Travis Fimmel and Simon Baker Head Cast of Netflix Series ‘Boy Swallows Universe’
variety.comPatrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Travis Fimmel (“Vikings,” “Warcraft”), Simon Baker (“The Mentalist,” “Breath”) and Phoebe Tonkin head the adult cast of “Boy Swallows Universe,” an Australia-set fantasy-drama series.
Production has now begun in Brisbane, Queensland. The eight-part limited series is an adaptation of Trent Dalton’s international best-selling novel “Boy Swallows Universe” and is being produced by Brouhaha Entertainment, together with Anonymous Content and Chapter One, for streaming platform Netflix. “Boy Swallows Universe” follows working-class Brisbane teenager Eli Bell in a whirlwind story about drug addiction, ex-cons, poverty, violence and the discovery of hope through the power of love.
Dalton has pitched the story as involving “a boy who receives a message on a red rotary dial phone in a secret underground room that tells him he must bust into Brisbane’s notorious Boggo Road Prison to save his mum’s life on Christmas Day.” The roles of the young Eli and Gus Bell will be played by Felix Cameron (“Penguin Bloom”) appearing as Eli Bell, and Lee Tiger Halley (“The Heights,” “Featherweight”) as Gus Bell.
The show’s directors are Bharat Nalluri (“Spooks,” “Hustle,” “Life on Mars”), Jocelyn Moorhouse (“Proof,” “How to Make an American Quilt”) and Kim Mordaunt (“The Rocket,” “Fires,” “Wakefield”).
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