THE BOYS FROM BRAZIL: NETFLIX COMMISSION NEW DRAMA ADAPTATION OF IRA LEVIN'S CLASSIC NOVEL

Netflix have commissioned World Productions and Orchid Pictures to produce a reimagining of Ira Levin's classic novel, The Boys From Brazil. The 5x60' series will be written by The Crown's Peter Morgan.

Set across three decades from the immediate aftermath of WW2 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 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 he believed long dead, is alive and orchestrating a diabolical project to spark the rise of a Fourth Reich.

Jeremy Strong will lead the cast as Yakov Liebermann alongside August Diehl as Johann-Friedrich Meinhardt, Daniel Brühl as Von Harteneck and Gillian Anderson as Frieda Steiner. Shira Haas also stars as Anna Koehler and Lizzy Caplan stars as Hannah Liebermann.

Suzanne Mackie, Executive Producer and Founder of Orchid Pictures, said: "Building on his extraordinary work with The Crown, Peter continues to examine the political and emotional forces which, through the 20th century, have moulded the world we live in today. That he does so via the intimate human stories within the sweep of history makes his storytelling powerfully relatable...

"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.  We can’t wait to bring Peter Morgan’s bold reimagining of Ira Levin’s The Boys from Brazil to the screen."

More details will be announced in due course.