‘Masters Of The Air’ Trailer: Austin Butler Leads The “Bloody Hundredth” Bombers To Hitler’s Doorstep In Explosive WWII Drama
deadline.com“Let’s rack ’em up and knock ’em down.” Those words from Austin Butler‘s Maj. Gale ‘Buck’ Cleven in the opening of the first trailer for Apple TV+’s World War II drama Masters of the Air.
The nine-episode limited series hails from Band of Brothers and The Pacific producers Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman. “When you look at it, you don’t pay any attention to what’s really going on,” a pensive Cleven says as he watches bombs explode in the distance against a dark night sky. “It’s kind of beautiful.” Based on Donald L.
Miller’s book and scripted by John Orloff, the limited series follows the true story of an American bomber group in World War II.
The cinematically impressive series was shot on locations ranging from the bucolic fields and villages of southeast England, to the harsh deprivations of a German Prisoner of War Camp.
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