Jack Lowden has been set for the lead role in Apple TV+’s yet-to-be-titled drama series based on Metropolis, the last of Philip Kerr’s Berlin Noir novels.
The series will shoot in Berlin with Tom Shankland directing from a script adapted by Conclave Oscar winner Peter Straughan.
Lowden currently stars with Gary Oldman in Slow Horses, recently ordered by Apple TV+ for a seventh season and nominated earlier this week for the best drama series Emmy. Shankland is known for projects including Netflix miniseries The Leopard and BBC series Rogue Heroes.
Hailing from Bad Wolf and PlayTone, the Metropolis series will be executive produced by Jane Tranter, Dan McCulloch and Ryan Rasmussen for Bad Wolf, and Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman for PlayTone. Straughan and Shankland will also serve as executive producers.
The Berlin Noir novels feature the character of detective Bernie Gunther. Metropolis, set in 1928, tells the origin story of Gunther, a police officer newly promoted to the elite Berlin Murder Squad who must investigate what seems to be a serial killer targeting victims on the fringes of society.
British author Kerr published 14 Gunther novels between 1989 and 2019. He finished writing Metropolis shortly before he died from cancer in 2018.
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