The link below concerns the production of the Pacific War series. I found this info over the pacific war forum posted by “Slit.” He writes:
Thanks to appell8 over at the wildbillguarnere.com forums for informing the community about a online diary Dale Dye is doing for the series. Check it out here:
As of July 18, there are four posts by Dye, including this gem from nearly a month ago:
We have some script and production meetings to deal with here in the south and then I’ll be moving up to Far North Queensland to prep the area for two weeks of field training. That’s the crucial period when I take 90-some actors and extras, plus a core group of 35-40 Japanese, and immerse them in WW II lore, weapons, tactics and techniques. I’m doing most of the planning work here in Melbourne, but the real crunch starts when my Warriors staff officers and Cadre NCOs join me in the double-canopy rain forests of Daintree and we disappear into the jungle to start making Marines…the old fashioned way. For the first four days we’ll be keeping the Marines and their Japanese enemy separated. When both sides have basic training in weapons and tactics, we start working them against each other and the real fun starts.
This reminds me of the Ron Livingston training featurettes on the Band of Brothers DVD. I can only imagine the “fun” the actors will suffer at the hands of Dye and others, all for the sake of “historical accuracy,” as he says later in the post.
Even more from Dye: “I thought I’d done my absolute best on Band of Brothers, but I’m going to have to raise the bar for this one.”
August 13 the cameras roll, Dye says.
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