Tammy Perez / ATX TV Festival
AUSTIN, Texas—If you ask Graham Yost—prolific TV producer with a resume including
Band of Brothers, The Pacific, and
Justified—accuracy in on-screen military portrayals is a relatively new phenomenon, similar to how tech ranging from the
latest hacker tools to
futuristic autonomous bots have recently become increasingly grounded in reality. Ground zero for this idea won't surprise any fans of this particular entertainment genre.
"In some historical military films, there have been some training of actors, but I think a lot of this really starts with
Dale Dye and
[Saving] Private Ryan [1998]," Yost says during ATX TV Festival's panel on modern military television. "That set a template for people, and we wouldn't have done
Band without it. In fact, when the cast of
Band gets together every year, the day they pick for their reunion is the first day of bootcamp. That's when they felt they came together as a unit."
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