After recently seeing the Frankfurt Trials in the Disney Plus series “Deutsches Haus,” we can now expect to see the Nuremberg Trials of the top war criminals as a moving image adaptation. However, this is not from the German house itself, but by the American director James Vanderbiltwho gathered a number of Hollywood stars for the Nazi drama ‘Nuremberg’.
The “Gladiator” star is here Russel Crowe“James Bond” villain Rami Malek And Michael Shannon (“The Shape of Water”), who in their role look at the historic court hearings of 1945 and 1946 from different perspectives.
That’s what ‘Nuremberg’ is about
How reported, In ‘Nuremberg’ Russell Crowe plays the war criminal Hermann Göring, who is described as Hitler’s right-hand man and must now answer for his actions in court. American psychiatrist Douglas Kelly – played by Rami Malek – is assigned to determine whether war criminals like Göring are psychologically capable of participating in the trial. Michael Shannon will take on the role of Judge Robert H. Jackson, who is leading the trial as lead prosecutor.
While James Vanderbilt made his directorial debut in 2015 with “The Moment of Truth,” the filmmaker is best known as a screenwriter and producer of films like “Zodiac” and “Scream 6.” For ‘Nuremberg’ the American takes the director’s chair again, while he is also responsible for the script. which is based on the 2013 novel ‘The Nazi and the Psychiatrist’ by Jack El-Hai.
Filming is expected to start in Hungary in February 2024. It is not yet known when we will finally see the historical drama.