Would their presence in Normandy announce a sequel to the cult film We have to save the soldier Ryan (1998), whose action took place in the middle of the Allied landings? In any case, its director Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks, who played Captain Miller, landed in Caen this Wednesday June 5, 2024, reports News.
But if the two superstars landed in France, it was only to attend ceremonies planned in Colleville-sur-Mer and Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer, two villages close to the Normandy beaches of the Allied landings.
“Symbols” of the landing
It must be said that these Hollywood figures, who also co-produced, in 2001, the series Band of Brothers, have become symbols of the representation of the landing in cinema. As such, they had already been invited to the 2004 commemorations, reminds Le Figaro.
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Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg will therefore join two major ceremonies: firstly the American-French one in Colleville-sur-Mer (12:30 p.m.), where the famous American cemetery is located which houses the graves of 9,387 soldiers who died in combat ; then at the international ceremony in Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer.