It’s been a busy few years for Shawn Levy. In the past few years alone, he’s directed Free Guy and The Adam Project, and until the strikes kicked in he was underway on Deadpool 3 – all while continuing to produce and director on Stranger Things. Somehow, in among that, he also found the time to direct all four episodes of All The Light We Cannot See – a World War 2 drama coming to Netflix, adapting the Pulizer-winning novel by Anthony Doerr. The series – featuring the likes of Mark Ruffalo and Hugh Laurie in its cast – is a series set across both sides of the war, in which blind French girl Marie-Laure’s radio broadcasts bring hope to the airwaves. But, typically, Nazis aren’t big on hope. Check out the trailer.
At the heart of the show is Aria Mia Loberti as Marie-Laure, whose words of comfort bring light to the days of Louis Hofmann’s Werner Pfenning – a German boy forced to sign up for the Nazis, who’s also waiting for the war to end. Their connection plays out against the backdrop of death and destruction, bringing a little light in even the darkest times.
The series was developed and written by Steven Knight, with a score by James Newton Howard, and it’s due to stream in full on Netflix on 2 November.