If you spend ample time on #BookTok or social media websites like GoodReads, then odds are you're at least familiar with the name "Freida McFadden." A practicing physician and book author, McFadden is the writer behind several bestselling psychological thrillers like The Housemaid, Never Lie, The Inmate, and The Teacher.
According to an exclusive report from The Hollywood Reporter, Netflix is teaming up with Shawn Levy's production banner 21 Laps Entertainment to adapt Never Lie as part of the company's first-look feature deal.
On GoodReads, Never Lie is McFadden's most popular book apart from The Housemaid and The Housemaid's Secret, with more than 693k users logging it since it was first published in 2022.
Never Lie takes place almost entirely inside the former manor of acclaimed psychiatrist Dr. Adrienne Hale, who went missing four years before the novel begins. Newlywed couple Tricia and Ethan think the house might be perfect...
According to an exclusive report from The Hollywood Reporter, Netflix is teaming up with Shawn Levy's production banner 21 Laps Entertainment to adapt Never Lie as part of the company's first-look feature deal.
On GoodReads, Never Lie is McFadden's most popular book apart from The Housemaid and The Housemaid's Secret, with more than 693k users logging it since it was first published in 2022.
Never Lie takes place almost entirely inside the former manor of acclaimed psychiatrist Dr. Adrienne Hale, who went missing four years before the novel begins. Newlywed couple Tricia and Ethan think the house might be perfect...
- 7/30/2024
- by Mads Lennon
- 1428 Elm
21 Laps Entertainment, the production banner founded by Deadpool & Wolverine filmmaker Shawn Levy, and Netflix have teamed up to adapt Never Lie, the best-seller by author Freida McFadden.
Netflix has acquired the rights to the psychological thriller for 21 Laps to develop and produce the adaptation. Levy will produce along with partners Dan Levine and Dan Cohen. The project will fall under the company’s first-look feature deal with the streamer.
Described as being in the tone of Gone Girl, Never Lie follows a newlywed couple on the search for the house of their dreams when they come upon a remote manor that once belonged to a renowned psychiatrist, a woman who vanished four years earlier. Trapped at the estate due to an intense blizzard, the wife happens upon a secret room containing audio tapes of the psychiatrist’s interviews with her patients, discovering one session is with a sociopath who sounds scarily familiar to her.
Netflix has acquired the rights to the psychological thriller for 21 Laps to develop and produce the adaptation. Levy will produce along with partners Dan Levine and Dan Cohen. The project will fall under the company’s first-look feature deal with the streamer.
Described as being in the tone of Gone Girl, Never Lie follows a newlywed couple on the search for the house of their dreams when they come upon a remote manor that once belonged to a renowned psychiatrist, a woman who vanished four years earlier. Trapped at the estate due to an intense blizzard, the wife happens upon a secret room containing audio tapes of the psychiatrist’s interviews with her patients, discovering one session is with a sociopath who sounds scarily familiar to her.
- 7/30/2024
- by Borys Kit
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Adjust your radio frequencies –– ’s epic broadcasts a tale of courage, hope, and human connection to the world.
The four-part limited series based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Anthony Doerr has been nominated for four Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Cinematography and Outstanding Music Composition for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie.
But before you watch or re-watch, Levy wants to make one thing clear: “My central message to fans of the book — and I’m screaming this from the top of the mountain here — is, ‘I’m as big a fan as you,’ Levy says. “[My goal was] to do justice to this gorgeous novel that touched me deeply.”
The director’s obsession with Doerr’s novel goes back years. He first read it over the holiday season shortly after its publication in 2014 and was immediately sucked into its orbit. “What I remember most is devouring the book,...
The four-part limited series based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Anthony Doerr has been nominated for four Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Cinematography and Outstanding Music Composition for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie.
But before you watch or re-watch, Levy wants to make one thing clear: “My central message to fans of the book — and I’m screaming this from the top of the mountain here — is, ‘I’m as big a fan as you,’ Levy says. “[My goal was] to do justice to this gorgeous novel that touched me deeply.”
The director’s obsession with Doerr’s novel goes back years. He first read it over the holiday season shortly after its publication in 2014 and was immediately sucked into its orbit. “What I remember most is devouring the book,...
- 7/17/2024
- by Anne Cohen
- Tudum - Netflix
Hugh Laurie has never won an Emmy. That seems like an egregious oversight on behalf of TV academy voters, considering the British actor starred as one of the best TV characters of this century in “House.” Still, 10 nominations (we’ll get to those later) and zero wins.
He could finally break that losing streak with Netflix’s “All the Light We Cannot See.” Adapted from Anthony Doerr‘s 2014 novel of the same name, written by Steven Knight, and directed by Shawn Levy, this miniseries depicts the lives of two teenagers during WWII — one a blind French girl and the other a German boy forced to fight for the Nazi regime. Laurie features as Uncle Étienne, a reclusive, agoraphobic WWI veteran suffering from Ptsd. Laurie has always been a classy performer and he again brings a lot of heart, warmth, and intelligence here to this role, as noted by several critics.
He could finally break that losing streak with Netflix’s “All the Light We Cannot See.” Adapted from Anthony Doerr‘s 2014 novel of the same name, written by Steven Knight, and directed by Shawn Levy, this miniseries depicts the lives of two teenagers during WWII — one a blind French girl and the other a German boy forced to fight for the Nazi regime. Laurie features as Uncle Étienne, a reclusive, agoraphobic WWI veteran suffering from Ptsd. Laurie has always been a classy performer and he again brings a lot of heart, warmth, and intelligence here to this role, as noted by several critics.
- 6/21/2024
- by Jacob Sarkisian
- Gold Derby
When Georgia Hunter first pitched her 2017 book, “We Were the Lucky Ones,” about her Polish ancestors’ fight for survival during the Holocaust, she was told World War II literature was a “saturated” market. This wasn’t meant to dissuade her from pushing forward with their harrowing story, but rather acknowledge that there is never a shortage of novels, films and series trying to reckon with the everlasting wounds of the war.
It was no different when Hunter and producers Thomas Kail and Erica Lipez adapted the book into Hulu’s eight-part limited series, which premiered in March.
“We knew with this kind of story in particular, you have to go beyond the logline,” Lipez tells Variety. “It was so much about making sure people heard the full story, particularly when we were pitching it. As someone who thought they had a really good Holocaust education, what I knew immediately upon...
It was no different when Hunter and producers Thomas Kail and Erica Lipez adapted the book into Hulu’s eight-part limited series, which premiered in March.
“We knew with this kind of story in particular, you have to go beyond the logline,” Lipez tells Variety. “It was so much about making sure people heard the full story, particularly when we were pitching it. As someone who thought they had a really good Holocaust education, what I knew immediately upon...
- 6/11/2024
- by Hunter Ingram
- Variety Film + TV
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David Benioff and D.B. Weiss turned to the Remembrance of Earth’s Past trilogy to help create their highly anticipated follow-up to Game of Thrones. Alongside Alexander Woo, they worked to parse a TV audience-friendly narrative from the popular, if scientifically dense, odyssey about an encounter with an alien civilization looking for a new and viable planet.
$34.49 $56.97 39% off Buy 'Remembrance of Earth's Past' trilogy on Amazon All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
The author of six novels, Doerr won the Pulitzer Prize for his 2014 novel about two teenagers on opposite sides of World War II. The Netflix miniseries — which also follows the tandem stories of Werner, the orphan forced to enlist as a Nazi soldier, and Marie-Laure, a blind girl sending radio broadcasts for the Allied soldiers — has garnered criticism for its relative dreariness, but its source material is full of hope and,...
David Benioff and D.B. Weiss turned to the Remembrance of Earth’s Past trilogy to help create their highly anticipated follow-up to Game of Thrones. Alongside Alexander Woo, they worked to parse a TV audience-friendly narrative from the popular, if scientifically dense, odyssey about an encounter with an alien civilization looking for a new and viable planet.
$34.49 $56.97 39% off Buy 'Remembrance of Earth's Past' trilogy on Amazon All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
The author of six novels, Doerr won the Pulitzer Prize for his 2014 novel about two teenagers on opposite sides of World War II. The Netflix miniseries — which also follows the tandem stories of Werner, the orphan forced to enlist as a Nazi soldier, and Marie-Laure, a blind girl sending radio broadcasts for the Allied soldiers — has garnered criticism for its relative dreariness, but its source material is full of hope and,...
- 6/8/2024
- by Seija Rankin
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
France has never had trouble getting people to fall in love with its many pleasures: the Eiffel Tower, the Palace of Versailles, the Louvre, and the island majesty of Mont Saint-Michel. It sells itself, which is probably why it is such a sought-after backdrop for television series.
But in the last year, France has been shown even more love than usual, as more than half a dozen shows, all vying for Emmy attention this season, explored the country through the ages. And no, this wasn’t some elaborate promotion for the upcoming 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.
From the 1600s to the modern day to a post-zombie apocalypse future, no cultural stone went unturned on TV this year, giving viewers even more reason to book their next (hopefully zombie-free) vacation.
This list of shows doesn’t even include the second seasons of Netflix’s teen romance “Heartstopper” (eligible for Children’s...
But in the last year, France has been shown even more love than usual, as more than half a dozen shows, all vying for Emmy attention this season, explored the country through the ages. And no, this wasn’t some elaborate promotion for the upcoming 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.
From the 1600s to the modern day to a post-zombie apocalypse future, no cultural stone went unturned on TV this year, giving viewers even more reason to book their next (hopefully zombie-free) vacation.
This list of shows doesn’t even include the second seasons of Netflix’s teen romance “Heartstopper” (eligible for Children’s...
- 6/3/2024
- by Hunter Ingram
- Variety Film + TV
A private Disney club is going public. Like, big-screen public.
Club 33, the exclusive dining club inside Disneyland, is getting the movie treatment.
Darren Lemke, who has worked on such family films as Goosebumps starring Jack Black and Shazam!, has been tapped to pen the script set in a fantastical world about the club.
Deadpool & Wolverine director Shawn Levy, Dan Levine and Dan Cohen are producing through 21 Laps Entertainment, the prolific banner behind Stranger Things and the recent Holocaust drama All The Light We Cannot See.
The project is said to exude the tone and vibes of Clue and Night at the Museum, Levy’s own fantasy-adventure trilogy set in a museum and featuring exhibits and historical figures to come to life.
For Club 33, the story centers on a young aspiring detective who receives a mysterious invite to the highly secretive Club 33. In this case, it’s a magical and...
Club 33, the exclusive dining club inside Disneyland, is getting the movie treatment.
Darren Lemke, who has worked on such family films as Goosebumps starring Jack Black and Shazam!, has been tapped to pen the script set in a fantastical world about the club.
Deadpool & Wolverine director Shawn Levy, Dan Levine and Dan Cohen are producing through 21 Laps Entertainment, the prolific banner behind Stranger Things and the recent Holocaust drama All The Light We Cannot See.
The project is said to exude the tone and vibes of Clue and Night at the Museum, Levy’s own fantasy-adventure trilogy set in a museum and featuring exhibits and historical figures to come to life.
For Club 33, the story centers on a young aspiring detective who receives a mysterious invite to the highly secretive Club 33. In this case, it’s a magical and...
- 5/21/2024
- by Borys Kit
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Lucy Bevan and Emily Brockman have never had an assignment like the one they faced with “All the Light They Cannot See,” the four-part Netflix wartime limited series that’s adapted from the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel from author Anthony Doerr. The UK-based casting directors were tasked with finding a pair of blind actors to play the dual lead role of Marie-Laure LeBlanc, a blind French girl. Executive producer and director Shawn Levy was insistent that they go for strict authenticity in casting. And Netflix was very much onboard. It tells you everything you need to know about partners Bevan and Brockman that hey viewed this incredibly difficult challenge as “a hugely appealing” thing, in Bevan’s words. “Casting a blind person in a leading role…well, it’s never been done before,” Bevan adds. “But that was very much part of the appeal.” Watch the exclusive video interview above.
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- 5/3/2024
- by Ray Richmond
- Gold Derby
Steven Knight has been round the block, and the British writer-creator of the iconic series “Peaky Blinders” knew when he was hired to adapt the novel “All the Light We Cannot See” as a four-part Netflix limited series that the primary challenge would essentially be to avoid trying to fix something that wasn’t broken. The 2014 book by author Anthony Doerr had not only been a runaway bestseller but also earned Doerr the Pulitzer Prize, and Knight had no intention of compromising its brilliance while writing the series. “It wasn’t ever a thought in my head to say, ‘Ok, I’m going to impose myself on this’,” he says. “It was actually quite the opposite. For me, as far as possible, it was more, ‘Let’s let this horse ride, let it run the way it is, where you feel as if you need to do something, then do something…...
- 4/25/2024
- by Ray Richmond
- Gold Derby
Injecting traces of whimsy into a historical tragedy is a precarious thing. If you do it well, you get Anthony Doerr’s All the Light We Cannot See, but if you do it poorly, you get Netflix’s All the Light We Cannot See. And it isn’t some clear-cut empirical thing, since Life Is Beautiful and Jojo Rabbit are Oscar-winning classics for some and unbearable pablum to others. (Me, I am Others.)
One person’s “restraint” is another person’s “excessively muted” and yet another person’s “still too darned sentimental.”
I’m here to praise Showtime’s A Gentleman in Moscow for its general restraint. The limited series take on Amor Towles’ 2016 novel tiptoes along an allegorical line, without toppling over into either outright whimsy or voyeuristic gawking at the flawed idealism and generational traumas of the Bolshevik Revolution. It’s a dark story that still has some levity,...
One person’s “restraint” is another person’s “excessively muted” and yet another person’s “still too darned sentimental.”
I’m here to praise Showtime’s A Gentleman in Moscow for its general restraint. The limited series take on Amor Towles’ 2016 novel tiptoes along an allegorical line, without toppling over into either outright whimsy or voyeuristic gawking at the flawed idealism and generational traumas of the Bolshevik Revolution. It’s a dark story that still has some levity,...
- 3/27/2024
- by Daniel Fienberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Shawn Levy made a promise to Anthony Doerr when he first reached out to the author to adapt his Pulitzer Prize–winning novel, All the Light We Cannot See: committing to long-form storytelling in bringing the epic saga to the screen.
Others had attempted to turn the sweeping, 500+ page novel into a feature film. But when Doerr first read scripts for a 90-minute movie, he’d realize, “Oh, so many characters were gone.” But Levy’s success working with child actors — as seen in Stranger Things and The Adam Project — as well as his utter devotion to the material made Doerr think, “You’re hitting all these notes for me.”
Levy had devoured the novel over Christmas in 2014 and reread it for the sixth time a month before production began on the four-episode limited series adaptation, so he had massive expectations of his own. “I knew if I made...
Others had attempted to turn the sweeping, 500+ page novel into a feature film. But when Doerr first read scripts for a 90-minute movie, he’d realize, “Oh, so many characters were gone.” But Levy’s success working with child actors — as seen in Stranger Things and The Adam Project — as well as his utter devotion to the material made Doerr think, “You’re hitting all these notes for me.”
Levy had devoured the novel over Christmas in 2014 and reread it for the sixth time a month before production began on the four-episode limited series adaptation, so he had massive expectations of his own. “I knew if I made...
- 3/4/2024
- by Tara Bitran
- Tudum - Netflix
Whether it’s the conclusion of juggernaut hits or new shows that sparked conversation, the television medium delivered in 2023.
The anticipated adaptation of “Daisy Jones & the Six” kept us dancing (and crying) in the spring, while the brilliantly devastating conclusion of “Succession” left us catching our breath in May. “The Last of Us” reminded us of the real emotional stakes of a zombie apocalypse, and Netflix’s “Beef” showed us the depths a person can go to when seeking retribution.
The historic Hollywood double strikes delayed the returns of our favorite broadcast series in the fall, but streaming series like “The Buccaneers” and “The Curse,” and linear hits like “The Golden Bachelor” and “Fargo” kept us glued to our screens this year.
Check out TheWrap’s staff picks for the best TV shows of 2023 below.
The cast of “Abbott Elementary.” (ABC)
“Abbott Elementary” (ABC)
The second season of “Abbott Elementary...
The anticipated adaptation of “Daisy Jones & the Six” kept us dancing (and crying) in the spring, while the brilliantly devastating conclusion of “Succession” left us catching our breath in May. “The Last of Us” reminded us of the real emotional stakes of a zombie apocalypse, and Netflix’s “Beef” showed us the depths a person can go to when seeking retribution.
The historic Hollywood double strikes delayed the returns of our favorite broadcast series in the fall, but streaming series like “The Buccaneers” and “The Curse,” and linear hits like “The Golden Bachelor” and “Fargo” kept us glued to our screens this year.
Check out TheWrap’s staff picks for the best TV shows of 2023 below.
The cast of “Abbott Elementary.” (ABC)
“Abbott Elementary” (ABC)
The second season of “Abbott Elementary...
- 12/19/2023
- by Jose Alejandro Bastidas, Dessi Gomez, Sharon Knolle, Kayla Cobb, Lucas Manfredi, Drew Taylor, Loree Seitz, Adam Chitwood, Raquel 'Rocky' Harris, Andi Ortiz, Haleigh Foutch
- The Wrap
‘Bluey’ Takes Over Nielsen Charts; ‘Lawmen: Bass Reeves’ Enters Streaming Originals List After Debut
The week of November 6 to 12 appears to have been a slow one for streaming.
In a rare instance, Nielsen reports that not a single titled managed over 1B minutes. However, the company also says that streaming consumption was actually up versus the previous week, when two titled crossed the threshold. Nielsen suggests this could mean that viewers were just digging deeper into streaming libraries during this week.
The title to come closes to the elusive billion-minute club was Bluey, which took the No. 1 spot on the charts with 918M viewing minutes. About half of that audience was under 12.
Though it dropped 11% in viewing week over week, Grey’s Anatomy still managed second place with 897M minutes during this interval. Suits hung onto third place this week with 826M viewing minutes and third place overall, continuing its slow descent after an unprecedented run on Netflix.
Loki ended its Season 2 run during this week,...
In a rare instance, Nielsen reports that not a single titled managed over 1B minutes. However, the company also says that streaming consumption was actually up versus the previous week, when two titled crossed the threshold. Nielsen suggests this could mean that viewers were just digging deeper into streaming libraries during this week.
The title to come closes to the elusive billion-minute club was Bluey, which took the No. 1 spot on the charts with 918M viewing minutes. About half of that audience was under 12.
Though it dropped 11% in viewing week over week, Grey’s Anatomy still managed second place with 897M minutes during this interval. Suits hung onto third place this week with 826M viewing minutes and third place overall, continuing its slow descent after an unprecedented run on Netflix.
Loki ended its Season 2 run during this week,...
- 12/7/2023
- by Katie Campione
- Deadline Film + TV
Louis Hofmann is an actor who has a certain Aryan look. There’s no getting around it. He’s used it to find work playing Nazis. “I’ve portrayed quite a few Nazi characters,” the German-born actor says, “which doesn’t mean they’re all the same. I guess it’s very important to remind ourselves of what has happened and to keep making these films to avoid it happening again.” Hoffman is at it again portraying Werner Pfennig, a brilliant German teenager who is reluctantly compelled to assist the Nazi cause during World War II due to his technical skill with radios in “All the Light We Cannot See,” the four-part Netflix adaptation of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel from Anthony Doerr. “I’m glad you sympathize with that human, whatever the uniform that he had to put on.” Watch the exclusive video interview above.
The series revolves around Marie-Laure...
The series revolves around Marie-Laure...
- 12/7/2023
- by Ray Richmond
- Gold Derby
Aria Mia Loberti was, by any measure, an incredibly high achiever, particularly for someone legally blind. As a triple major at the University of Rhode Island, she was graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa in 2020. She received a Fulbright Scholarship who earned her master’s degree in the UK. And she was studying for her PhD two years ago at Penn State. Yet she felt unfulfilled. “I was just unhappy, and I didn’t really know why,” she admits. “I’d spent my whole life fighting for my education, and I was literally as far as you could go at the top and doing really well. But I felt like I was living someone else’s life, like I didn’t know what I was supposed to do with my life, and I was just kind of going through the motions. I didn’t know what I was...
- 12/5/2023
- by Ray Richmond
- Gold Derby
All The Light We Cannot See notched another week atop Netflix’s English-language TV charts, with viewership for the limited series continuing to climb.
The World War II story based on Anthony Doerr’s novel managed 10.1M views from November 6 to 12, up from the 9.8M it racked up in the week it debuted. This is quite a showing for All The Light, and it’s by far the most viewing for any series this week.
But, as of now it still has a long way to go before it could reach the streamer’s most popular list. Queen Charlotte is currently at No. 10 on that list with just over 80M views in its first 91 days.
Selling Sunset Season 7 soared up the list to second place (from No. 8 last week). The latest installment of the reality series nearly doubled its weekly audience with 4.7M views.
New to the list was Blue Eye Samurai,...
The World War II story based on Anthony Doerr’s novel managed 10.1M views from November 6 to 12, up from the 9.8M it racked up in the week it debuted. This is quite a showing for All The Light, and it’s by far the most viewing for any series this week.
But, as of now it still has a long way to go before it could reach the streamer’s most popular list. Queen Charlotte is currently at No. 10 on that list with just over 80M views in its first 91 days.
Selling Sunset Season 7 soared up the list to second place (from No. 8 last week). The latest installment of the reality series nearly doubled its weekly audience with 4.7M views.
New to the list was Blue Eye Samurai,...
- 11/14/2023
- by Katie Campione
- Deadline Film + TV
The Netflix TV Top 10 was shaken up last week due to a few new offerings.
All The Light We Cannot See debuted on November 2, debuting at No. 1 on the English-language TV charts.
The World War II limited series based on Anthony Doerr’s novel tallied 9.8M viewing minutes and reached the Top 10 in 82 countries during the interval from October 30 to November 5. It took the top spot from Bodies (UK), which was nowhere to be found on the list this week.
In second place was Till Murder Do Us Part: Soering vs. Haysom with 4.7M views. Bodies (UK), which was on top of the TV charts last week was relegated to third place during this window. Life on Our Planet, narrated by Morgan Freeman, landed in fourth place (down from third the week prior).
Elsewhere on the list, The Fall of the House of Usher lived to see another week with...
All The Light We Cannot See debuted on November 2, debuting at No. 1 on the English-language TV charts.
The World War II limited series based on Anthony Doerr’s novel tallied 9.8M viewing minutes and reached the Top 10 in 82 countries during the interval from October 30 to November 5. It took the top spot from Bodies (UK), which was nowhere to be found on the list this week.
In second place was Till Murder Do Us Part: Soering vs. Haysom with 4.7M views. Bodies (UK), which was on top of the TV charts last week was relegated to third place during this window. Life on Our Planet, narrated by Morgan Freeman, landed in fourth place (down from third the week prior).
Elsewhere on the list, The Fall of the House of Usher lived to see another week with...
- 11/7/2023
- by Katie Campione
- Deadline Film + TV
MCU veteran Mark Ruffalo joins newcomer Aria Mia Loberti in the stellar cast of Netflix's All the Light We Cannot See.
Developed by Steven Knight as a four-part series, All the Light We Cannot See is based on Anthony Doerr's novel of the same name, and it revolves around the story of a blind French girl and a German soldier who meet in France during World War II.
All the Light We Cannot See premiered on Netflix on November 2.
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Developed by Steven Knight as a four-part series, All the Light We Cannot See is based on Anthony Doerr's novel of the same name, and it revolves around the story of a blind French girl and a German soldier who meet in France during World War II.
All the Light We Cannot See premiered on Netflix on November 2.
Read full article on The Direct.
- 11/6/2023
- by Aeron Mer Eclarinal
- The Direct
Netflix’s take on All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr’s celebrated 2014 novel, dropped in full on Thursday — with some noticeable changes to the source material.
The four-episode miniseries focuses on the interwoven journeys of Marie-Laure (Aria Mia Loberti), a blind teenager in France, and Werner (Louis Hofmann), a German soldier, during World War II. Marie-Laure and Werner’s paths finally cross in person during the limited series’ finale, though the events that take place before and after their meeting deviate quite substantially from the beats of Doerr’s book. Let’s break down the biggest changes:
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The four-episode miniseries focuses on the interwoven journeys of Marie-Laure (Aria Mia Loberti), a blind teenager in France, and Werner (Louis Hofmann), a German soldier, during World War II. Marie-Laure and Werner’s paths finally cross in person during the limited series’ finale, though the events that take place before and after their meeting deviate quite substantially from the beats of Doerr’s book. Let’s break down the biggest changes:
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- 11/5/2023
- by Rebecca Iannucci
- TVLine.com
Shawn Levy opens up about why he felt drawn to direct Netflix’s new miniseries All the Light We Cannot See.
The Steven Knight-created four-episode series, adapted from the best-selling novel of the same name by Anthony Doerr, follows Marie-Laure, a blind French teen, who forms an unlikely relationship with a German soldier, Werner, after she takes refuge from World War II in her uncle’s town in France.
“When I read the first draft of the first episode of the adaptation, my plan was to produce the show, maybe direct an episode,” Levy told People magazine in a recent interview. “But after I read it, I knew I needed to do it all myself.”
Though the series is unlike the usual genre he goes for, he explained, “I loved the book, I loved the adaptation. And it connected to my prior work in that it is fundamentally — and unabashedly — emotional,...
The Steven Knight-created four-episode series, adapted from the best-selling novel of the same name by Anthony Doerr, follows Marie-Laure, a blind French teen, who forms an unlikely relationship with a German soldier, Werner, after she takes refuge from World War II in her uncle’s town in France.
“When I read the first draft of the first episode of the adaptation, my plan was to produce the show, maybe direct an episode,” Levy told People magazine in a recent interview. “But after I read it, I knew I needed to do it all myself.”
Though the series is unlike the usual genre he goes for, he explained, “I loved the book, I loved the adaptation. And it connected to my prior work in that it is fundamentally — and unabashedly — emotional,...
- 11/4/2023
- by Carly Thomas
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Warning! This post contains major spoilers for the final two episodes and ending of “All the Light We Cannot See.”
Shawn Levy and Steven Knight’s Netflix adaptation “All the Light We Cannot See” ends quite differently for a few key characters than source material Anthony Doerr’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.
The four-part limited series tells a split story of Marie-Laure LeBlanc (Aria Mia Loberti), a young blind, French girl who moves with her father to a small seaside town in France when the Germans take over the country, and Werner Pfennig (Louis Hoffman) an unwilling Nazi soldier whose job is to track down illegal radio broadcasts that the French use to codify messages to the United States and other Allied countries during World War II. The two main characters, who exist on opposing sides of a historical tragedy, actually have a lot in common thanks to a radio broadcast they listened to as children,...
Shawn Levy and Steven Knight’s Netflix adaptation “All the Light We Cannot See” ends quite differently for a few key characters than source material Anthony Doerr’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.
The four-part limited series tells a split story of Marie-Laure LeBlanc (Aria Mia Loberti), a young blind, French girl who moves with her father to a small seaside town in France when the Germans take over the country, and Werner Pfennig (Louis Hoffman) an unwilling Nazi soldier whose job is to track down illegal radio broadcasts that the French use to codify messages to the United States and other Allied countries during World War II. The two main characters, who exist on opposing sides of a historical tragedy, actually have a lot in common thanks to a radio broadcast they listened to as children,...
- 11/4/2023
- by Dessi Gomez
- The Wrap
Adapted from Anthony Doerr’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Netflix’s limited series “All the Light We Cannot See” sets two unlikely kindred spirits on a collision course as World War II begins in France when Germany occupied the country. Shawn Levy directed all four episodes of Steven Knight’s scripts.
Marie-Laure LeBlanc (Aria Mia Loberti) and Werner Pfennig (Louis Hoffman) share curiosity and empathy, which translates across their opposing countries and positions in the war. Werner’s skill for fixing and translating radios leads him to a high position in the Nazi effort to decode secret broadcasts that their targets might send. Marie-Laure herself becomes a broadcaster after her father moves her to her uncle’s home in a small, seaside French town.
Here are the cast and characters of “All the Light We Cannot See”:
Aria Mia Loberti in “All the Light We Cannot See” (Netflix)
Marie-Laure LeBlanc...
Marie-Laure LeBlanc (Aria Mia Loberti) and Werner Pfennig (Louis Hoffman) share curiosity and empathy, which translates across their opposing countries and positions in the war. Werner’s skill for fixing and translating radios leads him to a high position in the Nazi effort to decode secret broadcasts that their targets might send. Marie-Laure herself becomes a broadcaster after her father moves her to her uncle’s home in a small, seaside French town.
Here are the cast and characters of “All the Light We Cannot See”:
Aria Mia Loberti in “All the Light We Cannot See” (Netflix)
Marie-Laure LeBlanc...
- 11/3/2023
- by Dessi Gomez
- The Wrap
Anthony Doerr's Pulitzer Prize-winning historical fiction novel, "All the Light We Cannot See," is the latest Netflix original to add to your queue. This novel tells the story of WWII from the perspective of Marie Laure LeBlanc and Werner Pfennig, who experience the war in two vastly different ways, and the priceless Sea of Flames, which is being sought after by Nazi officials. If you can't wait to find out what happens in the book and how that may translate to its onscreen adaptation, keep reading.
But proceed with caution: there are spoilers ahead.
Who Is Marie-Laure LeBlanc?
Marie-Laure is a blind Parisian girl who lives with her widowed father, Daniel, who is the locksmith at the Natural History Museum of Paris. Daniel fosters a sense of independence in Marie-Laure throughout her childhood by hand-crafting models of their neighborhood so she can navigate confidently on her own.
Marie-Laure is...
But proceed with caution: there are spoilers ahead.
Who Is Marie-Laure LeBlanc?
Marie-Laure is a blind Parisian girl who lives with her widowed father, Daniel, who is the locksmith at the Natural History Museum of Paris. Daniel fosters a sense of independence in Marie-Laure throughout her childhood by hand-crafting models of their neighborhood so she can navigate confidently on her own.
Marie-Laure is...
- 11/3/2023
- by Jada Welch Olson
- Popsugar.com
Netflix's highly anticipated miniseries "All the Light We Cannot See" hit the platform on Nov. 2, and many watchers have wondered if the plot of the series, which takes place during WWII, is based on a true story. The miniseries is an adaptation of Anthony Doerr's 2014 novel of the same name that was a New York Times bestseller in 2014 and recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2015. "All the Light We Cannot See" follows Marie-Laure LeBlanc, a blind French girl, and Werner Pfennig, a German boy, whose worlds intersect when the French port town of Saint-Malo becomes the fighting ground between German and Allied forces during WWII.
Despite the plot taking place during a historic time, it is not based exclusively on a true story. Rather, the inspiration for "All the Light We Cannot See" came from something Doerr actually experienced, as well as an eye-opening trip to...
Despite the plot taking place during a historic time, it is not based exclusively on a true story. Rather, the inspiration for "All the Light We Cannot See" came from something Doerr actually experienced, as well as an eye-opening trip to...
- 11/3/2023
- by Alicia Geigel
- Popsugar.com
Were one to go into “All the Light We Cannot See” totally cold — drawn to the four-part limited series, say, purely by its placement atop Netflix’s home page — it would be impossible to discern that it was based on a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel celebrated for its lyricism and profundity.
The dialogue here is pedestrian. The lead character, blind French teenager Marie-Laure LeBlanc (screen newcomer Aria Mia Loberti), escapes the German invasion of Paris in World War II with her father, Daniel (Mark Ruffalo). They seek refuge in the French port city of Saint-Malo. Yet throughout the journey, and the limited series, our Gallic heroine and Papa LeBlanc speak English with British accents.
The series’ wartime visuals are dark and obviously CG-enhanced. More practical effects include perfectly contained fires placed in strategic spots to indicate — along with James Newton Howard’s overwrought score — that a neighborhood has been bombed.
This lack of realism,...
The dialogue here is pedestrian. The lead character, blind French teenager Marie-Laure LeBlanc (screen newcomer Aria Mia Loberti), escapes the German invasion of Paris in World War II with her father, Daniel (Mark Ruffalo). They seek refuge in the French port city of Saint-Malo. Yet throughout the journey, and the limited series, our Gallic heroine and Papa LeBlanc speak English with British accents.
The series’ wartime visuals are dark and obviously CG-enhanced. More practical effects include perfectly contained fires placed in strategic spots to indicate — along with James Newton Howard’s overwrought score — that a neighborhood has been bombed.
This lack of realism,...
- 11/2/2023
- by Carla Meyer
- The Wrap
All the Light We Cannot See is a World War II limited drama series created by Steven Knight and directed by Shawn Levy. The Netflix series is based on Anthony Doerr‘s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name and it revolves around two teenagers at the height of WWII. Marie-Laure, a blind French girl, and Werner Pfennig and a German boy, who was forced to join the Nazi army. All the Light We Cannot See stars Aria Mia Loberti and Louis Hofmann in the lead roles with Mark Ruffalo and Hugh Laurie starring in supporting roles. So, if you loved the Netflix series here are some similar movies and TV shows that you should watch next.
World on Fire (Prime Video Add-On) Credit – BBC One
Synopsis: World on Fire is an adrenalized, emotionally gripping, and resonant World War II drama that follows the intertwining fates of ordinary people in...
World on Fire (Prime Video Add-On) Credit – BBC One
Synopsis: World on Fire is an adrenalized, emotionally gripping, and resonant World War II drama that follows the intertwining fates of ordinary people in...
- 11/2/2023
- by Kulwant Singh
- Cinema Blind
All the Light We Cannot See, the Pulitzer-winning book written by Anthony Doerr, has finally been adapted for the screen and is available on Netflix to stream. The four-episodic miniseries is the story of Marie LeBlanc and Werner Pfennig’s self-discovery as the German occupation intensifies in Nazi-occupied France and other parts of Europe. The book and the show had a limited number of characters, but all had an arc that took them through a transformative journey amidst the Second World War as the Nazi occupation got aggressive but human conscience became better.
Spoilers Ahead
Marie-Laure LeBlanc
Marie-Laure LeBlanc in the book and the show was a French blind girl. Her father, Daniel LeBlanc, taught her to navigate around Paris based on the model of the city he made for her. Marie LeBlanc, from a young age, was addicted to a frequency on her radio that imparted knowledge about science and geography.
Spoilers Ahead
Marie-Laure LeBlanc
Marie-Laure LeBlanc in the book and the show was a French blind girl. Her father, Daniel LeBlanc, taught her to navigate around Paris based on the model of the city he made for her. Marie LeBlanc, from a young age, was addicted to a frequency on her radio that imparted knowledge about science and geography.
- 11/2/2023
- by Smriti Kannan
- Film Fugitives
In 2019, Netflix and Shawn Levy’s production company 21 Laps Entertainment acquired the rights to adapt Anthony Doerr’s 2014 war novel All the Light We Cannot See for television. The Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller tells the story of two teenagers whose paths cross during the height of World War II in occupied France: Marie-Laure LeBlanc, a blind French girl, and Werner Pfennig, a German boy who is kidnapped and forced to become a Nazi soldier.
The four-part drama, which counts Mark Ruffalo and Hugh Laurie among its cast, was developed by British screenwriter Steven Knight who also serves as an executive producer of the limited series (which released Thursday).
“What I have learned is that the story is the story, and it doesn’t necessarily fit the conventional boxes,” Knight says of adapting Doerr’s novel. “I wanted the story to be as long as the story is, and it was perfect for four hours.
The four-part drama, which counts Mark Ruffalo and Hugh Laurie among its cast, was developed by British screenwriter Steven Knight who also serves as an executive producer of the limited series (which released Thursday).
“What I have learned is that the story is the story, and it doesn’t necessarily fit the conventional boxes,” Knight says of adapting Doerr’s novel. “I wanted the story to be as long as the story is, and it was perfect for four hours.
- 11/2/2023
- by Brande Victorian
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Don’t go into Netflix’s adaptation of All The Light We Cannot See expecting it to be a direct translation of Anthony Doerr’s bestselling novel.
The four-part limited series, which launched on Thursday, is quite liberal at time when it comes to bringing the story to life on screen. But, a page-for-page adaptation was never the goal. Instead, director and executive producer Shawn Levy told Deadline he expects audiences to feel “the heart of the story” is present throughout.
Crediting screenwriter Steven Knight, who penned the series, Levy used this analogy: “The book is the mountain. The mountain will always exist. Long after us, the mountain will be here. We did a painting of that mountain. We’re not trying to replace it. We’re not trying to make a photograph or a Xerox. It’s our impression of that mountain.”
“If we’ve done our job right,...
The four-part limited series, which launched on Thursday, is quite liberal at time when it comes to bringing the story to life on screen. But, a page-for-page adaptation was never the goal. Instead, director and executive producer Shawn Levy told Deadline he expects audiences to feel “the heart of the story” is present throughout.
Crediting screenwriter Steven Knight, who penned the series, Levy used this analogy: “The book is the mountain. The mountain will always exist. Long after us, the mountain will be here. We did a painting of that mountain. We’re not trying to replace it. We’re not trying to make a photograph or a Xerox. It’s our impression of that mountain.”
“If we’ve done our job right,...
- 11/2/2023
- by Katie Campione
- Deadline Film + TV
Before there were dramas on television, there were dramas on the radio. With no visuals to present to their audience, radio series had to conjure up entire worlds out of carefully scripted narration, homespun special effects, and the sheer vibrance of their actors’ voices. Done right, whether back then or in modern podcast fiction, the effect can be magical, with the soundscape creating an experience that can be just as immersive as, if not more than, a story you watch on a screen. Heck, in 1938, Orson Welles nearly caused a...
- 11/2/2023
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Rollingstone.com
All the Light We Cannot See, the Pulitzer-winning book written by Anthony Doerr, and the Netflix original miniseries do not have too many characters to begin with. This World War II drama takes the readers through a journey of changing perspectives and self-discovery as the characters evolve into different personalities by the end of the war. Though the treatment of the characters in the book and the show is different, at core, they are a transformative human story. The other characters shaped the way Marie LeBlanc and Werner Pfennig looked at the world around them. They needed people in their lives who grounded them instead of fanning their inclinations.
Jutta Pfennig was one of the characters in the show and in the book whose presence had an impact on her brother Werner Pfennig. He went on to be a German Army officer, and at many junctures, he understood his sister...
Jutta Pfennig was one of the characters in the show and in the book whose presence had an impact on her brother Werner Pfennig. He went on to be a German Army officer, and at many junctures, he understood his sister...
- 11/2/2023
- by Smriti Kannan
- Film Fugitives
All the Light We Cannot See is a story of the fight against oppression and resistance against unlawful activities. This Anthony Doerr book, which has recently been made into a Netflix mini-series, talks about everything that happened in Germany and Nazi-occupied France. The Netflix series went off track from the source material, but all the characters have been retained with changes given to their personalities.
One of the many characters in the show and in the book who have created a resistance force against the German army has to be Uncle Etienne. He tried to broadcast information about scientific and geographical topics to the younger generation. Since he was a veteran of the First World War, he was aware how unnecessary that conflict was.
Uncle Etienne understood the games political powers played to get people on their side. His job was to inform the younger generation through radio about a...
One of the many characters in the show and in the book who have created a resistance force against the German army has to be Uncle Etienne. He tried to broadcast information about scientific and geographical topics to the younger generation. Since he was a veteran of the First World War, he was aware how unnecessary that conflict was.
Uncle Etienne understood the games political powers played to get people on their side. His job was to inform the younger generation through radio about a...
- 11/2/2023
- by Smriti Kannan
- Film Fugitives
All the Light We Cannot See is a drama series created by Steven Knight, directed by Shawn Levy, and based on the novel by Anthony Doerr.
Prepare your hearts to beat to the rhythm of one of the most sentimental series you can watch on television. “All the Light We Cannot See” is a spectacular production set in the final days of World War II during the German occupation of Paris, in which a blind girl broadcasts a radio program and helps the French resistance win the war. Meanwhile, the Germans search for her, some driven by sentiment and others for different reasons.
The series showcases stunning imagery, such as the breathtaking aerial shots, and boasts solid execution and writing.
However, be warned if you’re not a fan of sentimental stories, because this series delves deeply into the realm of emotions.
All the Light We Cannot See Synopsis
Marie-Laure,...
Prepare your hearts to beat to the rhythm of one of the most sentimental series you can watch on television. “All the Light We Cannot See” is a spectacular production set in the final days of World War II during the German occupation of Paris, in which a blind girl broadcasts a radio program and helps the French resistance win the war. Meanwhile, the Germans search for her, some driven by sentiment and others for different reasons.
The series showcases stunning imagery, such as the breathtaking aerial shots, and boasts solid execution and writing.
However, be warned if you’re not a fan of sentimental stories, because this series delves deeply into the realm of emotions.
All the Light We Cannot See Synopsis
Marie-Laure,...
- 11/2/2023
- by Martin Cid
- Martin Cid - TV
All The Light We Cannot See, a Pulitzer-winning book by Anthony Doerr, finally got the miniseries treatment thanks to Netflix. The show was released on November 2, 2023, and fans of the book cannot wait for this Steven Knight adaptation. Directed by Shawn Levy, this four-part miniseries is about a French blind girl, a young German soldier, and their struggles through Nazi-occupied France a year before the war was over.
Spoilers Ahead
Is The Book About War Crimes Carried Out By The SS?
The showmakers claimed to have based the miniseries on the award-winning book, but the screenplay couldn’t be farther from the source material. The showmakers acquired the rights to the book, which is solely based on the lives of Marie-Laure LeBlanc and Werner Pfennig as they navigate their lives through Nazi-occupied Europe and how events around them change their perspective of people. Marie-Laure LeBlanc was a blind French girl,...
Spoilers Ahead
Is The Book About War Crimes Carried Out By The SS?
The showmakers claimed to have based the miniseries on the award-winning book, but the screenplay couldn’t be farther from the source material. The showmakers acquired the rights to the book, which is solely based on the lives of Marie-Laure LeBlanc and Werner Pfennig as they navigate their lives through Nazi-occupied Europe and how events around them change their perspective of people. Marie-Laure LeBlanc was a blind French girl,...
- 11/2/2023
- by Smriti Kannan
- Film Fugitives
The latest feature from David Fincher, a big-budget drama series from Steven Knight and Shawn Levy, and an Oscar hopeful starring Annette Bening and Jodie Foster are among the standout new additions hitting Netflix in November.
With The Killer, Fincher reteams with Seven writer Andrew Kevin Walker to adapt the graphic novel written by Alexis Nolent. The film, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival this year and debuts on Netflix on Nov. 10, stars Michael Fassbender as a shadowy unnamed assassin and features a cast that includes Arliss Howard, Charles Parnell, Gabriel Polanco, Kerry O’Malley, Emiliano Pernía, Sala Baker, Sophie Charlotte and Tilda Swinton.
The Hollywood Reporter‘s review of The Killer described the film as “a satisfyingly retro, location-hopping genre exercise with fisticuffs, gadgets (albeit ones bought from Amazon) and smooth-talking antagonists that all plays like a tongue-in-cheek spoof of James Bond movies.”
All the Light We Cannot See...
With The Killer, Fincher reteams with Seven writer Andrew Kevin Walker to adapt the graphic novel written by Alexis Nolent. The film, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival this year and debuts on Netflix on Nov. 10, stars Michael Fassbender as a shadowy unnamed assassin and features a cast that includes Arliss Howard, Charles Parnell, Gabriel Polanco, Kerry O’Malley, Emiliano Pernía, Sala Baker, Sophie Charlotte and Tilda Swinton.
The Hollywood Reporter‘s review of The Killer described the film as “a satisfyingly retro, location-hopping genre exercise with fisticuffs, gadgets (albeit ones bought from Amazon) and smooth-talking antagonists that all plays like a tongue-in-cheek spoof of James Bond movies.”
All the Light We Cannot See...
- 11/2/2023
- by Abid Rahman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Winona Ryder had some important questions when she first sat down to discuss a potential role in Netflix’s “Stranger Things.” Chief among them: What exactly is Netflix? Series director and executive producer Shawn Levy revealed Ryder’s initial inquiries during a recent interview on the “Happy Sad Confused” podcast.
“She opened by asking, ‘What is Netflix? What is streaming? Is it like TV but different?’” Levy remembered. “That was the starting point… Yeah, Winona took a little onboarding to explain this emerging form of storytelling called Netflix and streaming.”
Ryder would be cast in the series regular role of Joyce Byers. The show played a big part in revitalizing Ryder’s career; she’ll be back when “Stranger Things” starts filming its fifth and final season next year. Levy said “Stranger Things” Season 5 is an “epic in its cinematic scope.”
“But it’s very much ‘Stranger Things,'” he stressed.
“She opened by asking, ‘What is Netflix? What is streaming? Is it like TV but different?’” Levy remembered. “That was the starting point… Yeah, Winona took a little onboarding to explain this emerging form of storytelling called Netflix and streaming.”
Ryder would be cast in the series regular role of Joyce Byers. The show played a big part in revitalizing Ryder’s career; she’ll be back when “Stranger Things” starts filming its fifth and final season next year. Levy said “Stranger Things” Season 5 is an “epic in its cinematic scope.”
“But it’s very much ‘Stranger Things,'” he stressed.
- 11/1/2023
- by Zack Sharf
- Variety Film + TV
“All the Light We Cannot See” is not, in the strictest sense, a comfort watch. Like the Pulitzer Prize-winning Anthony Doerr novel on which it’s based, the four-episode limited series takes place in a walled city under siege by a bombing campaign, its trapped civilians unable to evacuate — hardly a relaxing break from today’s headlines. But the Netflix show is, in a way, a return to simpler times.
This particular walled city is located in Nazi-occupied France, on the verge of American liberation in August 1944. As written, “All the Light We Cannot See” is already set amid a conflict that’s far closer to good versus evil than most armed struggles. As adapted by screenwriter Steven Knight (“Peaky Blinders”) and director Shawn Levy, the series leans into sentiment and moral simplicity. Knight and Levy aim for an uplifting, inspirational tale of connection that transcends division, distance and prejudice,...
This particular walled city is located in Nazi-occupied France, on the verge of American liberation in August 1944. As written, “All the Light We Cannot See” is already set amid a conflict that’s far closer to good versus evil than most armed struggles. As adapted by screenwriter Steven Knight (“Peaky Blinders”) and director Shawn Levy, the series leans into sentiment and moral simplicity. Knight and Levy aim for an uplifting, inspirational tale of connection that transcends division, distance and prejudice,...
- 11/1/2023
- by Alison Herman
- Variety Film + TV
Netflix’s slate for November 2023 has much to offer as the transition from Halloween to Thanksgiving and eventually Christmas begins. Many favorite movies such as Jennifer Garner’s “13 Going on 30” and “The Big Lebowski” arrive Nov. 1, while Garner’s new movie “The Family Switch” rounds out the month when it arrives on the streamer Nov. 30. Other can’t-miss film arrivals on November first include “Whiplash,” “Sixteen Candles,” “The Social Network” and “Pitch Perfect.”
Several new seasons of Netflix shows arrive this month as well, the most highly anticipated of which might be “The Crown” Season 6 Part 1. The first half of the final season of the royal drama series arrives Nov. 16. The limited series adaptation of “All the Light We Cannot See” by Shawn Levy and Steven Knight launches November 2. Levy directed all four episodes of the epic drama series, adapted from the Pulitzer prize-winning novel by Anthony Doerr.
Several new seasons of Netflix shows arrive this month as well, the most highly anticipated of which might be “The Crown” Season 6 Part 1. The first half of the final season of the royal drama series arrives Nov. 16. The limited series adaptation of “All the Light We Cannot See” by Shawn Levy and Steven Knight launches November 2. Levy directed all four episodes of the epic drama series, adapted from the Pulitzer prize-winning novel by Anthony Doerr.
- 11/1/2023
- by Dessi Gomez
- The Wrap
Some people remind us that goodness persists during even the darkest days. Such are the compelling characters in the four-part limited series, All the Light We Cannot See, adapted from Anthony Doerr’s Pulitzer Prize–winning 2014 novel, about a blind French girl and a German soldier whose fates intertwine during World War II. Daniel LeBlanc (Mark Ruffalo) A kind master locksmith at Paris’ National Museum of Natural History, Daniel flees the city’s 1940 German invasion with his blind young daughter, Marie-Laure. He must protect them from sadistic Nazi Reinhold von Rumpel (Lars Eidinger), who will do anything to possess a priceless diamond Daniel is safeguarding. (Credit: Netflix) Marie-Laure LeBlanc (Aria Mia Loberti) Intellectually curious and brave, Marie-Laure begins illegal radio broadcasts that contain coded information. It’s the first-ever role for Loberti, cast by director Shawn Levy (Stranger Things) after a global search for blind and low-vision actors. She says of Ruffalo’s mentorship,...
- 11/1/2023
- TV Insider
November on Netflix is peppered with curiosities for just about everyone. This month will see the long-awaited adaptation of Anthony Doerr’s award-winning novel All the Light We Cannot See hit the streamer. Directed by Shawn Levy (The Adam Project) and starring Mark Ruffalo, the limited series will tell the emotional story of a blind French girl who meets a German soldier in the final days of WWII.
Elsewhere, Netflix will unveil its first expansion of its planned Squid Game universe with an actual competition show that will challenge 456 players to be the final winner of no less than $4.56 million. Squid Game: The Challenge will feature games recreated from the hit 2021 show, hopefully with a comparatively zero chance of death for the contestants!
For those who are awaiting the return of their favorite Netflix shows in a more fictional capacity, however, we can confirm that Selling Sunset season seven, The Tailor season three,...
Elsewhere, Netflix will unveil its first expansion of its planned Squid Game universe with an actual competition show that will challenge 456 players to be the final winner of no less than $4.56 million. Squid Game: The Challenge will feature games recreated from the hit 2021 show, hopefully with a comparatively zero chance of death for the contestants!
For those who are awaiting the return of their favorite Netflix shows in a more fictional capacity, however, we can confirm that Selling Sunset season seven, The Tailor season three,...
- 11/1/2023
- by Kirsten Howard
- Den of Geek
Aria Mia Loberti, the breakout star of Shawn Levy’s Netflix limited series “All the Light We Cannot See,” has narrated a new audio edition of Jules Verne’s classic novel “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.”
Loberti, a writer, human rights advocate and Fulbright Scholarship recipient, made her acting debut in “All the Light We Cannot See,” an adaptation of Anthony Doerr’s beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning novel which will premiere on Netflix Thursday. In the show, Loberti plays Marie-Laure, a courageous blind teenager living in Nazi-occupied France during WWII. As an act of resilience, Marie-Laure Leblanc defies a Nazi ban on radio broadcasts and reads passages from “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea” over the radio airwaves every night.
Loberti says she was captivated by the positioning of Verne’s classic novel within Doerr’s book and became interested in recording a full length audiobook of “Twenty Thousand Leagues...
Loberti, a writer, human rights advocate and Fulbright Scholarship recipient, made her acting debut in “All the Light We Cannot See,” an adaptation of Anthony Doerr’s beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning novel which will premiere on Netflix Thursday. In the show, Loberti plays Marie-Laure, a courageous blind teenager living in Nazi-occupied France during WWII. As an act of resilience, Marie-Laure Leblanc defies a Nazi ban on radio broadcasts and reads passages from “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea” over the radio airwaves every night.
Loberti says she was captivated by the positioning of Verne’s classic novel within Doerr’s book and became interested in recording a full length audiobook of “Twenty Thousand Leagues...
- 10/31/2023
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Prolific producer and director Shawn Levy fell in love with “All the Light We Cannot See” long before he was attached to adapt the 2014 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Anthony Doerr into a new Netflix limited series, out Thursday, November 2. “I did not read it as a filmmaker. I read it as a reader,” he said to IndieWire over Zoom. “By the time I got back from whatever holiday I was on where I read that book, the rights were already unavailable, having been snatched up by Scott Rudin and Fox Searchlight.”
The story of a blind French teenager Marie-Laure and German soldier Werner connecting via radio, providing each other salvation under the devastation of WWII, caught Levy right as he’d made the deliberate decision to take a step back from directing films, and focus on producing. “I had, at that point, directed maybe like nine movies in 11 or 12 years.
The story of a blind French teenager Marie-Laure and German soldier Werner connecting via radio, providing each other salvation under the devastation of WWII, caught Levy right as he’d made the deliberate decision to take a step back from directing films, and focus on producing. “I had, at that point, directed maybe like nine movies in 11 or 12 years.
- 10/31/2023
- by Marcus Jones
- Indiewire
Streaming platforms like Hulu, Apple TV Plus, and Netflix are constantly offering exciting new shows to keep us entertained. However, choosing what to watch next can be overwhelming with the abundance of options available. Fear not, as we’ve done the work for you!
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Here’s a specially curated list of the 10 best new TV shows to stream this November. From gripping dramas to thrilling adventures, there is something for everyone in this lineup.
‘All the Light We Cannot See’
“All the Light We Cannot See” is an adaptation of Anthony Doerr‘s 2014 Pulitzer-winning novel of the same title. The story is told around Marie-Laure, a blind French teenage girl hidden from the Nazis in occupied Paris while broadcasting a message of resistance. Werner, a young German radio expert, has been tasked to find and kill her. But when their paths finally collide,...
Related: 10 Best TV Episodes of All Time, Ranked by Viewers
Here’s a specially curated list of the 10 best new TV shows to stream this November. From gripping dramas to thrilling adventures, there is something for everyone in this lineup.
‘All the Light We Cannot See’
“All the Light We Cannot See” is an adaptation of Anthony Doerr‘s 2014 Pulitzer-winning novel of the same title. The story is told around Marie-Laure, a blind French teenage girl hidden from the Nazis in occupied Paris while broadcasting a message of resistance. Werner, a young German radio expert, has been tasked to find and kill her. But when their paths finally collide,...
- 10/31/2023
- by Dee Gambit
- buddytv.com
A throwback to when big books became big miniseries, the lavish four-part adaptation of All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, looks and sounds ravishing — James Newton Howard’s lush score will have you choked up from the start. Too bad Steven Knight‘s perfunctory script and Shawn Levy‘s (Stranger Things) blunt direction simplifies the WWII yarn into a manipulative cartoon fable. Nuance being war’s first casualty. As Marie-Laure, the blind French girl broadcasting coded radio messages from a Nazi-occupied seacoast village, exquisite newcomer Aria Mia Loberti (herself sight-impaired) is a find. She’s the best reason to watch as the story devolves into overproduced melodrama. Her counterpart from the war’s other side, as in the novel, is Werner (Louis Hofmann), a young and very reluctant German soldier who happens ...
- 10/31/2023
- TV Insider
Choose your own adventure this November on Netflix! With its latest collection of well-knowns and well-loveds like “The Big Lebowski” or HBO’s dark dramedy “Six Feet Under,” the streamer will add dozens of new originals, documentaries, animes, family films, and more.
Catch up on your reading list with a miniseries adaptation of a Pulitzer winner, David Fincher’s take on a French graphic novel series, or an anime entry into the “Scott Pilgrim” franchise. Or, if reality is strange enough, journey through history— from American civil rights leaders with the Colman Domingo-led “Rustin” to British monarchs in the final season of Netflix’s jewel “The Crown.”
Check out The Streamable’s top picks for what’s new in November on Netflix, and then continue below to see the full list of everything that’s getting added to the platform this month!
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Catch up on your reading list with a miniseries adaptation of a Pulitzer winner, David Fincher’s take on a French graphic novel series, or an anime entry into the “Scott Pilgrim” franchise. Or, if reality is strange enough, journey through history— from American civil rights leaders with the Colman Domingo-led “Rustin” to British monarchs in the final season of Netflix’s jewel “The Crown.”
Check out The Streamable’s top picks for what’s new in November on Netflix, and then continue below to see the full list of everything that’s getting added to the platform this month!
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- 10/31/2023
- by Ashley Steves
- The Streamable
Exclusive: In one of the first big spec sales following the resolution of the WGA strike, Ben Ketai’s script Undying has sold to Netflix for development under its first-look feature deal with Shawn Levy’s 21 Laps.
Deadline hears that the deal was for mid-six against seven figures. 21 Laps brought the project in to Netflix, and Levy, Dan Cohen, and Dan Levine are set to produce for the company, with Moera Ainai overseeing. Ketai will serve as executive producer.
Netflix declined comment.
Described as an erotic thriller with a supernatural twist, Undying follows a woman, suffocated by motherhood, who has an affair with a man she hasn’t seen since high school… only to discover a terrifying secret.
Prior to the sale, Ketai had most recently wrote and directed River Wild, a reimagining of Uni’s same-name 1994 thriller. Starring Leighton Meester, Taran Killam and Adam Brody, the film spent a...
Deadline hears that the deal was for mid-six against seven figures. 21 Laps brought the project in to Netflix, and Levy, Dan Cohen, and Dan Levine are set to produce for the company, with Moera Ainai overseeing. Ketai will serve as executive producer.
Netflix declined comment.
Described as an erotic thriller with a supernatural twist, Undying follows a woman, suffocated by motherhood, who has an affair with a man she hasn’t seen since high school… only to discover a terrifying secret.
Prior to the sale, Ketai had most recently wrote and directed River Wild, a reimagining of Uni’s same-name 1994 thriller. Starring Leighton Meester, Taran Killam and Adam Brody, the film spent a...
- 10/30/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Elizabeth Debicki in ‘The Crown’ Season 6 (Photo Credit: Netflix)
Netflix’s November 2023 lineup of new films and TV series includes the premiere of the sixth season of the critically acclaimed drama The Crown and the debut of the wild action comedy Obliterated. Also joining the November lineup are All the Light We Cannot See, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel and directed by Shawn Levy, as well as the streaming service’s first-ever live sports event.
Additional November highlights include Virgin River season five part two, Scott Pilgrim Takes Off, The Killer, Rustin, and Blue Eye Samurai.
Netflix’s November 2023 Lineup:
11/1/23
Hurricane Season (Film) – When a group of kids finds a corpse floating in a canal, the brutal reality behind the perverse crime unravels a town’s hidden secrets.
Locked In (Film) – A kindly nurse tries to unlock the secrets of a coma patient’s injuries — and discovers the bitter rivalry,...
Netflix’s November 2023 lineup of new films and TV series includes the premiere of the sixth season of the critically acclaimed drama The Crown and the debut of the wild action comedy Obliterated. Also joining the November lineup are All the Light We Cannot See, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel and directed by Shawn Levy, as well as the streaming service’s first-ever live sports event.
Additional November highlights include Virgin River season five part two, Scott Pilgrim Takes Off, The Killer, Rustin, and Blue Eye Samurai.
Netflix’s November 2023 Lineup:
11/1/23
Hurricane Season (Film) – When a group of kids finds a corpse floating in a canal, the brutal reality behind the perverse crime unravels a town’s hidden secrets.
Locked In (Film) – A kindly nurse tries to unlock the secrets of a coma patient’s injuries — and discovers the bitter rivalry,...
- 10/29/2023
- by Rebecca Murray
- Showbiz Junkies
‘All the Light We Cannot See’ panel: A global casting search finds two needles in a haystack [Watch]
People will look at the cast of the epic Netflix limited series adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning World War II-themed novel “All the Light We Cannot See” from author Anthony Doerr and finds a few names that catch their eye – specifically Mark Ruffalo and Hugh Laurie. They’re big names with decades-long acting pedigrees, after all. But the real stars of the four-parter that premieres in its entirety on November 2 are two females you have never heard of – one a young child, the other a young woman – for whom the series is their introduction to performing: Nell Sutton and Aria Mia Loberti.
The two portray the same role a decade or so apart and are the product of a global casting search for actresses to play the lead character Marie-Laure LeBlanc. As “All the Light We Cannot See” casting director Lucy Bevan told an audience at the DGA Theater in...
The two portray the same role a decade or so apart and are the product of a global casting search for actresses to play the lead character Marie-Laure LeBlanc. As “All the Light We Cannot See” casting director Lucy Bevan told an audience at the DGA Theater in...
- 10/27/2023
- by Ray Richmond
- Gold Derby
Plot: The story of Marie-Laure, a blind French girl and her father, Daniel LeBlanc, who flee German-occupied Paris with a legendary diamond to keep it from falling into the hands of the Nazis. Relentlessly pursued by a cruel Gestapo officer who seeks to possess the stone for his own selfish means, Marie-Laure and Daniel soon find refuge in St. Malo, where they take up residence with a reclusive uncle who transmits clandestine radio broadcasts as part of the resistance. Yet here in this once-idyllic seaside city, Marie-Laure’s path also collides inexorably with the unlikeliest of kindred spirits: Werner, a brilliant teenager enlisted by Hitler’s regime to track down illegal broadcasts, who instead shares a secret connection to Marie-Laure as well as her faith in humanity and the possibility of hope.
Review: Anthony Doerr’s acclaimed novel won the Pulitzer Prize in 2015, one year after Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch.
Review: Anthony Doerr’s acclaimed novel won the Pulitzer Prize in 2015, one year after Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch.
- 10/26/2023
- by Alex Maidy
- JoBlo.com
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