Jeremy Irons Set To Star in Netflix's 1938-Set Political War Thriller MUNICH
Watchmen actor Jeremy Irons is set to star in Netflix’s original film Munich, which is an adaptation of the bestselling 2017 novel by Robert Harris.
The story for the film is set in the fall of 1938 “when Europe stands on the brink of war. Adolf Hitler is preparing to invade Czechoslovakia and Neville Chamberlain’s government desperately seeks a peaceful solution. With the pressure building, British civil servant Hugh Legat and Paul von Hartmann, a German diplomat, travel to Munich for the emergency conference. As negotiations begin, the two old friends find themselves at the centre of a web of political subterfuge and very real danger.”
Irons will take on the role of Neville Chamberlain and he will be joined by 1917 actor George McKay who takes on the role of Hugh Legat. The rest of the cast includes Jannis Niehwöhner (The Turncoat), Liv Lisa Fries (Babylon Berlin), Erin Doherty (The Crown), Sandra Hüller (Toni Erdmann), August Diehl (A Hidden Life), Robert Bathurst (Downton Abbey), and Marc Limpach (Bad Banks). Martin Wuttke, who played Hitler in Inglourious Basterds, will reprise his role as the German dictator in the film.
Munich is being directed by Christian Schwochow (The Crown) from a script written by Ben Power (The Hollow Crown). This is a story that I’m actually not that familiar with, but it sounds interesting and I’m looking forward to seeing how this movie turns out.
Producer Robert Harris said, “It’s great to see an actor of Jeremy Irons’ stature playing Neville Chamberlain. This will be the first time a major movie has gone beyond the cult of Winston Churchill and tried to show Chamberlain in a more sympathetic light.”
The film is currently shooting in Germany and will also shoot in the U.K. Netflix plans to release the film in 2021.
Source: Variety