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Published 14:08 10 Oct 2020 GMT
The sequel to Band of Brothers is set to begin filming in London in March, it is being reported.
What's more, it has been announced that the opening three episodes of the series will be directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga, who helmed the much-delayed Bond movie No Time To Die.
Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks will collaborate on the project, it's reported, as they did on the original Band of Brothers, which was released back in 2001 to much critical acclaim.
Check out the trailer for Band of Brothers right here:
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The series was first announced last October. Named Masters of the Air, the series will be based on the Donald L. Miller book of the same name and will stream on Apple TV+.
In an announcement for the show, Apple said:
"Apple today announced that it has partnered with Steven Spielberg's Amblin Television, and Tom Hanks & Gary Goetzman's Playtone on Masters of the Air, a new international limited drama series that marks the first series greenlit with Apple serving as the studio.
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"Masters of the Air will stream exclusively on Apple TV+, a new home for the world's most creative storytellers, and is the second project for Apple to hail from Spielberg's Amblin Television in addition to Amazing Stories.
"The series will join Apple's growing offering of sweeping international drama series, including Pachinko and Shantaram."
Per Deadline, the book tells the story of the American bomber boys in World War II. The publication reports that the miniseries will be more than eight hours in length and cost upwards of $200m to produce.
Spielberg, Hanks & Gary Goetzman had originally developed Masters of the Air for HBO, where the miniseries was envisioned as the final chapter in a trilogy that would have included Band of Brothers and The Pacific. However HBO has since exited the historical World War II event miniseries genre.
Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg's partnership goes back a long way. The pair previously collaborated on the war time epic Saving Private Ryan, for which Spielberg won the best director Oscar.
"Let me just turn my eyes to Mr Hanks, who, from the very beginning said to me, 'This is gonna be something extraordinary.'" Spielberg said in his acceptance speech.
"We weren't really talking about the film, we were talking about the experience of making Saving Private Ryan.
"And he was right, it is one of the most extraordinary events of all of our lives, and the lives of all of our families - we were all in it together."
