The Pacific (miniseries)

The main cast is listed in the opening and closing credits in alphabetical order with the exception of the three protagonists. Each main character is listed only in the episodes they appear with the three protagonists, who are credited in all episodes. • James Badge Dale as PFC. Robert Leckie (1920–2001) • Joseph Mazzello as Cpl. Eugene Sledge (1923–2001) • Jon Seda as GySgt. John Basilone (1916–1945) • Jon Bernthal as Sgt. Manuel "Manny" Rodriguez (1922−1942) • Joshua Bitton as Sgt. J. P. Morgan (1919–1980) • Dwight Braswell as PFC. Clifford "Steve" Evanson (1926–1945) • Laurence Breuls as 1st Lt. Larkin • Betty Buckley as Marion Leckie (1874-1958) • Tom Budge as PFC. Ronnie Gibson • Mark Casamento as Cpl. Giorgio "George" Basilone (1922–1990) • Joshua Close as Major Edward Sledge, Jr. (1920–1985) • Nate Corddry as PFC. "Loudmouth" (−1944) • Matt Craven as Capt. Grant • Linda Cropper as Mary Frank Sledge (1893–1989) • Caroline Dhavernas as Vera Keller (1923–2024) • Ben Esler as PFC. Charles "Chuck" Tatum (1926–2014) • Brendan Fletcher as PFC. Bill Leyden (1926–2008) • Leon Ford as 1st Lt. Edward "Hillbilly" Jones (1917–1944) • Scott Gibson as Capt. Andrew "Ack-Ack" Haldane (1917–1944) • Lelia Goldoni as Theodora "Dora" Basilone (1889–1951) • Josh Helman as PFC. Lew "Chuckler" Juergens (1918–1982) • Ashton Holmes as Cpl. Sidney Phillips (1924–2015) • Brandon Keener as Charles Dunworthy • Andrew Lees as Pfc. Robert Oswalt (1923–1944) • Isabel Lucas as Gwen • Rami Malek as Cpl. Merriell "Snafu" Shelton (1922–1993) • Martin McCann as Sgt. Romus "R.V." Burgin (1922–2019) • Ian Meadows as Pvt. Cecil Evans (-2009) • Toby Leonard Moore as 2nd Lt. Stone • Rohan Nichol as 2nd Lt. Lebec • Henry Nixon as 1st Lt. Hugh Corrigan (1920–2005) • Keith Nobbs as PFC. Wilbur "Runner" Conley (1921–1997) • Conor O'Farrell as Dr. Edward Sledge, Sr. (1887–1954) • Annie Parisse as Sgt. Lena Basilone (1913–1999) • Jacob Pitts as PFC. Bill "Hoosier" Smith (1922–1985) • William Sadler as Lt. Col. Lewis "Chesty" Puller (1898–1971) • Joseph R. Sicari as Salvatore Basilone (1884–1965) • Gary Sweet as MGySgt. Elmo "Gunny" Haney (1898–1979) • Anna Torv as Virginia Grey (1917–2004) • Claire van der Boom as Stella Karamanlis • Dylan Young as PFC. Jay De L'Eau (1923–1997) • Ashley Zukerman as 2nd Lt. Robert "Mac" MacKenzie (−2003) ==Production==

and Steven Spielberg talk with veterans of the World War II Pacific theater March 11 after a ceremony honoring the men at the World War II Memorial. The Pacific was produced by Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks, and Gary Goetzman in association with HBO Miniseries, Playtone, DreamWorks, Seven Network and Sky Movies. Seven and Sky both invested in the project for the right to broadcast it in Australia and the United Kingdom respectively. Nine Network has previously broadcast the HBO productions of Band of Brothers. Nine had a broadcast deal with HBO's parent Warner Bros., but then HBO started to distribute its productions separately. When work on the project began, DreamWorks' television division was operating as a unit of Paramount Pictures, with Paramount's parent company Viacom having purchased DreamWorks' live-action film and television divisions in February 2006. However, by the time The Pacific was released, DreamWorks' live-action film and television divisions had already split from Viacom, with Viacom still retaining ownership of DreamWorks' pre-existing live-action film and television libraries. In the show's credits, HBO was listed as the sole copyright holder. In April 2007, the producers set up a production office in Melbourne and began casting. Originally the project was estimated at $100 million to produce, According to the Sydney Morning Herald an estimated A$134 million was spent in Australia. The Australian newspaper Herald Sun estimates that it brought 4,000 jobs and generated A$180 million for the Australian economy. light tank in the National Museum of Singapore, one of four constructed for the miniseries.Filming of the miniseries in Australia started on August 10, 2007, and finished in late May 2008. From August until November 2007 filming took place at locations in and around Port Douglas, Queensland including Mossman, Queensland; Drumsara Plantation, Mowbray National Park in the You Yangs near Lara (from November–December 2007), then at a sand quarry on Sandy Creek Road near Geelong until February 2008. Melbourne city locations were used in late 2007 and through 2008 including Central City Studios at Melbourne Docklands (March 2008); Flinders Street (between Swanston and Elizabeth streets, February 1–4, 2008); the intersection of Swanston and Flinders streets (February 2008); Flinders Street station (February 2–3, 2008). Other suburban locations included Mornington Railway, Bundoora, specifically the Ernest Jones Hall at the La Trobe University campus, Bundoora (late May 2008); the Railway Hotel, South Melbourne (December 2007); Scotch College, Melbourne (December 2007); The trains in the series, including K class and S class locomotives, and Club Car Moorabool, were chartered from Steamrail and the Mornington Railway Preservation Society, and were filmed with on the Mornington Railway. The series's score was written by Hans Zimmer, Geoff Zanelli and Blake Neely and was released on March 9, 2010. Historian Hugh Ambrose, son of Band of Brothers author Stephen E. Ambrose, wrote the official tie-in book to the miniseries, The Pacific: Hell was an Ocean Away (2011), which follows the stories of two of the featured men from the miniseries, Basilone and Sledge, as well as stories of Sledge's close friend Sidney Phillips and two men not featured in the series, marine officer Austin Shofner and US Navy pilot Vernon Micheel. The different cast provides a wider view of the Pacific theatre, allowing the book to include the fall of the Philippines, Midway, Philippine Sea and Luzon and expand the narrative to include depictions of life as experienced by prisoners of war, senior officers and the development of naval aviation. It was published in the UK and the US in March 2010 and Ambrose gave a webcast interview about the book at the Pritzker Military Library on April 15, 2010. ==Broadcast==

The series premiered in the US and Canada on March 14, 2010, on HBO. HBO Asia premiered The Pacific at 9 pm on April 3, 2010, with the first two episodes being consecutively broadcast in the first week. Singapore, Hong Kong, and Indonesia had dual languages available. Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Malaysia, and the Philippines broadcasts were available in high-definition on the HBO Asia HD Channel. The Pacific began broadcast on April 5, 2010, on Sky Movies in the United Kingdom and Ireland. In Portugal, the series was broadcast on April 5, 2010, on AXN and in HD on AXN HD two days after the original broadcast in the US. The series broadcast commenced in Australia on Channel 7 on Wednesday, April 14, 2010, at 8:30 pm. In Denmark, Norway, Finland, France, and Sweden, the series began broadcasting on Canal+; in Turkey, CNBC-e on April 18, 2010; in the Netherlands, on April 7, 2010, on Veronica; and in Greece, on Nova Cinema on April 10, 2010. In New Zealand, the series began broadcasting on April 12, 2010, on TV One. In Italy, the miniseries began broadcast on May 9, 2010, on Sky Cinema 1; in Germany, on July 15, 2010, on Kabel eins. In Japan, the miniseries started July 18, 2010, on WOWOW. In South Africa, the miniseries started broadcasting on May 5, 2010, on the Mnet channel. In the US, the rights to the series were picked up by Ovation and it started airing sometime in 2019. Marketing The first official US trailer for The Pacific aired on HBO before the season 2 premiere of True Blood on June 14, 2009. It showed footage of the three main characters, including a conversation between Leckie and Sledge, Basilone's marriage, and numerous combat scenes. The trailer concluded with "2010" displayed on-screen, alluding to and confirming the series release date. A second trailer was released on the HBO website after which the date "March 2010" is displayed, giving a more specific series release date. On January 14, 2010, Comcast added on-demand content from the series, including a scene from The Pacific, interviews with the producers, and character profiles. Another trailer was shown in February 2010 during Super Bowl XLIV, depicting several combat scenes. An extended trailer (3:47) of the miniseries can be viewed on the series' official website. ==Episodes==

Critical reception The Pacific received widespread critical acclaim. On the review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, the series holds an approval rating of 89% with an average rating of 8.5 out of 10, based on 46 reviews. The website's critical consensus reads, "An honest, albeit horrifying, exploration of World War II, The Pacific is a visually stunning miniseries not for the faint of heart." On Metacritic, the series has a weighted average score of 86 out of 100, based on 32 critics, indicating "universal acclaim". Time magazine's James Poniewozik named it one of the Top 10 TV Series of 2010. IGN reviewer Ramsey Isler gave the entire miniseries an 8.5 out of 10, saying, "Although I don't think The Pacific overtakes Band of Brothers in terms of technical execution and overall entertainment value, many of the comparisons will be moot as The Pacific is a different kind of series with different goals. This series sought to look beyond the combat and it paints a full, vivid picture of the war and the people that fought in it through focused, individual stories. That's a tall order for any series to fulfill, and although The Pacific doesn't always come through with shining colors, it does make an admirable effort." IGN also reviewed each episode, with Episode 9 receiving a perfect 10 out of 10 score. Awards and nominations ==Home media==

In 2011, HBO aired a documentary entitled He Has Seen War with Tom Hanks as executive producer and Mark Herzog as a director about the postwar stories of and lasting effects of the war, including post-traumatic stress disorder, on not only 1st Marine Division members but also the members of E ("Easy") Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division, who were the subjects of Band of Brothers after fighting in Operation Overlord in Normandy (including Brécourt Manor on D-Day and Carentan), in Operation Market Garden and Operation Pegasus in the Netherlands and in the Siege of Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge. Eugene Sledge's and Robert Leckie's families both appear, as does the family of Easy Company 1st Lieutenant Lynn "Buck" Compton. Staff Sergeant William "Wild Bill" Guarnere and Technical Sergeant Donald Malarkey, both of Easy Company, also appear alongside their families. ==Notes==