Peter Morgan to adapt Ira Levin's The Boys from Brazil for Netflix

Peter Morgan Is Adapting Ira Levin’s Acclaimed Thriller The Boys from Brazil for Netflix

The five-part series will star Jeremy Strong, August Diehl, Daniel Brühl, and Gillian Anderson. Shira Haas and Lizzy Caplan also star. Filming commences next month in the United Kingdom, Germany, Bulgaria, and Spain. Peter Morgan previously created The Crown for Netflix. This new series is based on Ira Levin’s 1976 novel. A film version made in 1978 has an exceptional cast, including Gregory Peck, Laurence Olivier, Jeremy Black, James Mason, Steve Guttenberg, Lilli Palmer and Denholm Elliott.

**What is The Boys from Brazil about**

From the press release:

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.

Who are the cast

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.

Netflix has specifically ruled out a release date. We’ll bring more news as we get it.