Apple TV+ right now introduced the premiere date for its highly-anticipated miniseries ‘Masters of the Air‘, which is a sequel follow-up to the award-winning ‘Band of Brothers’ and ‘The Pacific’ HBO collection. It’s based mostly on the guide of the identical identify by Donald Miller, which particulars the battles of the American eighth Air Pressure throughout World Conflict II.
Produced by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks, Masters of the Air will premiere on January 26, 2024, with the primary two episodes. The forged consists of Austin Butler, Callum Turner, Barry Koeghan, Ncuti Gatwa and extra.
The present will comply with the younger males of the a centesimal Bomb Group as they execute bombings over Nazi Germany, coping with freezing temperatures and oxygen deprivation at 25,000 ft up within the air.
It is going to characteristic fighter aircraft battles, the bottom experiences of the pilots’ time in England, and depictions of dwelling within the Germany prisoner-of-war camps.
This represents one in all Apple TV+’s largest productions ever. In a press launch, Apple referred to as the present a cinematic achievement:
Ranging in location from the bucolic fields and villages of southeast England, to the cruel deprivations of a German prisoner-of-war camp, and depicting a singular and essential time in world historical past, “Masters of the Air” is gigantic in each scale and scope, and a real cinematic achievement.
Though no trailer is launched but, Apple beforehand previewed a brief clip of Masters of the Air throughout its June WWDC keynote, as one of many movies performed within the TV app in the course of the Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional demo.
Manufacturing for a status premium aerial warfare present doesn’t come low-cost. Masters of the Air was initially in improvement at HBO, however spiralling prices noticed the undertaking lower unfastened. Apple snapped up the rights again in 2019 and absolutely funded the manufacturing underneath its in-house Apple Studios banner, footing the invoice for the bold collection which is estimated to value as a lot as $250 million for the 9 episodes.
You possibly can add Masters of the Air to your Up Subsequent queue within the TV app now. The primary two episodes will premiere on January 26, adopted by one new episode weekly via March 15.
See all the pieces coming to Apple TV+ in our complete present information.
