Peter Morgan, the creator of “The Crown,” is behind a TV series adaptation of the Ira Levin novel “The Boys From Brazil” that has Jeremy Strong (“Succession”) set as the series lead character Yakov Liebermann, as the Nazi hunter project has landed at Netflix with a group of casting additions being announced.
A report from Deadline has revealed that the fictionalized story of a group of German Nazis flourishing in South America as Dr. Josef Mengele (the Nazi Party doctor was known as the Angel of Death) attempts to launch the Fourth Reich will see Gillian Anderson (“The Crown,” “Sex Education”), Daniel Brühl (“Rush,” “Inglourious Basterds”), August Diehl (“A Hidden Life,” “Inglourious Basterds”) enlisted to play the respective roles of Frieda Steiner, Von Harteneck, and Johann-Friedrich Meinhardt.
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They’re not the only ones joining “The Boys From Brazil” as Shira Haas (“Unorthodox,” “Captain America: Brave New World”) will play Anna Koehler, and Lizzy Caplan (“Masters of Sex”, Fleishman is in Trouble”) has taken the role of Hannah Liebermann. Filming on the 5-part limited series is said to begin next month, with locations said to include the United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, and Bulgaria.
An original logline for the 1976 novel, ripe for a modern iteration, via Amazon:
“Alive and hiding in South America, the fiendish Nazi Dr. Josef Mengele gathers a group of former colleagues for a horrifying project―the creation of the Fourth Reich. Barry Kohler, a young investigative journalist, gets wind of the project and informs famed Nazi hunter Ezra Lieberman, but before he can relay the evidence, Kohler is killed. Thus, Ira Levin opens one of his career’s strangest and most masterful novels. Why has Mengele marked a number of harmless aging men for murder? What is the hidden link that binds them? What interest can they possibly hold for their killers: six former SS men dispatched from South America by the most wanted Nazi still alive, the notorious “Angel of Death “? One man alone must answer these questions and stop the killings―Lieberman, himself aging and thought by some to be losing his grip on reality.”
The source material had been previously adapted for the big screen with the 1978 film helmed by acclaimed filmmaker Franklin J. Schaffner (“Planet of the Apes,” “Patton,” “Papillon”) that starred Gregory Peck, Laurence Olivier, Steve Guttenberg, and James Mason.
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