Although 20 years have passed, "Company of Brothers" is still the number one war drama in the minds of many people, and Douban is still 9.6 points, high above and has long been enshrined.
But so much time has passed, Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg, two major film and television industry bigwigs, still have not completed their "World War II theme land, sea and air trilogy", the first "Brothers Company" (Lu) in the past 20 years, the second "Pacific War ( sea) in the past 10 years.
The third part, which didn't start to make a real splash until last year, this time was "Masters of Air," which focused on the air.
Adapted from Donald Miller's original novel Heroes in the Air, the play tells the story of the U.S. Air Force's Eighth Air Force in World War II, and it was they who gave Nazi Germany strategic bombing at the time, and they received such high praise: How could they have won that war without the Eighth Air Force?
The audience was naturally very excited and looking forward to it, and finally "land, sea and air" were ready.
At the end of last year, after the ghost director Kerry Fukunaga (the director of the latest 007 movie "007: No Time to Die"), the two male protagonists of the show were finally finalized: two post-90s actors.
Both are very recognizable characters who have begun to pick a beam in the film circle, which makes people feel very relieved to see it, one word: stable!
One is the American actor, Austin Butler, who will play Major Gail Clevin in Air Combat.
Born in 1991, Butler was discovered into the acting industry at the age of 13, he has a handsome and emaciated face, in his early years starred in "Aliens on the Roof", "Chape's Wonderful Adventure", "Unexpected Arrival", "Misplaced Youth", etc., in 2012, in the "Sex and the City" prequel "Kelly's Diary" as the male protagonist Sebastian Kydd.
In the past two years, Butler has begun to rise to fame, and there are many good opportunities.
In 2019, he starred in the film "Zombies Are Not Dead" directed by the famous director Jim Jarmusch, which was selected for the main competition unit of the Cannes Film Festival that year, and the handsome Butler circle of fans in the film was countless, even if he was photographed on the set with bloody makeup, it could not hide his handsomeness.
In the same year, Butler also starred in "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" directed by Quentin Tarantino, playing the "Manson Family" TEX.
Butler also recently got a really good chance: along with Tom Hanks, he starred in the biopic of "King of Rock and Roll" Elvis Presley ("Elvis Presley" ("Elvis") directed by Tom Hanks (director of "Moulin Rouge"), in which Hanks played Elvis Parker, the agent of the Elvis presley legend, and Butler starred in the film as Elvis Himself!
I don't know if it was this collaboration that made him look up to Tom Hanks and recommended him to "Air Combat Heroes" where he was the producer.
Comparing the photos, Butler has a bit of the charm of Elvis Presley's handsomeness and dragging. Nowadays, the male protagonist of several big plays, Austin Butler, has become a new generation of A-list male stars, which is also just around the corner.
The other is the British actor, Callum Turner, born in 1990, who is also emaciated, in addition to being an actor and a model. He will play Major John Egon in Air Combat.
Although Callum Turner is not particularly handsome, he has a highly recognizable face, his temperament is also very special, and his star path has always been good.
In 2014, he won the "Most Breakthrough British" award from the British Academy Film Awards for his first film" The Queen and the Nation. In 2016, he played Anatoll Kurakin in the TV series War and Peace, and starred in the star-studded Assassin's Creed in the same year.
In 2018, Callum Turner starred in the highly followed fantasy film Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, playing Theseus Scamander, the brother of actor Newt Scamander (Oscar-winning "Little Freckles" Eddie Redmayne), who also circled a wave of fans at the time.
In 2019, he starred in the first season of "Truth Capture", which played Sean, a soldier charged with murder, in which Callum Turner had a soldier appearance, which can feel his appearance in "Air Combat Heroes" in advance.
Both are up-and-comers who have participated in blockbusters and dramas, both have acting skills, and their appearance is not "mother", and it is also very suitable to star in "Air Combat Heroes".
Moreover, the selection of male protagonists in such a big drama must go through the hands of the two executive producers Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg, there is no real skill, and do not want to win such an important play, after all, I don't know how many male actors want to act in this drama.
Think about it, there were several unknown actors who experienced "Company of Brothers" and "Pacific War", such as "Company of Brothers" tom Hardy (picture 1 below), and for example, oscar-winning film Rami Marek (picture 2 below) who came out of "Pacific War".
As we all know, to shoot such a big theme and a big scene of war drama, it is impossible to do without money.
The first "Company of Brothers" was filmed and produced alone to "burn money" 125 million US dollars, you know that it was still 20 years ago; the second "Pacific War", originally budgeted 100 million US dollars 10 years ago, but the production cost of filming was directly doubled, becoming a huge amount of 223 million US dollars, becoming the most expensive World War II theme American drama that year.
("Company of Brothers" and "Pacific War", funding has been burning)
As the most money-burning war drama, the reason why the filming of "Air Combat Heroes" dragged on and on was the problem of money before. Recently, until the project from the original HBO hands, will become Apple's streaming media Apple TV+ investment production, finally not bad money.
Currently, 10 episodes of Air Combat are booked, and the current cost is more than $200 million. Meanwhile, Carey Fuyong will direct the first 3 episodes of the series, and his company will also be deeply involved in the series.
Kerry Fuyong is a director with high hopes, having previously been in danger and taking over the ill-fated "007: No Time to Die" to become the director who saved the film. After that, he found someone to re-develop the script, subversively appearing in the film as a black female 007, and possibly even arranging for 007, played by Daniel Craig, to have a daughter in the film.
(Kerry Fukunaga and Daniel Craig on the set of the movie 007)
Fukunaga's HBO crime drama "True Detective" (the first season) as early as 2014 surprised many viewers, and the drama is considered by many to surpass "House of Cards" and "Sherlock", and he also won the Emmy Award for Best Director for this drama that year.
In addition to continuing to be Spielberg and Tom Hanks as executive producers again, "Company of Brothers" screenwriter John Orof will write the script for "Company of Brothers", and the impressive dialogue in "Company of Brothers" is no weaker than the war scene.
Strong producers, capable directors, screenwriters of "Company of Brothers", male protagonists with hope, investors now have it, then, just wait for "Air Combat Heroes" to start shooting well.
Such a lineup, such a theme, there is no reason not to look forward to it.
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