HBO’s The Pacific Trailer: Band of Brothers 2?
HBO’s Band of Brothers was one of the first made-for-TV events that I can remember truly elevating television to the quality of a Hollywood feature film. Together with The Sopranos, it kind of put HBO on the map and helped turn them into the cable giant that they are today. Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks have been talking for a while now about a spiritual sequel to Band of Brothers, and it looks like it is finally almost upon us.
The Pacific is another HBO mini-series about World War II, this time focusing on a group of marines in the Pacific Theater of Operations — specifically Japan. Whereas Band of Brothers had some familiar faces sprinkled throughout, the cast of The Pacific looks to be made up entirely of lesser known TV actors (which is fine by me). The first trailer aired before the season 2 premiere of True Blood, and it looks like it will be just as epic as Band of Brothers (and yes, maybe a little bit cheesy too). The Pacific is expected to air sometime in March 2010; check out the promo after the jump and see what you think.
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It looks as good as Band of Brothers! A few things I hope they represent in the movie.. Pearl Harbour, the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and some different nations mixed throughout. I know its American-centric but itd be cool to show some Aussies defending against the Japs in Indonesia and what not. I can’t remember if BoB had poms in it as well, or Russians but it would be cool to get the sense that its a WORLD WAR, not just yanks..
Posted by AdamH on June 24th, 2009Anyways, looks very fucken cool!
The little kid from Jurrasic Park must have performed his balls off in auditions to get the leading role in this series.
Posted by spider79 on June 24th, 2009OORAH!!!
Posted by Shut-Up Ed on June 24th, 2009awesome! Band of Brother is one of my favourites
Posted by Niklas on June 24th, 2009I am so pumped it looks amazing. I am sure they will do it right but how can they squeeze so much of the Pacific into 10 episodes ? cant wait……
Posted by goose on June 24th, 2009I’m not sure if the shot of whiskey I took prior to watching the trailer just hit me or if what I saw stirred something in me. Having been a fan of Band of Brothers and watching it through at least three times, I am most excited for this.
Posted by Matt Hook on June 24th, 2009The best part about these is that gives you time to get to know some of the characters and also allows you to invest in the story. These would never work as a 2 hour movie but the fact that the quality is as good as the movies is what knocks these out of the park. I can not wait. Sign me up. Off topic – I would like to see a vietnam one. Even if it were after the war with flash backs. I love this war stuff when it is played realistic.
Posted by Big Hungry on June 24th, 2009The best shot in this tailer is the straight overview shot from above near the end. Wow…. now I have to watch it agian
Posted by Big Hungry on June 24th, 2009I thought band of brothers was brilliant, if a bit american-centric. Acting, music, battle scenes all good. And the battle scenes were very down to earth and realistic, not glorified like most crap these days. The only thing that annoys me is that its about the yanks again, who seem to think they were only ones to fight in the war. To see an eastern front series would be brilliant, maybe from the german side?
Posted by Nath on July 4th, 2009“To see an eastern front series would be brilliant, maybe from the german side?”
Now THAT would be something.
Posted by Dan on August 10th, 2009“To see an eastern front series would be brilliant, maybe from the german side?”
Posted by Kevin on August 27th, 2009Something like:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074695/
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Am very much looking forward to seeing this, I also was a big fan of BoB, this should be very interesting. Of particular interest to me was the role the U.S.Navy Seabee’s played in the Pacific, it would be wonderful to see them represented in this series.
Posted by Steven on August 31st, 2009i hope this is true i wanted this 2 happen for years
Posted by jebidiah on September 29th, 2009This looks amazing,I’m really looking forward to it, only thing I wish they would do know is maybe make a mini series of some of the british speical forces aswell.
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