All the light we can’t see (Netflix): release date, cast, plots… All the info on this new series

Netflix has decided to tackle a monument of literature by adapting All the light we cannot see, by Anthony Doerr. And who says monument, also says prestigious distribution for this promising mini-series, which should be articulated in four episodes in which we will find two stars of the small and big screen. The streaming platform announced this good news on January 11 on social networks. The project should see the light of day in the course of this year but no precise date has yet filtered. We do know, however, that the series, whose plot takes place in occupied France during the Second World War, was entirely filmed here. Another reason to rejoice in its upcoming arrival on our screens!

All the light we can’t see – Release date

No release date has yet been announced. New information about this already highly anticipated program could soon be revealed.

All the light we can’t see – Cast

In the cast of this highly anticipated series, we find headlining Mark Ruffalo and Hugh Laurie. The British actor, nominated for the Oscars and winner of an Emmy and a Golden Globe, is the interpreter of Daniel LeBlanc, the main locksmith of the Natural History Museum of Paris, while the second who is made known through his role as the taciturn Doctor House embodies the character of Etienne LeBlanc, an eccentric and reclusive World War I hero who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder and records clandestine radio broadcasts as part of the French Resistance. It is Aria Mia Lobertia young woman with achromatopsia, who will play the heroine of All the light we can’t seereports The Guardian. Netflix had launched a global casting to find the rare pearl. The young woman has no training or experience as an actress, but she was strongly noticed during the casting. “She did several auditions that were absolutely remarkable. She’s amazing”, welcomes Steven Knight, the producer. In the realization, we find Shawn Levyto whom we owe the series Stranger Things, Free Guy or The Adam Projecta film that will also be broadcast this year on Netflix.

All the light we can’t see – Plot

The series plunges us into occupied France during the Second World War. We follow the story of Marie-Laure, a young blind Frenchwoman who takes refuge in Saint-Malo with her father, whose path will cross that of Werner, a German soldier, orphan, and genius of electromagnetic transmissions who is commissioned by the Wehrmacht to break the Resistance. The work “takes us, from the Paris of the Occupation to the effervescence of the Liberation, in the wake of two heroes whose existence is turned upside down by the war”can we read .

All the light we can’t see quickly achieved international success upon publication in 2014 and received widespread critical acclaim, receiving the Pulitzer Prize in 2015 and the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction in 2015. It also enjoyed more than 200 weeks in the bestseller list of the New York Times and has sold more than 5.7 million copies in North America in all formats (print, e-book and audio), to which are added 9.5 million copies sold worldwide.

All the light we can’t see – Shooting

For the sake of plausibility with the plot, the series was entirely shot in France, announced Netflix.

All the light we can’t see – Episodes

All the light we can’t see is a mini-series that will consist of 4 episodes.

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