Justin Kurzel’s “The Narrow Road to the Deep North,” the lushly lensed prestige series starring Jacob Elordi as an Australian war hero, has been licensed by Sony Pictures Television to Prime Video in the U.S.
Prime Video already had the series in a number of territories and will premiere it on April 18 in the U.S., Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Based on the Booker Prize-winning novel by Richard Flanagan, the Australian drama series was written by Shaun Grant (“Nitram,” “Mindhunter”).
The limited series is executive produced by Jo Porter and Rachel Gardner of Curio Pictures, a part of Sony Pictures Television, with executive producers Richard Flanagan, Shaun Grant, and Justin Kurzel. They are joined by producer Alex Taussig. Principal production funding is provided by Screen Australia, with assistance from the NSW Government through Screen NSW’s Made in NSW and PDV Funds.
Elordi stars as Lieutenant-Colonel Dorrigo Evans, a celebrated World War II hero who is haunted by his experiences in a Japanese prisoner of war camp and memories of an affair with Amy Mulvaney (Odessa Young) that sustained him through the darkest of times in this adaptation of Richard Flanagan’s Booker Prize-winning novel.
Elordi and Odessa Young star opposite Oscar nominee Ciarán Hinds (“Belfast”) as the older Dorrigo Evans, Olivia DeJonge (“Elvis”), Simon Baker (“Limbo”), Show Kasamatsu (“Tokyo Vice”), Heather Mitchell (“Ricky Stanicky”) and Thomas Weatherall (“Heartbreak High”).
The series world premiered to stellar reviews at the Berlin Film Festival with Kurzel and Elordi on the ground.
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