Flags of Our Fathers

Clint Eastwood has directed a World War 2 movie that will be released soon called Flags of our Fathers. It shows the events and aftermath of the battle for Iwo Jima and the famous flag raising there, on Mt. Suribachi. It's based on the book of the same title by James Bradley.

Flags of our Fathers opens in late October and will followed by a companion film, from the Japanese perspective. The Japanese film, now titled Letters from Iwo Jima, is not a sequal per se but a seperate point of view about the same topic. It should be fascinating.

You can learn more about Iwo Jima by clicking the first link above and see a trailer for the movie by clicking the second link.

For those of you who appreciated the Band of Brothers mini-series, Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg are producing a similar ten-part mini-series called The Pacific about that part of World War 2 to air on HBO in 2009 (two and half years; they're only in pre-production now). It will have some of the same writers, producers and directors as Band of Brothers, and is expected to use some material from another WW2 James Bradley book, Flyboys.