New look at HBO’s ‘The Pacific’!

HBO has released a fresh look at The Pacific, the Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg miniseries that can’t help but make viewers remember and hope for the quality we saw on the producing duo’s previous HBO military themed show, Band of Brothers (which was is superb). The last we talked Pacific we brought you this trailer in September, which was the first that survived the HBO purge of Pacfic previews online (they’d pop up and get pulled rather quickly). Back in April, we also mentioned a bit by Hanks (via Empire) on the show, where he said of it, “That’s having its score finalised. I think it’s going to be March 2010. We are able to visit the home front on this one and we’re able to show the guys before the War and after. We show some of the most vicious stuff I’ve ever seen on film – because it has to be.”

The Pacific is expected to premiere on March 14th, and centers around James Badge Dale as Robert Leckie, Joseph Mazzello as Eugene B. Sledge, and Jon Seda as John ‘Manila’ Basilone. Two of the three (Eugene Sledge and Robert Lecki) wrote books chronicling their experiences in With the Old Breed and Helmet For My Pillow respectively. My pops enjoyed Band of Brothers, but I think being a corpsman who spent his time with Marine Force Recon in Vietnam, this is much more his alley as he always tells me how they had to go bail out silly Army Green Berets/rangers (servicemen know the talk is in fun/jest-kinda!) on the regular. HBO has a potential murder’s row lined up (which is par for the course for them honestly) for its audience soon with The Pacific, True Blood returning, The Wire’s David Simon & Eric Overmyer’s Treme, and the possibility of George R.R. Martin’s A Game of Thrones getting the go!

Synopsis - “The Pacific” tracks the intertwined odysseys of three U.S. Marines – Robert Leckie, Eugene Sledge and John Basilone – 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.

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