A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Netflix's 'All the Light We Can't See'

“The chance to work with truly engaged, intelligent and passionate people is the greatest privilege.” Netflix has unveiled a new 4-minute behind-the-scenes featurette of its acclaimed upcoming book. review All the Light We Cannot See, an epic WWII survival thriller. Directed by Shawn Levy, there's so much to the book that they've split it into a four-part series - essentially two feature-length films that will debut as a mini-series later this year. He even says in this video that he went to make a 4 hour long film. All the Light We Cannot See tells the story of the extraordinary power of human connection. For a decade, it focused on the lives of Marie-Laure Leblanc, a blind French woman who took refuge with her uncle, and Werner Pfennig, a brilliant German teenager expert in radio repair. Through a shared secret connection, they find faith in humanity and the possibility of hope. With Louis Hofmann as Werner, Lars Eidinger, Marion Bailey, with Hugh Laurie, Mark Ruffalo and Aria Mia Loberti as Marie-Laure. This behind-the-scenes look focuses on how they cast real blind actors to bring this exceptionally moving story to the screen. It looks like it's going to be beautiful - I'll be watching.

Here is the featurette "An Introduction" for the Netflix series All the Light We Cannot See, on YouTube:

You can watch the first trailer for Netflix's All the Light We Cannot See here or the second trailer.

Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel written by Anthony Doerr, Netflix's All The Light We Cannot See is a groundbreaking limited series that follows the story of Marie-Laure, a young blind French girl and her father, Daniel LeBlanc. , who flee German-occupied Paris with a legendary diamond to prevent it from falling into Nazi hands. Relentlessly pursued by a cruel Gestapo officer who seeks to possess the stone for selfish purposes, Marie-Laure and Daniel soon find refuge in Saint-Malo, where they settle in with a reclusive uncle who clandestinely transmits radio broadcasts. as part of the resistance. But here, in this once idyllic seaside town, Marie-Laure's path also collides inexorably with that of the most unlikely of kindred spirits: Werner, a brilliant teenager enlisted by the Hitler regime to track illegal broadcasts, who also shares a bond secret with Marie-Laure. like his faith in humanity and the possibility of hope.

All the Light We Cannot See is a series written and created by writer Steven Knight (Seventh Son, Pawn Sacrifice, Burnt, Allied, Woman Walks Ahead, The Girl in the Spider's Web , Serenity, Spencer), and it is directed by filmmaker Shawn Levy (Just in Time, Big Fat Liar, Just Married, Cheaper by the D...