Adrien Brody to star in a series based on a Stephen King short story

Adrien Brody was last seen in cinemas in October 2018, acting alongside Bruce Willis in “Air Strike” by Ping Chen. Image: LOIC VENANCE / AFP

Adrien Brody has not set foot on a series set since his 2017 role in “Peaky Blinders”. Now that is set to change with the announcement of a new project in the corridors of American premium cable channel Epix.

Ten episodes have been planned for the first season. Christened “Jerusalem’s Lot”, the series will be adapted from the Stephen King short story of the same name, which was first published in 1978.

Brothers Peter and Jason Filardi will write the screenplay for “Jerusalem’s Lot” and will also act as showrunners and executive producers alongside De Line Production and Epix.

The series, which is set in the 1850s, will follow the character of Charles Boone, played by Adrien Brody, who decides to settle with his three children in a neglected family mansion following the death of his wife at sea. Shortly after his arrival in the house in Maine, he begins to uncover buried family secrets and a sordid story that had a terrible impact on the Boone family.

For the moment, Brody is the only cast member to have been announced for the series.

Recently, Adrien Brody played a role in the fourth season of the BBC and Netflix series “Peaky Blinders”. In 2020, the American actor, who won an Oscar for his performance in “The Pianist”, will be returning to the big screen in Wes Anderson’s next film “The French Dispatch”, which also stars Timothée Chalamet, Léa Seydoux and Saoirse Ronan. NVG

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