Spielberg and Hanks’ Pacific to Film in Australia

April 10th, 2007 | Category: Tom Hanks

 

reports that HBO and DreamWorks’ “The Pacific,” to be produced by Steven Spielberg and Playtone partners Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman, has set up shop in Melbourne and commenced casting.

The article states that the 10-part war miniseries will cost $150 million and employ 280 Australian actors, including almost 20 male least and at least 250 in supporting roles or extras.

From the creative team that brought you “Band

of Brothers,” the project is centered on the battles in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Writer Bruce McKenna, who penned several installments of the first miniseries, is the head writer.

The cameras are expected to start rolling in August for close to a year, with locations to include Far North Queensland, Melbourne and the Northern Territory. Producers have chosen to base the series at Melbourne’s Central City Studios.

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3 Comments so far

  1. BIkash April 11th, 2007 6:37 am

    Steven Spielberg is a genius. He has done so many great films. This will be another good film, we suppose.He has created masterpieces and this war series will be another. Hope to see some great works.

  2. BIkash April 11th, 2007 6:55 am

    Tom Hanks is great. I saw him Philadelphia, Forest Gump and The Terminal and in many more. He is such a fantastic actor. He can make anything extraordinary. Hope to get some real good piece this time. Spielberg and tom make a good pair in working.

  3. Wicket April 11th, 2007 7:15 am

    Wow …huge project but is Spielberg actually directing or executive producing like he sometimes does? It will no doubt be a great project in any case as Spielberg and Hanks have such a great history together. Guess we can’t look forward to seeing it on air until 2009 sometimes though, huh?

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