Tom Hanks Talks The Pacific Mini-Series
TV News, The Pacific (2009) TV Mini-Series — By Nix on December 3, 2007 |
How much am I looking forward to Tom Hanks’ return to World War II, this time in the Pacific theater, with the epic mini-series “The Pacific”? So much that I’m even contemplating signing up for HBO just so I can see the episodes as they are rolled out on their first-runs, instead of waiting for the DVD or, ahem, using other means to see them, the way I did with “Band of Brothers”. Collider recently had a chance to talk to Hanks about “The Pacific”, and here are the highlights.
Via:
Collider: I was going to ask you specifically about “The Pacific”. How is that going?
Tom Hanks: It’s half-way done. There are going to be 10 hours in there I think we just started our 5th hour down there.
Collider: And how would you compare it to “Band of Brothers”?
Tom Hanks: It has to be different because it just can’t be the same theme. It’s not as clean as “Band of Brothers”. “Band of Brothers” came from Ambrose’s book and we bought 4 or 5 books and they were like…we just happened to be able to intersect them. And we can’t just go back and re-create World War II one more time. You have to make it a much more personal saga and also the nature of warfare in the South Pacific was so different than say liberating Holland. So it’s going to be tougher. It’s going to be a hard…I mean to watch…it’s going to be a harder series.
Wow, are you kidding me? “The Pacific” is going to be “harder” than “Band of Brothers”? That’s saying a lot, because “Band of Brothers” was pretty damn brutal at certain points.
Now I’m REALLY looking forward to this…
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RE: Tarawa -”The Pacific”
Dear Mr. Hanks,
I wanted to tell you that in the old film clips of Tarawa where the Marines finally take the bunker at Tarawa (the focus of the battle), the 21 year old with the flame thrower was my father, Corporal Robert Domasky. How do I know, he was the only one with the flame thrower and identified himself to us. There were only seven left from the group that gunny lead to stop the machine guns on the bunker. The machine guns were slaughtering the 2nd and 3rd waves who couldn’t get to shore without wading in (tide went down). He was in the first wave and got ashore. He was in a special attachment of engineers. He told me they exchange the bunker more times than he could remember (each time they retook the bunker they killed the wounded Japanese – the Janpanese also killed the wounded Mariens when they retook the bunker).
My father passed away 5 years ago but just for the record, he would want me to tell you, it was gunny who lead the marines on the attack of the bunker not the lieutentant who was awarded the CMH. At the end, gunny told the rest (from atop of the bunker), “You can do what you want, I’m staying.” They all stayed with gunny. My father was wounded in the leg on the last day of the battle (lasted three days). Incidentally, my father was one of those marines who jumped over the coconut retaining wall (said it was the dummiest thing he ever did but as a squad leader thought he was supposed to and expected other to follow – they didn’t but that’s another story).
Probably won’t see this but I owed it to my dad to write it.
Thomas Domasky
Sacramento, CA