eOne Acquires TV Rights To Bruce Henderson’s ‘Sons and Soldiers’ Book With Eric Tuchman & David Ayer
Entertainment One has acquired the television rights to Bruce Henderson’s book Sons and Soldiers: The Untold Story of the Jews Who Escaped the Nazis and Returned with the U.S. Army to Fight Hitler, to develop as a series, with Emmy winner Eric Tuchman (The Handmaid’s Tale) attached to pen the adaptation and David Ayer to direct. Ayer and Chris Long’s Cedar Park Entertainment will produce with Storyby Entertainment as part of their first-look deals with eOne. eOne is the studio and will distribute the project worldwide.
Sons and Soldiers is the little-known saga of young German Jews, dubbed The Ritchie Boys, who fled Nazi Germany in the 1930s, came of age in America, and returned to Europe at enormous personal risk as members of the U.S. Army to play a key role in the Allied victory. The book was originally published in 2017 by William Morrow.
Tuchman...
Sons and Soldiers is the little-known saga of young German Jews, dubbed The Ritchie Boys, who fled Nazi Germany in the 1930s, came of age in America, and returned to Europe at enormous personal risk as members of the U.S. Army to play a key role in the Allied victory. The book was originally published in 2017 by William Morrow.
Tuchman...
- 10/19/2018
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
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