Yahoo Lifestyle Jeremy Strong to Hunt Nazis in Netflix’s The Boys From Brazil Reboot From the Creator of The Crown
In his second major TV role since Succession ended its four-season run — and his first since that Super Bowl Sunday Dunkin’ commercial — Emmy winner and Academy Award nominee Jeremy Strong is set to star in a Netflix adaptation of The Boys From Brazil, from The Crown creator Peter Morgan.
In the 1976 Ira Levin novel that begat a 1978 film starring Sir Laurence Olivier and Gregory Peck, The Boys From Brazil finds longtime Nazi hunter Yakov Liebermann entangled in a web of unimaginable horror after he is tipped off to a sinister conspiracy hatching in the depths of South America: a plan to establish a new, globe-spanning Fourth Reich.
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Olivier filled the role of Liebermann in the 1978 film, which was directed by Franklin J. Schaffner, and earned one of his many Academy Award nominations for the role. Peck played the nefarious Dr. Josef Mengele, while a pre-Police Academy Steve Guttenberg played amateur Nazi hunter Barry Kohler.
Strong will fill the role of Liebermann in the Netflix adaptation, our sister site Deadline was first to report.
In addition to his Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning run as Succession‘s Kendall Roy, Strong’s previous TV credits include Masters of Sex, Mob City and The Good Wife. He is currently up for an Oscar, for his portrayal of Roy Cohn in the Sebastian Stan-led film The Apprentice.
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