And with him as a German star, the rest of the ensemble is also very much European: as 'Deadline' reports, Girl With a Pearl Earring director Peter Webber

Thomas Kretschmann will Lead the film

is back behind the helm of a historical drama movie and this time it will be a World War II movie THE PROMINENTS in which he has already cast Thomas Kretschmann as Bogislaw von Bonin, a German prisoner battling his own demons: complicity in the war’s atrocities and the drug abuse he uses to cope with it. Set in the chaotic final days of World War II, the story follows a group of Nazi Germany’s most prominent prisoners as they are transported across Europe, out of Allied reach, to be used as bargaining chips in the German surrender. On their journey, they endure aerial attacks, collapsing bridges, partisan raids, and the escalating threat of liquidation by their Nazi captors. Hippolyte Girardot and Irène Jacob will play French prime minister

Jakub Gierszal, Valentina Cervi and Vinzenz Kiefer will star

Leon Blum and his wife Janot. Valentina Cervi is playing an Italian partisan fighter and fellow prisoner on the dangerous transport. Vinzenz Kiefer, Jakub Gierszal, and Andreas Lust round out the announced cast.

Hulu has cast Joey King as the lead star of their mini series adaptation of Georgia Hunter's WE WERE THE LUCKY ONES WW2 novel. The eight part mini series, to be produced and penned by Julia's Erica Lipez, will be

Joey King will lead We Were the Lucky Ones adaptation

based on the bestseller about a Jewish family separated at the start of WWII yet determined to reunite. Before that you will watch King in Hulu's The Princess historical movie from July 1st.

The Warded Man will become a series

Based on the sci-fi fantasy novel by Peter V. Brett, THE WARDED MAN TV series is set at Electro Magnetic Productions. The story is set in a distant future where humanity is plagued by terrifying demons that emerge at night with supernatural powers and an all consuming hatred of people. They are barely held at bay by the ancient and magical art of warding, where locals paint mysterious symbols on houses and posts. With the fate of humanity hanging by a thread, one man takes it further, tattooing his body with the lost battle wards to teach humanity how to fight back from the verge of extinction.