The article also mentions budget, which then led to HBO dropping the production before COVID. I hope it's good, but I fear when something gets handed around for that long, the material will suffer.
I'd heard budget was the reason HBO dropped it, too. That also seemed curious since
Band of Brothers and
The Pacific were huge successes for the network, and another Spielberg/Hanks WWII miniseries could only generate positive buzz at a time when they don't really have any comparable headline shows in the offing. The streaming networks depend on bringing in new subscribers, and usually you do that by enticing them with new and exclusive material. For example, Disney paid through the nose for the rights to and production for
Hamilton, but it also brought in a shitload of new subscribers, so in the end it was a net gain.
Then again, the current Warner Bros leadership seems determined to spike the brand value into the ground ("Max"?) so maybe it was for the best.
No, what I was curious about were all the unexplained delays since AppleTV picked it up. This had to have been a huge investment, even for Apple's deep pockets, so if you're going to drag out release forever, you'd think there would be at least some news as to why. There's been next to nothing in the press though, and Apple's attitude seems to be "eh, we'll get around to it."