No, unfortunately I’m not passing on an announcement that a 4th miniseries has been greenlit.
The question is: what WWII story do you think deserves a Spielberg/Hanks high-budget 10-part miniseries? Give it a title, describe the main plot lines and name your source material if possible
I’ll go first….When The Pacific was announced I had hopes that it would be a Navy story rather than a Marine story. So…
#1 “Steel Islands” - three intersecting stories - one following the USS Enterprise, based loosely on “The Big E” and “Dauntless Helldivers” and the second. more intimate based on a Destroyer Escort as told in “Little Ship Big War” - episodes 1, 4, and 9 would be the Japanese perspective, based on “Japanese Destroyer Captain” by Hara - and would show the early mastery of the seas that slowly and steadily degrades.
#2 “The Quiet War” - built around the formation of the OSS, and the various spy activities in occupied Europe and surrounding countries. “Piercing the Reich” about efforts to send sabotage teams and spies into Nazi occupied territory has some fascinating tales. We could focus in on a handful od three man Jedburgh teams