Spielberg and Hanks to make Band of Brothers movie as well?

07-25-2003, 02:44 PM

[quote=Tripper]

Quote:

Originally Posted by "Sgt Stryker":70037

so wait, THE ORIGINAL CAST (Easy Co. 506th Para Inf.) are being sent to the Pacific?

methinks Spielberg is a revisionist historian.

I hope it means same actors, not characters, because the same group of guys fighting the "badguys" all across the world sounds like "GI Joe" cartoons, not a realistic WWII film.

.....But weren't they sent to the Pacific theatre at the end of the European war?[/quote:70037]

there were plans to send troops over for invasion of mainland Japan, however we need to remember some dates here:

European war ended on May 8, 1945,
Okinawa invasion (the last battle of the Pacific) started on April 1, 1945 and ended in early July, 1945.
In Band Of Brothers Easy Company stormed Berhtesgarten (sp?) that operation was carried out in April (as far as I recall), so they were still in action in Europe when the last battle of the Pacific war started