If you’re making a World War II movie withTom Hanks, you’d better do your research.
“I got pretty in-depth with it.”
“It’s a highly preserved World War II ship,” says the director.

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“That veracity lends a drama to it,” he says.
“The audience is submerged in the culture of this emergency situation in a radio control tower.
The drama lives underneath the procedural dialogue.

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From the beginning, this was Tom’s goal as a screenwriter.
We are in many of those circumstances right now.”
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