The episode creation team made 180 missions across over 8,700 miles of scenery
THE Tom Hanks takes viewers across the Western Hemisphere in the first trailer for NBCUniversal and the BBC’s wildlife documentary series, “The Americas.”
The Oscar-winning actor, who was chosen by the producers, is the narrator in the ten episode serieswhich uses cutting-edge technology to immerse audiences in ecosystems across North and South America.
Executive produced by Mike Gandon, with music by the Oscar- and Grammy-winning composer Hans Zimmer series “The Americas” will debut with two back-to-back episodes in February.
Toby Gorman, president of Universal Television Alternative Studio previously told THR that casting Tom Hanks as the narrator was easy.
“We wondered what the American version of BBC wildlife documentary legend David Attenborough is? We agreed internally that there was a list of one: Tom Hanks. What we didn’t know was if he would agree to do it. But he loved it,” Gorman said.
Each hour-long episode will focus on a different region in Americathe Atlantic Coast, Mexico, the Wild West, the Amazon, the Gulf Coast, the Andes, the Caribbean and the West Coast. The episodic team told THR that they made 180 missions over 8,700 miles of scenery to deliver the series, which is “the most expensive unscripted project in NBC history”according to Gorman.
