Five months of manufacturing has been accomplished on Jacob Elordi-starring drama sequence “The Narrow Road to the Deep North,” which is about within the “Euphoria” and “Saltburn” star’s native Australia.
An adaptation of the Booker Prize-winning novel by Richard Flanaghan, the five-part sequence is love-story set in opposition to the backdrop of World War II. Elordi portrays Lieutenant-Colonel Dorrigo Evans and co-stars with Odessa Young (“Mothering Sunday,” “Shirley”). Ciaran Hinds (“Belfast”) performs the older model of Evans.
The tailored screenplay was penned by Shaun Grant (“Nitram,” “Mindhunter,” “Penguin Bloom”) and the present is directed by Justin Kurzel (“Nitram,” “Shantaram”).
Production is by Curio Pictures with Prime Video releasing the title in Australia, New Zealand and Canada. In different territories, it distributed by Sony Pictures Television.
Flanaghan’s novel, printed in 2013, chronicles a century dominated by conflict, with compelled labor on the Thai-Burma Railway and a short love affair as its dramatic coronary heart.
The story is advised over a number of time durations by an Australian physician who was taken prisoner throughout World War II and have become an unlikely and uncomfortable hero after the conflict’s finish. The journey strikes from the physician’s’ childhood, by means of to his expertise as a prisoner-of-war on the Thailand-Burma Railway as a younger man, and later in life, as a revered surgeon and Australian conflict hero.
“’The Narrow Road to the Deep North’ is a love story to sustain audiences through the darkest of times, an intimate character study illustrating the strength of the human spirit in the face of adversity, and an investigation into a marriage and an unforgettable love affair,” stated Prime Video in a press release.
Jacob Elordi and Odessa Young in The Narrow Road to the Deep North
Prime Video, Curio Pictures, and Sony Pictures Television
The beforehand introduced forged additionally contains Olivia DeJonge (“Elvis”), Heather Mitchell (“Love Me,” “Upright”), Thomas Weatherall (“Heartbreak High”), Show Kasamatsu (“Tokyo Vice”), Charles A, and Simon Baker (“Limbo,” “Breath”).
The producers additionally confirmed the casting of Essie Davis, William Lodder, Eduard Geyl, Christian Byers, Sam Parsonson, Reagan Mannix, Fabian McCallum, Caelan McCarthy, David Howell, Abe Taki, Yamaguchi Masa and Fujii Akira.
Jo Porter and Rachel Gardner from Curio Pictures each function govt producers. Kurzel, Grant and Flanagan are additionally govt producers, with Alexandra Taussig producing. Major manufacturing funding got here from Screen Australia, with help from the NSW Government by means of Screen NSW’s Made in NSW and PDV Funds.