HBO/Tom Hanks Pacific WW2 Theater Miniseries

[WSteel]

I read on a web site not too long ago that HBO had acquired the rights to E.B. Sledge's book "With the Old Breed" and that this book will be the source for the upcoming Band of Brothers type miniseries that HBO, Tom Hanks, and Dreamworks will be producing for HBO to be shown in 2005.

Seeing as how 2005 will be the 60th anniversary of the end of WW2, the timing seems about right to me!

Oh - and it will be 13 parts long, not the 10 of BoB

[Rohan]

Kewl. I have all BoB dvds. Pirated of course. :D

[Roq]

nice

[Silence]

eexcelent. btw! isnt it wierd that after so many, movies, games, books, movies, games, tv-series, WWII theme doesnt get old. Mohaa sold alot, then came Cod, that well talks for it self, and BF1942 and so on...

[WSteel]

I think the reason for that is because WW2 was such a vast, devastating, important conflict in the history of the 20th century that it encompasses a whole bunch of universal themes.

I can think of no other conflict in recent memory (save for the war on Al-Qaida - which is entirely different than the ridiculous war in Iraq - and I'm a conservative Republican saying that!!) that the lines of good and evil were so clearly defined.

WW2 will always occupy an important place in the popular imagination as the last "good" war.