Mark Ruffalo and Hugh Laurie have joined the cast of Netflix's limited series All the Light We Cannot See, based on Anthony Doerr's Pulitzer Prize-winning book. Variety reported that Ruffalo and Laurie "will star in the bestselling novel's four-part TV adaptation alongside newcomer Aria Mia Loberti, a blind actress who was previously announced as the leading role of Marie-Laure.... Ruffalo will play Marie-Laure's father, Daniel LeBlanc, the principal locksmith at the Museum of Natural History in Paris.... Laurie has been cast as Etienne LeBlanc, an eccentric and reclusive World War I hero suffering from PTSD."
The project is written by Steven Knight (Peaky Blinders) and directed by Shawn Levy (Stranger Things, Free Guy, Shadow and Bone). Levy and Knight executive produce alongside Dan Levine and Josh Barry of Levy's 21 Laps Entertainment. Joe Strechay (See, The OA) serves as associate producer, blindness and accessibility consultant.