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Sorry for my very late comment on this, but I've just come across this forum. I had read in one of After the Battle's editions that Spielberg had bought the rights to John Bradley's book "Flags of our Fathers" back in 2001 or 02. This book was written by the the son of one of the flagraisers on Iwo Jima and follows the story of those 7 men who would eventually feature in Joe Rosenthal's photograph. I certainly hope that this is what will turn out to be the "Pacific Project". Keeping my fingers crossed!

I have to admit, he's chosen well for his series: it stayed without the usual Hollywood retrospective liberalism and just stayed close at hand to the subject matter without much judgement. That he's going to be using that source material (and I hope he does) bodes well for this new series.

I do have the offhand feeling because it's the Japanese he'll try to "humanize" (make more sympathetic) the Japanese soldiers. We'll probably not get the "this is what's behind it all" peek we got with the Nazi concentration camps. Darker than white skin privilege runs deep in their set.