Why Is HBO’s Miniseries ‘The Pacific’ Going to be so Good
Do you like miniseries? Do you love the drama, suspense and thrill of not knowing how a series will end? Have you seen Band Of Brothers? If you like watching thriller and action packed series that keep you on the edge your seat guessing what will happen next, then you need to make room in your calendar to watch The Pacific. Produced by the dynamic duo of Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg, the action packed miniseries will start airing next month –March 14, 2010- on HBO and will be available online shortly after.
The story behind The Pacific is based on true stories and events that occurred during the Second World War. The inspiration for the ten hour miniseries were gotten from two books: Helmet for My Pillow by Robert Leckie and With the Old Breed by Eugene Sledge. In particular, it will show the critical role played by the United States in determining the chain of events that occurred in the Pacific Theatre of Operations. For those who don’t know about it, the Pacific Theatre of Operations was an area where the United States army was stationed in the Pacific and from where specific commands were issued that determined the outcome of the results in the Pacific during the war.
If you intend to watch The Pacific, you should be ready for some really touching scenes as it will be a surreal depicting of the battles of Guadalcanal, Peleliu, Okinawa, Cape Gloucester among many others. Will The Pacific be better than Band of Brothers –the first miniseries that Steven Spielberg did with Tom Hanks? Only time will tell. But to get a feel of what you’ll experience when you watch the pacific, hear what one of the Executive producers -Steven Spielberg- has to say:
“We did give The Pacific with a different look. There was a very strong, desaturated quality to Band of Brothers. In The Pacific, it was blue skies. They weren’t fighting in overcast weather. Sometimes monsoons would come in and it was terribly rainy and muddy and you couldn’t see the hand in front of your face, but it was a blue-sky war. It was a hot, dry, humid blue-sky war. So, there are more vivid colors in The Pacific than we ever had in Band of Brothers because that was the way it was, when you read the books and talk to the survivors of those campaigns”.
When asked how long it took him to get the miniseries ready and available for the premier, he said:
“I would say years. Longer than I actually remember. It was inevitable that we would do The Pacific with HBO because there was such an overwhelming response, not only from the general public that got very involved in Band of Brothers, but we got so much positive mail. We got so many letters of veterans from the Pacific Theater of Operations, asking us if we could acquit their stories the way we acquitted the stories of the European Theater of Operations.”
To get a feel of the intense action and thrill, you can watch the pacific trailers right here. So, tighten your seat belts, clear your calendars and make out time to watch the Pacific come March 14th, 2010.
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