Tom Hanks, JFK, and Band of Brothers

I read on Yahoo! that Tom Hanks is producing a new 10-part miniseries for HBO on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

It's based on Vincent Bugliosi's Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy which disclaims many conspiracy theories and contends that Lee Harvey Oswald
was the sole party behind the 1963 Kennedy assassination.

I don't buy it, and apparently 75% of the American public agrees with me. And you should, unless you somehow fell asleep during the 206 minute movie JFK. Impossible! Supposedly this miniseries will reverse that trend and we'll all believe the Warren Report.

Tom Hanks' production company is called Playtone and they've worked with HBO before on the miniseries From the Earth to the Moon, Band of Brothers, and the upcoming John Adams and The Pacific.

Band of Brothers is one of the best movies I have ever seen, especially about war, and The Pacific is its successor.

Whereas Band of Brothers focused on US involvement in the European Theater of Operations, the new series will be about the Pacific Theater of Operations.

The Pacific will not be associated with any of the characters from Band of Brothers and is to be based primarily on two memoirs by US Marines: With the Old Breed by Eugene Sledge and Helmet for My Pillow by Robert Leckie.

The series will tell the stories of the two authors and Marine John Basilone, as the war against Japan rages.

Production of the series started in August 2007, in Australia. I'm really looking forward to The Pacific, but it won't be finished until sometime in 2009.