Austin Butler is a dashing Air Force pilot in Masters Of The Air trailer

Let’s play “try to name the movie.” close your eyes for a second. You hear Austin Butler, putting on a gravelly, slightly-accented voice, having one last conversation with his girl before shipping off to combat. Oh, and by the way, Tom Hanks is involved. Think you’ve got it? Well, it’s a trick question: It’s not Elvis, and it’s not even a movie, and plus, you clicked on a headline about Masters Of The Air, the Apple TV+ series premiering January 26. Gotcha!

Really, though, Masters Of The Air doesn’t bear much resemblance to Elvis, though Butler’s accent work brings back fond memories. What the nine-part miniseries most resembles is Band Of Brothers, from the same all-star production team of Hanks, Steven Spielberg, and Gary Goetzman. Like that Emmy-winning World War II miniseries, this show has a robust cast filled with a new generation of leading men and up-and-comers, including Butler, Callum Turner, Barry Keoghan, and Ncuti Gatwa.

“Based on Donald L. Miller’s book of the same name, and scripted by John Orloff, Masters Of The Air follows the men of the 100th Bomb Group (the “Bloody Hundredth”) as they conduct perilous bombing raids over Nazi Germany and grapple with the frigid conditions, lack of oxygen and sheer terror of combat conducted at 25,000 feet in the air,” reads a synopsis from Apple TV+. “Portraying the psychological and emotional price paid by these young men as they helped destroy the horror of Hitler’s Third Reich, is at the heart of Masters Of The Air. Some were shot down and captured; some were wounded or killed. And some were lucky enough to make it home. Regardless of individual fate, a toll was exacted on them all.”

Anthony Boyle, Nate Mann, Rafferty Law, Josiah Cross, and Branden Cook also star in Masters Of The Air, with directing from Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck, Cary Joji Fukunaga, Dee Rees and Tim Van Patten.