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Hanks, Spielberg Do Imperial Japan
Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg are gearing up for another tour of duty.
The Emmy-winning producing team behind HBO's critically acclaimed epic Band of Brothers, which charted American soldiers' heroism against the Nazis in Europe during World War II, are switching theaters to the Pacific and Imperial Japan.
According to the trades, Hanks and his Playtone producing partner Gary Goetzman are reuniting with the Saving Private Ryan director to mount a new 10-part WWII miniseries, dubbed for now "Untitled World War II Pacific Theater Project," which is on the fast track at DreamWorks.
Like Band of Brothers, the new mini-series will channel the scope and spirit of that award-winning docudrama by focusing on a battalion of soldiers through America's island assault against the Japanese, which culminated in the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The story will also have a similar $100 million-plus budget, but unlike Brothers, which was based on famed historian Stephen Ambrose's bestselling book following the trials of Easy Company, the 506th Airborne regiment after landing in France on D-Day, the new project will be an original work.
Spielberg, Hanks, and Goetzman are reportedly eyeing scribe Bruce McKenna, who won a Writers Guild of America award for penning several episodes of Band of Brothers, to take charge of the writing team for the Pacific campaign.
The trio is expected to meet with him and strategize over the various episodes once McKenna finishes up adapting The Perfect Mile, helmed by Frank Marshall, for Universal Pictures and Spyglass Entertainment. The writer is also hard at work plotting Hands of Shang Chi, another Marvel Comics' adventure for DreamWorks.
Band of Brothers earned HBO an impressive 19 Emmy nominations, and took home six awards, including outstanding miniseries. It also won
The mini-series was also a high watermark for Hanks' Playtone Productions, which seems to be staking a claim on the long lost art of the mini-series.
The company also produced and took home an Emmy trophy for outstanding miniseries for From the Earth to the Moon, an epic story detailing America's ventures into space during the Cold War.
And expect more epic history lessons from Playtone's upcoming slate including John Adams, a 13-part mini about the American Revolutionary War based on David McCullough's book John Adams. Hanks and company have also optioned George Crile's book, Charlie Wilson's War, centering on an eccentric ex-Texas congressman who convinced the CIA to back mujahadeen fighters in Afghanistan in their fight against the Soviets that helped bring an end to the Cold War.
According to Variety, Hanks is eyeing the role of Wilson (not the volleyball), a womanizing alcoholic who kept a bevy of former beauty pageant contestants he called "Charlie's Angels" on staff and nearly had to give up his job after being caught in a hot tub with cocaine-snorting Vegas showgirls.
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