Zero Gravity Management (Ozark) is teaming with Romulus Films for a TV series based on Frederick Forsyth's novel The Odessa File. Deadline reported that the conspiracy thriller adaptation "will follow freelance journalist Peter Miller as he infiltrates a shadowy organization of former Nazi SS officers in 1960s Germany, putting himself on a collision course with one of history's most notorious war criminals."
Currently in development, the series will be executive-produced by Jonathan Woolf and Nick Varley for Romulus Films and Simon Fellows, alongside Leon Clarance (Sense8) for Zero Gravity Management. Simon Fellows (Steel Country) wrote the adaptation of the book, which had been previously adapted in the 1974 movie starring Jon Voight.
The new project "is currently being packaged for talent and Zero Gravity says it is in discussions with broadcasters and streaming networks for what is envisioned as an initial eight-episode season with plans for three subsequent seasons that will carry the story through to the present day," Deadline wrote.
"This is not a remake; it's a totally fresh take," said Fellows. "We're combining several genres--period, conspiracy, thriller, action, and a touch of the revenge western--all revolving around a 1960s autobahn-fueled road movie to catch a monster."