Apple TV+ to Air War Drama by Spielberg, Hanks

<p>Apple TV&plus; announced its upcoming nine-episode World War II drama&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Masters of the Air&comma;” will make its global debut on Friday&comma; January 26&comma; 2024&period; Reuniting the award-winning team of Steven Spielberg&comma; Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman who also produced &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Band of Brothers” and &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The Pacific&comma;” &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Masters of the Air” is an action-packed drama that follows the true story of an American bomber group in World War II&period; The series will premiere on Apple TV&plus; with two episodes&comma; followed by one new episode every Friday through March 15&comma; 2024&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The series is executive produced by Spielberg&comma; Hanks and Goetzman&comma; and features a cast led by Academy Award nominee Austin Butler&comma; Callum Turner&comma; Anthony Boyle&comma; Nate Mann&comma; Rafferty Law&comma; Academy Award nominee Barry Keoghan&comma; Josiah Cross&comma; Branden Cook and Ncuti Gatwa&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;&OpenCurlyQuote;Masters of the Air’ is a salute to the brave men of the 8th Air Force&comma; who&comma; through their courage and brotherhood&comma; helped defeat Nazi Germany in World War II&comma;” said executive producer Gary Goetzman&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Tom and Steven have always wanted to visualize cinematically what our author Don Miller has called&comma; this &OpenCurlyQuote;singular event in the history of warfare&period;’ We’re thrilled that Apple TV&plus; has given us the opportunity to combine the efforts of so many talented people&comma; on-screen and behind the camera&comma; to tell this important story&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Based on Donald L&period; Miller’s book of the same name&comma; and scripted by John Orloff&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Masters of the Air” follows the men of the 100th Bomb Group &lpar;the &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Bloody Hundredth”&rpar; as they conduct perilous bombing raids over Nazi Germany and grapple with the frigid conditions&comma; lack of oxygen and sheer terror of combat conducted at 25&comma;000 feet in the air&period; Portraying the psychological and emotional price paid by these young men as they helped destroy the horror of Hitler’s Third Reich&comma; is at the heart of &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Masters of the Air&period;” Some were shot down and captured&semi; some were wounded or killed&period; And some were lucky enough to make it home&period; Regardless of individual fate&comma; a toll was exacted on them all&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Ranging in location from the bucolic fields and villages of southeast England&comma; to the harsh deprivations of a German prisoner-of-war camp&comma; and depicting a unique and crucial time in world history&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Masters of the Air” is enormous in both scale and scope&comma; and a genuine cinematic achievement&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Hailing from Apple Studios&comma; &&num;8220&semi;Masters of the Air&&num;8221&semi; is executive produced by Spielberg through Amblin Television&comma; and Hanks and Goetzman for Playtone&period; Amblin Television’s Darryl Frank and Justin Falvey co-executive produce alongside Playtone’s Steven Shareshian&period; In addition to writing&comma; Orloff co-executive produces&period; Graham Yost also serves as co-executive producer&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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