Netflix is creating a sequence adaptation of the Ira Levin novel The Boys from Brazil with Peter Morgan writing and Jeremy Robust set to star
Again in 1976, Rosemary’s Child and The Stepford Wives creator Ira Levin introduced the world a conspiracy novel known as The Boys from Brazil – and since Levin’s works had beforehand confirmed to be the makings of profitable movie diversifications, it’s no shock that The Boys from Brazil was shortly become a film. Launched in 1978, that function adaptation of the novel was directed by Franklin J. Schaffner from a screenplay by Heywood Gould and starred Gregory Peck, Laurence Olivier (who obtained an Oscar nomination for his efficiency), Steve Guttenberg, and James Mason. That movie isn’t fairly as widespread as Rosemary’s Child or The Stepford Wives, but it surely has a robust following – and now Deadline studies that the Netflix streaming service is about to construct on that following with a sequence adaptation of Levin’s novel.
This new tackle The Boys from Brazil is being written by Peter Morgan, who can even function an govt producer alongside Suzanne Mackie of Orchid Footage, and is about to star Jeremy Robust of Succession, who’s presently within the operating for a Greatest Supporting Actor Oscar for his efficiency in The Apprentice.
Morgan’s earlier credit embrace the Oscar-nominated screenplays for The Queen and Frost/Nixon. He additionally created and served as showrunner on the Netflix sequence The Crown.
The Boys from Brazil will see Robust taking up the position of Lieberman, a well-known Nazi hunter who’s drawn to analyze a conspiracy spun to him by a younger Nazi hunter (performed by Steve Guttenberg within the unique movie). Lieberman is very skeptical of the younger man’s claims that infamous Dr. Josef Mengele is in Paraguay, beginning on a diabolical plan to reestablish the Third Reich via a cloning plan put in place after Germany misplaced World Struggle II. When the younger Nazi hunter is killed, Lieberman heads to Paraguay to uncover a fact that seems to be horrific. Peck performed Mengele within the movie, and Lieberman is the position Olivier earned his Oscar nomination for.
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