Peter Morgan, World Productions and Suzanne Mackie’s Orchid Pictures are to produce a 5×60 conspiracy thriller reimagining Ira Levin’s classic novel, The Boys From Brazil.
The series is Executive Produced by Suzanne Mackie for Orchid Pictures, who continues her long-standing professional partnership with Peter Morgan from The Crown. Bafta and Emmy award-winning producer Simon Heath (Line of Duty, Save Me) is Executive Producer for World Productions. Additionally, The Crown alumni Oona O’Beirn and Andy Stebbing are Producers on the project. Alex Gabassi returns to Netflix following his direction on Black Doves S1 and The Crown. Alex will also act as an Executive Producer alongside Suzanne and Simon.
Jeremy Strong (The Apprentice, Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere) will take on the role of Yakov Liebermann alongside August Diehl (A Hidden Life and Inglourious Basterds) as Johann-Friedrich Meinhardt. Daniel Brühl (Rush, Inglourious Basterds) stars as Von Harteneck and Gillian Anderson (The Crown and 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 and Fleishman is in Trouble) stars as Hannah Liebermann.
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.
The Boys From Brazil continues Peter Morgan’s creative partnership with Netflix after the multi award-winning series, The Crown concluded in 2023.
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.”
Filming commences next month in the UK, Germany, Bulgaria and Spain.
Photography: Andreas Ortner
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