NETFLIX AND TF1 TO TURN KEN FOLLETT'S BOOK JACKDAWS INTO NEW WORLD WAR 2 SET TV SERIES WITH LAETITIA CASTA

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TO BECOME WW2 TV SERIES AT NETFLIX

Netflix is teaming up with French broadcaster TF1 on a six episode TV series adaptation of Ken Follett's war drama JACKDAWS (Le reseau

Jackdaws will have six episodes

 corneille)! Set in May 1944, just days before the D-Day landings, it tells the story of Elisabeth “Betty” Clairet (Laetitia Casta), a widowed mother who is tasked with assembling an unlikely commando of five civilian women to carry out a near-impossible mission: infiltrate an impenetrable château housing a key German communications hub and destroy it before the Normandy landings by the Allies. With only a week to prepare, the women must cross occupied territory, assume false identities and infiltrate the heavily guarded fortress by posing as cleaning staff to sabotage the underground communications network. Mathilde Seigner, Lina El Arabi and Michaël Youn round up the lead cast.