Execs on NBC‘s The Americas had been looking for “the American version of David Attenborough” when reserving Tom Hanks for the upcoming epic wildlife collection.
Mike Gunton, a storied pure historical past exec who has labored on the likes of Planet Earth and Dynasties, stated he had “written down who I wanted to do the music and who I wanted to be the narrator” when embarking on making the present practically 5 years in the past, and had scribbled “‘Tom Hanks?’.”
“That’s who I wanted,” he added at MIPTV. “He had such curiosity and his talent is so immense he can turn his voice and delivery to every single nuance to the sorts of tone we see in all these stories.”
Toby Gorman, who runs Universal Television Alternative Studio, labeled the present “the most expensive unscripted project in NBCUniversal’s history.”
He stated “we talked about who is the American version of David Attenborough” earlier than deciding on the double Oscar-winner.
“When we embarked on this we wanted to go as big as possible and after some conversations we said internally that there was a list of one,” he added. “We wanted Tom, it just felt right. What we didn’t know is whether he would want to do it.”
Hanks joins a rising line of Hollywood stars who’ve narrated huge pure historical past reveals, following within the footsteps of the likes of Paul Rudd and Benedict Cumberbatch.
The Americas employs revolutionary filmmaking expertise that showcases the wonders, secrets and techniques and fragilities of the Americas – Earth’s largest landmass and the one one to stretch between each poles – and reveal untold wildlife tales that join with thousands and thousands around the globe.
Attendees at MIPTV had been handled to unique in-the-room footage together with drone pictures of bears and suction cameras connected to whales.
The continent is “the one place on the planet that no one has ever done,” Gunton stated.
“The low hanging fruit has been done and the difficult things have been left,” he added. “But that was our ambition. We have been able to deliver things in ways we have never seen before.”
The pair had been talking at MIPTV on Tuesday of the market. The Americas will launch subsequent 12 months.