Netflix has released cast details and first images of its adaptation of the Australian novel Boy Swallows Universe.
Travis Fimmel, Phoebe Tonkin and Simon Baker will lead an ensemble cast for the limited eight-part series, currently shooting in Brisbane.
The novel, by Trent Dalton, is set in working-class Brisbane in the early 1980s and follows 12-year-old Eli Bell and his brother Gus in a tale about drug addiction, poverty, ex-cons and love. The coming-of-age story became Australia’s fastest selling debut novel ever when it was released in 2018 and has since been adapted successfully for the stage.
