Netflix Orders Shawn Levy and Steven Knight's WWII Series ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE

Netflix has greenlit a four-part series based on Anthony Doerr’s Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller All The Light We Cannot See. The series is being developed by Stranger Things director and producer Shawn Levy and Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight.

Knight is set to write the series, and Levy, who recently helmed Free Guy, is going to direct all four episodes. This is a talented team of talent, and this seems like it’ll be a great and exciting project for them to take on.

All the Light We Cannot See tells the story of Marie-Laure, a teenager who is blind, and Werner, a German soldier, whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II.

Levy and the producers have launched a worldwide casting search for the lead to play teenage Marie-Laure, and it’s said that actresses who are blind or low vision are especially encouraged to apply.

Here’s the synopsis from the book which offers a bit more detail on the story:

Marie-Laure lives in Paris near the Museum of Natural History, where her father works. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel.

In a mining town in Germany, Werner Pfennig, an orphan, grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find that brings them news and stories from places they have never seen or imagined. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments and is enlisted to use his talent to track down the resistance. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, Doerr illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another.

Source: Deadline