{"id":22999,"date":"2025-07-17T09:00:45","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T13:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/worldscreen.com\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T11:59:24","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T15:59:24","slug":"jack-lowden-joins-apple-tvs-berlin-noir-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/jack-lowden-joins-apple-tvs-berlin-noir-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Lowden Joins Apple TV+\u2019s Berlin Noir Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple TV+ has cast Jack Lowden (<em>Slow Horses<\/em>, <em>Dunkirk<\/em>) in the lead role of its new untitled drama based on <em>Metropolis<\/em>, part of Philip Kerr\u2019s best-selling <em>Berlin Noir<\/em> book series.<\/p>\n<p>The TV adaptation will follow detective Bernie Gunther\u2019s origin story in 1928. As a police officer newly promoted to the elite Berlin Murder Squad, he is tasked with investigating what seems to be a serial killer targeting victims on the fringes of society.<\/p>\n<p>Peter Straughan (<em>Conclave<\/em>; <em>Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy<\/em>; <em>Wolf Hall<\/em>) is adapting the book for the screen. Tom Shankland (<em>The Leopard<\/em>, <em>SAS: Rogue Heroes<\/em>, <em>The Serpent<\/em>, <em>House of Guinness<\/em>) is on board to direct. The series is being produced by Bad Wolf and PlayTone.<\/p>\n<p>Executive producers are Jane Tranter, Dan McCulloch and Ryan Rasmussen for Bad Wolf; Straughan, Shankland; and Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman for PlayTone.<\/p>\n<p>Kerr penned 14 Bernie Gunther novels and finished <em>Metropolis<\/em> shortly before he passed away in 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple TV+ has cast Jack Lowden (Slow Horses, Dunkirk) in the lead role of its new untitled drama based on Metropolis, part of Philip Kerr\u2019s best-selling Berlin Noir book series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1412,"featured_media":23006,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[3360,747,10532,10468,10534,10535,10536,10537,10538,10971],"class_list":["post-22999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-apple-tv","tag-bad-wolf","tag-berlin-noir","tag-jack-lowden","tag-metropolis","tag-peter-straughan","tag-philip-kerr","tag-playtone","tag-tom-hanks","tag-tom-shankland","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - 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