Jacob Elordi and Ciarán Hinds play the same man, at different stages of his life, in the Australian war drama The Narrow Road to the Deep North, directed by Justin Kurzel (The Order, Macbeth, True History of the Kelly Gang), which the BBC has acquired for the U.K.

The adaptation of Richard Flanagan’s Booker Prize-winning novel of the same name from Sony Pictures Television-backed Curio Pictures consists of five episodes of 45 minutes each. The series, adapted by writer Shaun Grant, will premiere on Prime Video in Australia, New Zealand, and Canada and then air on BBC One and stream on the BBC iPlayer in the U.K.

“The series is a savagely beautiful five-part saga charting the life of Dorrigo Evans (played by Jacob Elordi as a young man, with Ciarán Hinds as the older Dorrigo), through his passionate love affair with Amy Mulvaney (Odessa Young), his...