The production of Steven Spielberg's 'Saving Private Ryan' was arduous from beginning to end, and that extended to the cast.
Leaving the fate of a movie like 'Saving Private Ryan' to the toss of a coin isn't a typical Hollywood strategy, but it's hard to say it didn't work.
Every post-1998 war film owes a debt to Saving Private Ryan, a stone-cold Steven Spielberg ... allowed on Omaha Beach in Normandy, which is now a historic landmark. Instead, Spielberg filmed ...