Acclaimed Israeli actress Shira Haas will appear in a recently announced five-part Netflix adaptation of the Ira Levin novel, The Boys from Brazil.
The series’s creator is Peter Moran, who also made The Crown.
Levin’s novel was made into a 1978 movie starring Gregory Peck and Laurence Olivier and tells the story of Nazi hunter Yakov Liebermann, who discovers that Josef Mengele, the sadistic doctor from Auschwitz, is alive and is trying to carry out a plan to reestablish the Third Reich through cloning Nazi leaders in Latin America.
Jeremy Strong (who starred in Succession and is in the new film, Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere) will play Liebermann in the remake.
Other Haas works
Haas, an Emmy- and Golden Globe-nominated actress best known for the TV series Shtisel and Unorthodox, will play a young investigator working alongside Liebermann. She won the Best Actress Award at the Tribeca Film Festival for Ruthy Pribar’s Asia. Most recently, she appeared in Captain America: Brave New World, alongside Harrison Ford.
Other cast members include August Diehl, Daniel Brühl, Gillian Anderson, and Lizzy Caplan.
Filming will begin in December in the UK, Germany, Bulgaria, and Spain.