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When producer Jo Porter met author Richard Flanagan in 2017, she knew his Booker Prize-winning novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North was ripe for screen adaptation.
More than seven years later, a five-part miniseries based on the story is set to be released on Prime Video, with Jacob Elordi leading a cast that includes Ciarán Hinds, Olivia DeJonge, Odessa Young, Heather Mitchell, and Thomas Weatherall.
While the process may have taken a bit longer than she thought when