In Deadline Apple TV+ Finale Celebration, ‘Masters Of The Air’ Sticks The Landing
deadline.comMasters of the Air was a labor of love for executive producers Gary Goetzman, Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg. The Apple TV+ series marks the third and final installment of the trio’s war drama miniseries, after Band of Brothers and The Pacific.
The series took three years to create and cost between $250 million and $300 million to produce, including a hefty $60 million in Covid compliance costs to film during the pandemic.
The result was an epic nine-part series with 325 speaking parts and an amazing cast of up-and-coming actors. “The best stories are from history,” said Goetzman during a discussion at the Deadline and Apple TV+ event Inside the Finale, joined by series cast members Barry Keoghan, Callum Turner, Rafferty Law, Josiah Cross, Nate Mann and Anthony Boyle. “Nonfiction is always more fascinating than fiction, and there’s no greater stories of human cost, triumph, passion, love… the biggest story of our world is keeping it in a democratic, beautiful place.” Check out the conversation here.
Band of Brothers and The Pacific launched many outstanding careers — Tom Hardy, Rami Malek, James McAvoy, Damian Lewis and Michael Fassbender to name a few — and garnered 14 Emmy wins in total.
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