Tom Stoppard’s ‘Leopoldstadt’ Shaping Up As A Series: Patrick Marber Scripting For Stephen Daldry To Direct With Amblin’s Steven Spielberg EP
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: This is early stage, no deals are done and it might not land until the strike’s over, but the most celebrated play to come along in a good long time is to be turned into a limited TV series with top talent.
The play is Sir Tom Stoppard’s Leopoldstadt, which had a successful West End run before moving to Broadway last September. I’ve heard that Amblin and executive producer Steven Spielberg are shopping it with Patrick Marber adapting (the Closer writer/director was the play’s original director when it opened in London and he directed the current Broadway incarnation also), and the series will be directed by Stephen Daldry, The Crown multiple Emmy winner.
The play, which won the 2020 Olivier Award, is a chronicle of a Jewish family in Vienna over 50 years, from the turn of the 20th Century through the hardship of WWI, through the Nazi scourge of WWII and the Holocaust, and beyond.
WWII was devastating to the family, as numerous members were murdered in the Holocaust. Stoppard himself lost all four of his grandparents in concentration camps, and inspired the play, with speculation Leopoldstadt will be Stoppard’s final masterwork.
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