Based on the best selling novel by Stephen E. Ambrose, Band of Brothers was directed by both Stephen Spielberg as well as Tom Hanks; both had worked together in the production of Saving Private Ryan. Band of Brothers incorporates some very new and extremely revolutionary technology for filming. The movie has very little color during the film; this was attainable thanks to an all digital film finishing process, which gave way to electric color timing, allowing them to control all of the visual aspects of the film, such as color and hue.
Production for Band of Brothers was no easy task, costing more than an estimated 120 million dollars, taking more than three years, and requiring a set which was 5 times larger than the one used in Saving Private Ryan, in fact the whole set was constantly changed during the series to reflect different parts of Europe such as Holland, Nazi Germany, etc.
The most notable scene would have to be the DROP on D-Day, in which the production crew had to simulate thousands upon thousands of men dropping FRO
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