Hugh Laurie, Mark Ruffalo Join Netflix’s All the Light We Cannot See Adaptation
SAG Award winner/eight-time Emmy nominee Hugh Laurie and Emmy and SAG Award winner Mark Ruffalo have joined the cast of Netflix‘s adaptation of All the Light We Cannot See.
Based on Anthony Doerr’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 2014 bestseller about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II, the four-part limited series will be penned by Steven Knight (Peaky Blinders) and produced by Shawn Levy’s 21 Laps Entertainment (Stranger Things, Shadow and Bone). Levy will also direct all episodes.
Laurie (House, The Night Manager) will fill the role of Etienne LeBlanc, an eccentric and reclusive World War I hero suffering from PTSD and who records clandestine radio broadcasts as part of the French Resistance.
Ruffalo (I Know This Much Is True, Spotlight) meanwhile will play Daniel LeBlanc, Etienne’s nephew and the principal locksmith at the Museum of Natural History in Paris. Caring and clever, he’s determined to give his blind daughter Marie as much independence as he can while also protecting her – and the secret gem they carry – from Nazi occupation.
As previously announced, blind actress Aria Mia Loberti will make her acting debut in the lead role as Marie-Laure, the teenager at the heart of the story, whose path collides with Werner, a German soldier.
I am sure it will be fantastic. Hugh Laurie always does a great job.
I read this book a few years ago and am excited to see the adaptation.
Is Avenue 5 ever coming back? Haven’t heard anything about it in a really long time.
+1. I’m getting really anxious for this show to come back. 8-( Any news, TV Line?
“In August 2021, creator Armando Iannucci confirmed on Twitter that season two would begin filming, ‘in a matter of days.’ The series star Josh Gad posted a Gif of the first day of shooting. Rumor has it that Avenue 5 Season 2 will premiere sometime in 2021, but nothing is official as yet.”
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That doesn’t seem right at all. August 2021 they just started filming but it’ll also come out in 2021? Yeah right. If they just started filming then, it won’t come out until late summer/early fall 2022
I just read this book a couple of weeks ago. It was so good, and so far I think the casting is perfect.