world where Eastwood has done them a bit the opposite in my opinion.
Link: HBO Sends Trio to 'Pacific' - '24' vet James Badge Dale among leads - Zap2it
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My hope is that the creators of this series get the story correct and don’t take creative license with the awesome story of our WWII Marines, Sailor, Coast Guardsmen (they operated the landing craft for the Marines) Soldiers and Airman. What they did was spectacular enough without Hollywood’s interpretation of the historical fact. Make no mistake about it, if it was not for our men and women of that generation we would have a different flag flying over our capitol. As to Mr. Eastwood’s story, Letters from Iwo Jima, filmed in 2006 about the battle of Iwo Jima told from the perspective of the Japanese. I do not believe the story detracts from what the U.S. forces accomplished. Even though Japan was an adversary in that war, they fought magnificently. Their sacrifice for their country was no less impressive than ours. I am an American Marine. Being so I am connected through the brotherhood of my, our, Corps to those Marines who sacrificed and gave the greatest gift a generation can give to the next. Liberty. I am awed by those men and women who planned, supported and executed actions in WWII. I also had a family member bayoneted in his hospital bed by a Japanese soldier in the fall of Corregidor.