Are you ready for a moral reckoning?
Creator of The Crown, Peter Morgan, is bringing Ira Levin’s 1976 classic novel, The Boys from Brazil, to the screen. The limited series tells a tale of obsession, vengeance, and the terrifying persistence of hatred. It asks: When the world chooses to forget its darkest history, who will fight to keep the memory — and the justice — alive?
The five-part adaptation will star Jeremy Strong, August Diehl, Daniel Brühl, and Gillian Anderson. Shira Haas and Lizzy Caplan also star.
Morgan and London-based production companies World Productions and Orchid Pictures will produce the historical thriller series, with Suzanne Mackie executive producing for Orchid Pictures. “Building on his extraordinary work with The Crown, Peter [Morgan] continues to examine the political and emotional forces which, through the 20th century, have molded the world we live in today,” Mackie, who continues her long-standing professional partnership with Morgan from The Crown, tells Netflix. “That he does so via the intimate human stories within the sweep of history makes his storytelling powerfully relatable.”
The series will be solely directed by Alex Gabassi (Black Doves, The Crown). Gabassi will also executive produce alongside Mackie and Simon Heath (Line of Duty, Save Me) for World Productions. The Crown alumni Oona O’Beirn and Andy Stebbing will serve as producers. “We’re thrilled to have assembled such an exceptional team, both in front of and behind the camera, and to be working with the super-talented director Alex Gabassi again for this new limited series for Netflix,” says Mackie. “We can’t wait to bring Peter Morgan’s bold reimagining of Ira Levin’s The Boys from Brazil to the screen.”
Set across three decades, from the immediate aftermath of World War II through the political turbulence of the 1970s, The Boys from Brazil follows Holocaust survivor and Nazi hunter Yakov Liebermann in his lifelong crusade to bring Nazi fugitives to justice — a crusade that has cost him nearly everything.
When one of his young protégées working undercover in Brazil learns of a shocking Nazi plan, Liebermann is in a race against time to expose an unimaginable truth: Doctor Johann-Friedrich Meinhardt, a sadistic Nazi scientist believed to be long-dead, is alive and orchestrating a diabolical project to spark the rise of a Fourth Reich.
Jeremy Strong (The Apprentice, Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere) will take on the role of Yakov Liebermann alongside August Diehl (A Hidden Life, Inglourious Basterds) as Johann-Friedrich Meinhardt. Daniel Brühl (Rush, Inglourious Basterds) stars as Von Harteneck, and Gillian Anderson (The Crown, Sex Education) joins as Frieda Steiner.
Shira Haas (Unorthodox, Captain America: Brave New World) also stars as Anna Koehler, and Lizzy Caplan (Masters of Sex, Fleishman Is in Trouble) plays Hannah Liebermann.
There’s no word yet on the release date, but filming commences next month in the United Kingdom, Germany, Bulgaria, and Spain.
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