5 months of manufacturing has been accomplished on Jacob Elordi-starring drama collection “The Slim Street to the Deep North,” which is about within the “Euphoria” and “Saltburn” star’s native Australia.

An adaptation of the Booker Prize-winning novel by Richard Flanaghan, the five-part collection is love-story set towards the backdrop of World Warfare II. Elordi portrays Lieutenant-Colonel Dorrigo Evans and co-stars with Odessa Younger (“Mothering Sunday,” “Shirley”). Ciaran Hinds (“Belfast”) performs the older model of Evans.

The tailored screenplay was penned by Shaun Grant (“Nitram,” “Mindhunter,” “Penguin Bloom”) and the present is directed by Justin Kurzel (“Nitram,” “Shantaram”).

Manufacturing is by Curio Footage with Prime Video releasing the title in Australia, New Zealand and Canada. In different territories, it distributed by Sony Footage Tv. 

Flanaghan’s novel, printed in 2013, chronicles a century dominated by struggle, with compelled labor on the Thai-Burma Railway and a quick love affair as its dramatic coronary heart.

The story is informed over a number of time durations by an Australian physician who was taken prisoner throughout World Warfare II and have become an unlikely and uncomfortable hero after the struggle’s finish. The journey strikes from the physician’s’ childhood, by to his expertise as a prisoner-of-war on the Thailand-Burma Railway as a younger man, and later in life, as a revered surgeon and Australian struggle hero. 

“’The Slim Street to the Deep North’ is a love story to maintain audiences by the darkest of instances, an intimate character research illustrating the energy of the human spirit within the face of adversity, and an investigation into a wedding and an unforgettable love affair,” mentioned Prime Video in an announcement.

The beforehand introduced solid additionally consists of Olivia DeJonge (“Elvis”), Heather Mitchell (“Love Me,” “Upright”), Thomas Weatherall (“Heartbreak Excessive”), Present Kasamatsu (“Tokyo Vice”), Charles A, and Simon Baker (“Limbo,” “Breath”).

The producers additionally confirmed the casting of Essie Davis, William Lodder, Eduard Geyl, Christian Byers, Sam Parsonson, Reagan Mannix, Fabian McCallum, Caelan McCarthy, David Howell, Abe Taki, Yamaguchi Masa and Fujii Akira.

Jo Porter and Rachel Gardner from Curio Footage each function govt producers. Kurzel, Grant and Flanagan are additionally govt producers, with Alexandra Taussig producing. Main manufacturing funding got here from Display Australia, with help from the NSW Authorities by Display NSW’s Made in NSW and PDV Funds.