Flanagan will also be an EP alongside Kurzel and Grant. Porter, Curio Pictures managing director, will executive produce with Rachel Gardner, Curio’s creative director.

Grant’s grandfather was a POW who worked on the Thai-Burma railway. Kurzel and Grant boarded the series in 2019, continuing their longstanding collaboration that includes Nitram, The True History of the Kelly Gang and Snowtown. Sony has described the project as “an intimate character study, a depiction of both sides of war, an investigation into a marriage and a portrait of an unforgettable love affair.” Their romance sustains and haunts him through his darkest days.

While the project was originally being developed by Fremantle, former director of scripted Jo Porter brought the project with her to Sony Pictures Television’s Curio Pictures (formerly Playmaker) when she left in late 2020.ĭue to be a five-part series, Flanagan’s The Narrow Road to the Deep North opens in 1943 within a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp on the Thai-Burma railway.Įlordi will play the lead character of Dorrigo Evans, an Australian surgeon and reluctant leader of the camp, who is haunted by his love affair with his uncle’s young wife Amy two years earlier. Euphoria star Jacob Elordi will return to Australia to lead the cast of The Narrow Road to the Deep North, director Justin Kurzel and writer Shaun Grant’s series adaptation of Richard Flanagan’s 2014 Man Booker Prize winning novel.

The narrow road to the north