Goetzman said Spielbergs father had been pushing them to do the series about WWII pilots since their first.
He was in the Army Air Force.
Hed seenBandandThe Pacificand say to Steven, Those are great.
When are you going to do the pilots?
When are you going to do Europe?
If we ever did another one that would be it.
Then Don Millers book came along.
Beyond Millers book, technological improvements madeMasters of the Airfeasible decades afterBand of Brothers.
Goetzman credited VFX supervisor Stephen Rosenbaum and the company DNEG.
We did it on a volume stage so we had the advantage of having eyelines working, Fitzgerald said.
It was extremely helpful for us as creatives around them and also for [the actors].
Composer Blake Neely added own artistic music to the proceedings.
Neely said he avoided playing to the horror of war.
I thought we should play tragedy, Neely said.
The challenge was to do it differently than we did onThe Pacific.
That felt more like slogging, dredging through the mud.
This was more heroic for me to score.
Youre worrying more about those people in that situation.
Masters of the Air stars Austin Butler, Barry Keoghan, Callum Turner and more.
Goetzman said Butler was cast before he beganElvis.
Geotzman credited casting director Lucy Blevins for finding him.
She had groupings pretty much for every part how she saw them.
A lot of jigsaw puzzling went around, Goetzman said.
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