‘Masters of the Air’ Music Opens 80th D-Day Anniversary in Normandy as Artisans Acknowledge the Show’s Heroism and Importance
07.06.2024 - 03:53
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Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor “Masters of the Air” costume designer Colleen Atwood brought along Austin Butler’s jacket to Variety’s TV FYC Fest. “It’s Austin Butler’s jacket that he wore, Maj. Cleven’s jacket and hat, and I thought, ‘Well, I should bring it.’ It’s D-Day.
People like seeing real stuff,'” Atwood told the audience. Atwood was joined by her fellow artisans from the Apple TV+ series: supervising sound editor and re-recording mixer Michael Minkler, composer Blake Neely, director of photography Richard Rutkowski and music supervisor Deva Anderson. The panelists acknowledged the 80th anniversary of D-Day with Neely sharing news.
“I just found out that a piece from ‘Masters of the Air’ is what opened the D-Day Normandy event,” he told his fellow department heads. Adapted from Donald L. Miller’s book of the same name, the miniseries is the third installment of the “Band of Brothers” trilogy.
“Masters of the Air” follows the wartime ventures of the 100th Bomb Group, who performed dangerous aviation raids over Nazi Germany. Austin Butler, Callum Turner, Anthony Boyle, Nate Mann, Rafferty Law, Barry Keoghan, Josiah Cross, Branden Cook and Ncuti Gatwa lead the principal cast. Atwood explained how she had a nine-month prep period to make the flight outfits and costumes from scratch.
“We made over 300 costumes for the principals,” she said. The leather jackets alone were a global undertaking with Atwood working with leather specialist Gary Eastman to build the jackets, and the inner sheepskin lining came from Scotland and England. The latter episodes of the series follow the heroes as they get caught behind enemy lines and are imprisoned in prisoner of war camps.