EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate Tv has landed its first Israeli drama sequence.
The U.S. main is teaming with Israel’s Sure and Gil Codecs on a spy drama based mostly on the hunt for Physician Josef Mengele starring Darkish’s Oliver Masucci.
The as-yet-untitled present comes from vet Israeli producer Assaf Gil, who’s creating with Moshe Zonder (Tehran) and Ronit Weiss-Berkowitz (The Lady from Oslo). Lionsgate is co-producing and distributing.
Masucci, who performed Ulrich Nielsen in Netflix smash Darkish and portrayed Adolf Hitler in 2015’s Look Who’s Again, stars as Uri, the alpha male of a kibbutz and one of many pioneers of the state of Israel. He and his spouse Anna (Ania Bukstein) determine to depart behind their traumatic previous as Holocaust survivors and begin a brand new life in Israel. They hold quiet about their previous for 25 years, till the day when Israeli spy company Mossad forces Uri to return to Germany and infiltrate a cell of SS veterans with the goal of finding the Nazi battle felony, Mengele, who managed to flee on the finish of World Battle II.
Nicknamed the ‘Angel of Dying’, Mengele grew to become identified for performing lethal experiments on prisoners at Auschwitz. He eluded seize regardless of extradition requests by the West German authorities and operations by Mossad, and died in 1979 beneath a false identify.
Gil’s indie Gil Codecs, which produces Israeli variations of Married at First Sight and MasterChef, is making the sequence. Naya Bienstock, Ido Tako, Rotem Keinan and Sarit Vino-Elad additionally star. Gabriel Bibliowicz (Evening Remedy) serves as director, and Zonder and Weiss-Berkowitz are the scriptwriters. Adam Berkowitz of Lenore Leisure Group is an EP on the sequence.
