Jacob Elordi War Drama ‘The Narrow Road to the Deep North’ Acquired by the BBC (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comK.J. Yossman 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. 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”.
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