Colin Firth Joins Apple’s Berlin Noir Series Starring Jack Lowden

Overview

• The Apple TV drama adapts Philip Kerr’s Metropolis from the Berlin Noir novels as a period crime series centered on detective Bernie Gunther.
• Colin Firth will portray Paul Lohser, a meticulous, anti-social Berlin Murder Squad detective who becomes Bernie’s mentor and partner.
• Jack Lowden leads as Bernie Gunther in 1928 Berlin, investigating suspected serial killings targeting victims on the fringes of society.
• Filming is currently taking place in Berlin, with Peter Straughan serving as writer and Tom Shankland directing.
• Bad Wolf and PlayTone produce, with executive producers Jane Tranter, Dan McCulloch, Ryan Rasmussen, Straughan, Shankland, Tom Hanks, and Gary Goetzman, and consulting producer Jane Thynne, who controls the rights.