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Erik Jendresen, who served as the main writer and showrunner on Band of Brothers, spent months preparing for the show that eventually earned him, Tom Hanks, and Steven Spielberg a Primetime Emmy ...
Nov 10, 2023 · That’s where, in 1999, Band of Brothers’ lead writer and supervising producer Erik Jendresen first met with his soon-to-be-creative partner, Tom Hanks, to discuss adapting Stephen E. Ambrose’s 1992 book into one of HBO’s most prestigious (and enduring) miniseries.
- Phil Pirrello
The series was developed chiefly by Tom Hanks and Erik Jendresen, who spent months detailing the plot outline and individual episodes. Steven Spielberg served as "the final eye" and used Saving Private Ryan, the film on which he and Hanks had collaborated, to inform the series, although Jendresen served as showrunner.
Jun 13, 2023 · Band of Brothers: A Homage to WWII Soldiers. Yes, ‘Band of Brothers’ is a true story. The 10-part series was written by Erik Jendresen, Tom Hanks, John Orloff, E. Max Frye, Graham Yost, Bruce C. McKenna, and Erik Bork.
As co-creator, lead writer and a supervising producer of the critically acclaimed mini-series Band of Brothers for HBO in 2001, Jendresen was one of the recipients of that year's Emmy Award for "Outstanding Miniseries", which he shared with Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg, among others.
Dec 10, 2021 · Now entering its third decade but with its quality undiminished, it stands as what producer Tom Hanks called “a social document”, more important now than ever as the surviving members of Easy Company have dwindled to just one survivor.
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Sep 9, 2021 · The production began with Hanks and lead writer Erik Jendresen compiling a 275-page series ‘bible’. Jendresen went to Hershey, Pennsylvania, to meet the real Capt Winters on his chicken farm, and pore over the cache of letters and journals which Easy Company veterans had sent to their former leader.
