Jacob Elordi endures the horrors of a World War II prison camp in the new trailer for the upcoming miniseries, The Narrow Road to the Deep North.
Based on Richard Flanagan’s celebrated 2014 novel of the same name, Elordi stars as Dorrigo Evans, a young man from Tasmania, who joins the Australian army to fight the Axis powers in the Pacific, only to wind up captured. Forced alongside other POWs to help build to the Burma railroad, the trailer shows how Dorrigo retained some semblance of hope and strength through the memories of his love affair with Amy Mulvaney (Odessa Young). Though their romance was not without its own complications, as Amy was married to Dorrigo’s uncle at the time.
All that, however, comprises just half the epic. The Narrow Road also stars Ciarán Hinds as Dorrigo in his later years, now a prominent surgeon and reluctant war hero. “We all left part of ourselves in that jungle,” the elder Dorrigo says at the end of the trailer. “Memory is the only true justice.”
Along with Elordi, Hinds, and Young, The Narrow Road to the Deep North stars Olivia DeJonge, Heather Mitchell, Show Kasamatsu, Thomas Weatherall, and Simon Baker. The show was helmed by Australian filmmaker Justin Kurzel, best known for films such as The Order, True History of the Kelly Gang, and a 2015 adaptation of Macbeth.
The first two episodes of The Narrow Road to the Deep North recently premiered at the Berlin Film Festival, and it’s slated to arrive on Amazon Prime Video Australia on April 18. While the show has additional distribution deals in Europe, the U.K., and Latin America, details on a U.S. release have yet to be confirmed.
From Rolling Stone US
