Following in the footsteps of Brad Pitt in Quentin Tarantino's epic Inglorious Bastards, Al Pacino will now be hunting Nazis in America in a new Amazon Prime TV series by Jordan Peele entitled Hunters, a 10-episode series that will premiere in 2020.
The series is said to be based on real events and features Pacino as an older Jewish man who chases down Nazi officials who fled Germany.
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The project, produced by Peele's Monkeypaw Productions and Sonar Entertainment, was created by David Weil (Moonfall), who will write and executive produce.
According to Deadline magazine, the series "follows a diverse band of Nazi Hunters living in 1977 New York City. The Hunters, as they're known, have discovered that hundreds of high ranking Nazi officials are living among us and conspiring to create a Fourth Reich in the US. The eclectic team of Hunters will set out on a bloody quest to bring the Nazis to justice and thwart their new genocidal plans."
But according to an interview in the New York Jewish week with Mark Weitzman, an official of the Simon Wiesenthal Center – named for one of the most famous Nazi hunters – "Hunters" does not accurately represent the center's namesake.
"If Pacino is supposed to be Simon Wiesenthal – that does not come through," Weitzman said.
Wiesenthal worked in Vienna after surviving the Mauthausen Concentration Camp in Austria, conducting extensive research that helped to prosecute many war criminals.
Jordan Peele won an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for his film Get Out in 2017 and is known for his artistic versatility as an actor, comedian, writer, director and producer across the genres of comedy, horror, and drama.
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