‘All Quiet’s Ed Berger To Direct, Oscar Isaac In Talks To Star In ‘Helltown’ Drama From Team Downey At Amazon
13.03.2023 - 23:31
/ deadline.com
Newly minted Oscar winner Ed Berger, director, co-writer and producer of All Quiet On the Western Front, which was named Best International Film last night, is set to direct and executive produce Helltown, an eight-episode crime thriller in development at Amazon Studios from Mohamad El Masri (Severance), Robert Downey Jr., Susan Downey’s Team Downey. Oscar Isaac (Moon Knight) is in discussions to star in and executive produce the project, based on the book of the same name by Casey Sherman.
Written by El Masri, who serves as executive producer and showrunner, Helltown centers on Kurt Vonnegut (Isaac) before he was a renowned author and cultural lightning rod. In 1969 Kurt was a struggling novelist and car salesman living life with his wife and five children on Cape Cod. When two women disappear and are later discovered murdered underneath the sand dunes on the outskirts of Provincetown, Kurt becomes obsessed and embroiled in the chilling hunt for a serial killer and forms a dangerous bond with the prime suspect.
Robert Downey Jr., Susan Downey and Amanda Burrell executive produce for Team Downey; Isaac would executive produce with Gena Konstantinakos through his Mad Gene banner, which would produce alongside Team Downey and Amazon Studios. Sherman also executive produces.
Berger’s All Quiet on the Western Front earned nine Oscar nominations, winning four trophies — a historic haul for a German film — including Best International Feature film, Best Production Design, Best Music (Original Score) and Best Cinematography. Berger also won for Best Direction at the BAFTAs where All Quiet swept top categories, including Best Film, Best Film Not the English Language, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best