Luke Evans, Daniel Brühl to Lead TNT’s ‘The Alienist’ https://t.co/qBud3yJQwi
— Variety (@Variety) November 28, 2016
Brühl plays the tile character, Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, who's trying to understand what makes a man a murderer. He also has past trauma.
Evans will play John Moore, Kreizler's friend.
Set in 1896 New York, Laszlo and John are enlisted by then NYPD commissioner Teddy Roosevelt to investigate a series of murders of boy prostitutes.
The series is based on Caleb Carr’s bestseller of the same name. Cary Fukunaga, Eric Roth ,Hossein Amini, and Steve Golin and Rosalie Swedlin all serve as executive producers. Jakob Verbruggen serves as executive producer and director. Production will begin in 2017 in Budapest for a late-2017 premiere on TNT
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