When screenwriter John Orloff reunited with “Band of Brothers” producers Gary Goetzman, Tom Hanks, and Steven Spielberg to adapt Donald L. Miller’s “Masters of the Air,” a non-fiction account of the Air Force’s 100th Bomb Group during World War II, he knew he wanted to give the audience a visceral sense of what it was like to there in the planes.
“We all know what infantry combat looks like,” Orloff told IndieWire’s Filmmaker Toolkit podcast. “We’ve seen it over and over and over. We haven’t really seen what these air bomber combat missions were really like. The thing about being in a bomber is you can’t deviate from your course, so it’s a different thing than being a fighter pilot where you get to shoot and dart all around and do whatever you want. When you’re in a bomber, the only way...
“We all know what infantry combat looks like,” Orloff told IndieWire’s Filmmaker Toolkit podcast. “We’ve seen it over and over and over. We haven’t really seen what these air bomber combat missions were really like. The thing about being in a bomber is you can’t deviate from your course, so it’s a different thing than being a fighter pilot where you get to shoot and dart all around and do whatever you want. When you’re in a bomber, the only way...
- 2/23/2024
- by Jim Hemphill
- Indiewire
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