Logan Lerman to Star in ‘We Were the Lucky Ones’ Series Adaptation
Logan Lerman is hitting a career stride! Fresh off co-starring alongside Brad Pitt in the film Bullet Train, it has just been announced that the actor will star in the upcoming Hulu series We Were the Lucky Ones, based on Georgia Hunter’s novel of the same name.
Lerman is set to play Addy, a 25-year-old musician and the middle child of the Polish Jewish family the series follows, which is based on Hunter’s own family during World War II.
The book blurb reads as follows:
“The Kurc family shouldn’t have survived the Holocaust. In the spring of 1939 three generations are living relatively normal lives in Poland, despite the hardships Jews face. When war breaks out and the family is cast to the wind, the five Kurc siblings do everything they can to find their way through a devastated continent to freedom.
Addy, a musician, charms his way into possession of a Brazilian visa and into the first class piano lounge on a ship full of refugees bound for Rio; Jakob marries the love of his life in an abandoned house to a soundtrack of air sirens; Mila hides her daughter in a Catholic convent outside of Warsaw, only to return weeks later to find the convent in ruins; Genek endures a brutal winter in a Siberian gulag before embarking with his wife and newborn son on a year-long exodus through Persia to fight for the Allies; and Halina attempts to flee over the Austrian Alps on foot – while pregnant. All this, across continents and often in ignorance as to the fate of the rest of their family, while the wheels of war turn. We Were the Lucky Ones is a profoundly moving and memorable novel based on the author’s family experiences.”
While it’s unknown who will play the other siblings in the story, Joey King, who also stars in Bullet Train, has also been announced as part of the cast.
The limited series has an eight episode order from Hulu and will be written and executive produced by Erica Lipez (Julia, The Morning Show), and directed and executive produced by Thomas Kail (Fosse/Verdon, Hamilton). Hunter will also serve as an executive producer.
We Were the Lucky Ones, Limited Series Premiere, TBA, Hulu
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