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05-16-07, 08:06 AM
Seven Signs Spielberg-Hanks Project
Author: Seven Network | May 16, 2007, 09:55
Channel 7 today announced its involvement with HBO Films’ new Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman produced miniseries event - The Pacific – to be filmed in Australia later this year.
Seven is a production partner in The Pacific, a follow up to the hugely successful miniseries Band of Brothers. The epic World War II tale, which tracks three US Marines’ experiences in the war, will be filmed at Melbourne's Central City Studios in Docklands, and on location in Queensland and New South Wales later this year.
Seven’s Head of Programming and Production, Mr Tim Worner, said today: "This is one of the biggest productions ever undertaken in Australia with filming across three States and over many weeks. Seven is proud to have been chosen as the Australian partner and to be a part of something so crucial to the local production industry."
The 10-hour miniseries is produced by HBO Films in association with Playtone and DreamWorks Television and in collaboration with Film Victoria, the Pacific Film & Television Commission, Ausfilm and the New South Wales Film & TV Office.
HBO Films president Colin Callender said of the project: “We’re proud to be reuniting with Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg to complete the story of the combat experience of World War II.
“This epic miniseries is based on the true stories of three marines whose experiences in the Pacific embodied the unique nature of that theater of war, and dramatize how it profoundly differed from the European front. This was a different sort of war fighting a different sort of enemy.”
The miniseries - based on the books With the Old Breed (Eugene Sledge) and Helmet For My Pillow (Robert Leckie) - tracks the intertwined odysseys of three US Marines – Robert Leckie, John Basilone and Eugene Sledge – across the vast canvas of the Pacific.
The extraordinary experiences of these men and their fellow Marines take them from the first clash with the Japanese in the haunted jungles of Guadalcanal, through the impenetrable rain forests of Cape Gloucester, across the blasted coral strongholds of Peleliu, up the black sand terraces of Iwo Jima, through the killing fields of Okinawa, to the triumphant, yet uneasy, return home after V-J Day.
Ellie
Author: Seven Network | May 16, 2007, 09:55
Channel 7 today announced its involvement with HBO Films’ new Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman produced miniseries event - The Pacific – to be filmed in Australia later this year.
Seven is a production partner in The Pacific, a follow up to the hugely successful miniseries Band of Brothers. The epic World War II tale, which tracks three US Marines’ experiences in the war, will be filmed at Melbourne's Central City Studios in Docklands, and on location in Queensland and New South Wales later this year.
Seven’s Head of Programming and Production, Mr Tim Worner, said today: "This is one of the biggest productions ever undertaken in Australia with filming across three States and over many weeks. Seven is proud to have been chosen as the Australian partner and to be a part of something so crucial to the local production industry."
The 10-hour miniseries is produced by HBO Films in association with Playtone and DreamWorks Television and in collaboration with Film Victoria, the Pacific Film & Television Commission, Ausfilm and the New South Wales Film & TV Office.
HBO Films president Colin Callender said of the project: “We’re proud to be reuniting with Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg to complete the story of the combat experience of World War II.
“This epic miniseries is based on the true stories of three marines whose experiences in the Pacific embodied the unique nature of that theater of war, and dramatize how it profoundly differed from the European front. This was a different sort of war fighting a different sort of enemy.”
The miniseries - based on the books With the Old Breed (Eugene Sledge) and Helmet For My Pillow (Robert Leckie) - tracks the intertwined odysseys of three US Marines – Robert Leckie, John Basilone and Eugene Sledge – across the vast canvas of the Pacific.
The extraordinary experiences of these men and their fellow Marines take them from the first clash with the Japanese in the haunted jungles of Guadalcanal, through the impenetrable rain forests of Cape Gloucester, across the blasted coral strongholds of Peleliu, up the black sand terraces of Iwo Jima, through the killing fields of Okinawa, to the triumphant, yet uneasy, return home after V-J Day.
Ellie