Soon after All the Light We Cannot See was released in 2014 – and before it would go on to win the Pulitzer Prize – the screen rights were quickly snapped up by a large motion picture studio with an intention to turn the story into a feature film.
The screenplay was about 100 pages, which would have resulted in a movie about 100 minutes long. But given that All the Light We Cannot See is more than 500 pages, that would have left a lot of the story out of the screen adaptation. Suffice to say, that project never got off the ground.
But that’s when producer/director Shawn Levy quickly got Netflix to grab the screen rights, in an effort to turn it into a four-part limited series.
“I was thrilled, particularly with Netflix’s global reach,” said Anthony Doerr, author of All the Light We Cannot See. “The book was super popular in all kinds…
