An epic adaptation of Richard Flanagan’s critically acclaimed novel also starring Ciarán Hinds and Odessa Young

Jacob Elordi drama series "The Narrow Road to the Deep North" has been acquired by the BBC for the U.K. The five-part adaptation of Richard Flanagan's Booker Prize-winning novel, which also stars Ciarán Hinds and Odessa Young,

Jacob Elordi and Ciarán Hinds play the same man, at different stages of his life, in the Australian war drama The Narrow Road to the Deep North, directed by Justin Kurzel (The Order, Macbeth, True History of the Kelly Gang),

The BBC have picked up an adaptation of the Booker Prize winning 'The Narrow Road to the Deep North' starring Jacob Elordi and Odessa Young.

Sue Deeks, head of BBC programme acquisition, said: "The Narrow Road to the Deep North is a complex, beautiful, and heart-wrenching series which sensitively interweaves several stages in the life of surgeon Dorrigo Evans, from the passion of first love to the unflinching depiction of life as a prisoner of war in occupied Burma.