Yahoo Lifestyle Jacob Elordi War Drama ‘The Narrow Road to the Deep North’ Acquired by the BBC (EXCLUSIVE)
Jacob Elordi drama series “The Narrow Road to the Deep North” has been acquired by the BBC for the U.K.
The five-part adaptation of Richard Flanagan’s Booker Prize-winning novel, which also stars Ciarán Hinds and Odessa Young, will be broadcast in the U.K. on BBC One and the BBC’s proprietary streamer iPlayer. It will drop in Canada, Australia and New Zealand on Prime Video.
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A premiere date has not been set yet.
Encompassing both the horrors of war and intimacy of deep love, “The Narrow Road To The Deep North” sees Elordi portray Dorrigo Evans, a young man who experiences some of life’s most extreme ups and downs, from embarking on a passionate love affair with Amy Mulvaney (Young) to being held captive in a POW camp and, eventually, becoming a revered surgeon and reluctant war hero. Hinds plays an older version of Evans.
The series is produced by Sony Pictures Television-backed Curio Pictures, presented by Amazon MGM Studios, and directed by Justin Kurzel (“Assassin’s Creed”) from a screenplay by Shaun Grant.
“‘The Narrow Road to the Deep North’ is a complex, beautiful, and heart-wrenching series which sensitively interweaves several stages in the life of surgeon Dorrigo Evans, from the passion of first love, to the unflinching depiction of life as a prisoner of war in occupied Burma,” said Sue Deeks, the BBC’s head of program acquisition. “We are so very pleased to bring this truly exceptional adaptation to BBC viewers”.
Curio Pictures’ Jo Porter and Rachel Gardner, who both serve as executive producers, added: “‘The Narrow Road to the Deep North’ is an epic tale of the sustaining power of love under the harshest of circumstances. Curio is honoured to help bring to this spectacular story to life with creators Shaun Grant and Justin Kurzel, novelist Richard Flanagan and our brilliant cast and crew. We can’t wait for audiences to see it.”
Alexandra Taussig produces with Porter, Gardner, Kurzel, Grant and Flanagan as exec producers. Screen Australia, with assistance from the NSW Government through Screen NSW’s Made in NSW and PDV Funds, provided principal production funding.
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