Netflix has officially ordered the limited series adaptation of The Boys From Brazil based on Ira Levin’s 1976 thriller novel. It was previously announced that Succession star Jeremy Strong has signed on for the leading role of Yakov Lieberman.
In addition to the series order, the streamer has also announced new cast members who will be joining Strong in the five-part historical thriller: Gillian Anderson (The Abandons) as Frieda Steiner, Daniel Brühl (Rush, Inglourious Basterds) as Von Harteneck, August Diehl (Inglourious Basterds) as Johann-Friedrich Meinhardt, Shira Haas (Unorthodox) as Anna Koehler, and Lizzy Caplan (Masters of Sex) as Hannah Liebermann. Production is expected to begin next month in the UK, Germany, Bulgaria, and Spain.
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The Boys From Brazil hails from creator Peter Morgan, who’s best known for his work on the critically acclaimed period drama The Crown. The show is executive-produced by Suzanne Mackie for Orchid Pictures, Simon Heath for World Productions, and Alex Gabassi, who’s also set to direct. Oona O’Beirn and Andy Stebbing have also boarded the project as producers.
“Part historical thriller, part moral reckoning, The Boys from Brazil is about obsession, vengeance, and the terrifying persistence of hatred. It asks: When the world chooses to forget its darkest history, who will fight to keep the memory and the justice alive?” reads the synopsis.
“Set across three decades from the immediate aftermath of World War II through the political turbulence of the 1970s, the series 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: Meinhardt, a sadistic Nazi scientist he believed long dead, is alive and orchestrating a diabolical project to spark the rise of a Fourth Reich.”