If you love HBO's Band of Brothers,then don't dare miss a new war movie called The Pacific, 10 part mini series in HBO. This will be the epic and highly-anticipated mini series and also the most expensive HBO mini series in history, they used USD $200 million for the productions of this movie that is based on the true stories of Marines in the Pacific Theater of World War II. The Pacific will premiere its two back to back episode on April 3, 2010 at 9PM, Saturday, in HBO and HBO HD. It will be shown first in Asia here in the Philippines, less than three weeks after it's US premiere. (read more below)
The might trio - Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg and Gary Goetzman, the mighty trio as I call them for the creative team behind Emmy® and Golden Globe®-winning HBO miniseries Band of Brothers, they are back as executive producers for The Pacific.
The Pacific focuses on the story of 3 US Marines that was sent in the Pacific Theater during World War 2.
Rober Leckie (James Badge Dale)
Eugene Sledge (Joe Mazzello)
John Basilone (Jon Seda)
The story revolves not only about war, but also the life of each US Marines on how they survived and died with their clash with the Japanese army in different location in the Pacific - like in the haunted jungles of Guadacanal, through the impenetrable rain forests of Cape Gloucester, across the blasted coral strongholds of Peleliu, up the bloody sand terraces of Iwo Jima, through the killing fields of Okinawa, to the triumphant, yet uneasy return home after V-J Day. This war action occurs after the 24 hours assault of the Japanese in Pearl Harbor.
The Pacific is based in the books of "With Old Breed" by Eugene B. 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), with additional material from Red Blood, Black Sand by Chuck Tatum, China Marine by Eugene B. Sledge, as well as original interviews conducted by the filmmakers. Continuing the World War II oral history work begun by his father Stephen E. Ambrose (author of the book Band of Brothers) is Hugh Ambrose, who serves as a consultant on the miniseries.
While Band of Brothers followed the experiences of one company of Army paratroopers in the European Theater of Operations, THE PACIFIC depicts the war a world away, in the Pacific Theater of Operations, which encompassed most of the Pacific Ocean and its islands, including the Philippines, the Netherlands East Indies, New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. This miniseries follows the intersecting odysseys of three men of the 1st Marine Division; an infantry division nicknamed “The Old Breed” for its position as the oldest and largest active duty division of the US Marine Corps. With the support of their fellow Marines and comrades in the Navy, Air Force and Army, the 1st Marine Division was at the forefront of many of hardest-fought campaigns of the Pacific War.
