{"id":6659,"date":"2026-02-09T16:09:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T16:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/6659\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T16:09:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T16:09:09","slug":"colin-firth-joins-jack-lowden-in-apple-series-based-on-berlin-noir-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/6659\/","title":{"rendered":"Colin Firth Joins Jack Lowden In Apple Series Based On Berlin Noir Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tEXCLUSIVE: Oscar winner <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/colin-firth\/\" id=\"auto-tag_colin-firth\" data-tag=\"colin-firth\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Colin Firth<\/a> has been cast opposite Jack Lowden in <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/apple-tv\/\" id=\"auto-tag_apple-tv\" data-tag=\"apple-tv\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Apple TV<\/a>\u2018s untitled drama based on <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/metropolis\/\" id=\"auto-tag_metropolis\" data-tag=\"metropolis\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Metropolis<\/a> from Philip Kerr\u2019s bestselling book series <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/berlin-noir\/\" id=\"auto-tag_berlin-noir\" data-tag=\"berlin-noir\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Berlin Noir<\/a>. Oscar winner Peter Straughan wrote the adaptation, which is directed by Tom Shankland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tProduced by Bad Wolf and Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman\u2019s PlayTone, the untitled series is currently filming in Berlin. It marks a reunion for Firth and Straughan after the 2011 film Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, based on John le Carr\u00e9\u2019s book, which was co-written by Straughan and co-starred Firth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe Berlin Noir 14-book series features detective Bernie Gunther; Apple TV\u2019s adaptation begins with Metropolis and his origin story in 1928. Bernie (Lowden) is a police officer, newly promoted to the intimidating and elite Berlin Murder Squad, and must investigate what seems to be a serial killer targeting victims on the fringes of society. Bernie\u2019s Berlin is a city of unprecedented freedom and dizzying turbulence, the Nazis just a distant nightmare waiting in the wings. With the political and social world shifting to a new norm, we see Bernie fighting for truth, whatever the cost.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tFirth will play Paul Lohser, a brilliant but prickly Murder Detective with the Berlin Police. Meticulous, anti-social, well-educated, he\u2019s everything Bernie (Lowden) isn\u2019t. And as his partner and unlikely mentor, Lohser is Bernie\u2019s best and only hope of catching the killer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tJane Tranter, Dan McCulloch and Ryan Rasmussen executive produce for Bad Wolf, alongside Straughan and Shankland; Hanks and Goetzman executive produce for PlayTone. Kerr\u2019s widow, novelist Jane Thynne, who owns the copyright in the Bernie Gunther novels through their company Thynker Ltd c\/o United agents, serves as consulting producer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tFirth will next be seen in Guy Ritchie\u2019s Young Sherlock series on Prime Video set for premiere March 4. He also stars in Steven Spielberg\u2019s upcoming UFO movie Disclosure and he reprises his role of Harry Hart alongside Taron Egerton in Matthew Vaughn\u2019s upcoming Kingsman: The Blue Bloods. Firth is represented by Independent Talent and CAA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Oscar winner Colin Firth has been cast opposite Jack Lowden in Apple TV\u2018s untitled drama based on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6660,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[3530,112,5820,5821,190,5822],"class_list":{"0":"post-6659","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-berlin","8":"tag-apple-tv","9":"tag-berlin","10":"tag-berlin-noir","11":"tag-colin-firth","12":"tag-germany","13":"tag-metropolis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}