Oscar Isaac (Moon Knight) is currently in talks to star in Helltown, a crime-thriller series from Swiss director Ed Berger whose German film, All Quiet on the Western Front, recently won the Academy Award for Best International Feature.
According to Deadline, Helltown is in development at Amazon Studios, and Isaac could star and serve as an executive producer on the project, which is based on author Casey Sherman’s 2022 book, Helltown: The Untold Story of a Serial Killer on Cape Cod.
If Isaac lands the role, he will play late novelist Kurt Vonnegut, who is considered by many to be one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. Since the early 1950s, Vonnegut’s contributions to the literary world have included books like Player Piano, The Sirens of Titan, Cat’s Cradle, Breakfast of Champions, and his most celebrated novel, Slaughterhouse-Five, which catapulted him into stardom in 1969.
Helltown is set before Vonnegut becomes a world-renowned writer. Living as a struggling novelist and car salesman with his wife and children on Cape Cod in Massachusetts, the series will put the writer at the center of a true-crime story when he becomes involved in the hunt for a serial killer and forms a connection with the prime suspect.
The idea of Oscar Isaac portraying someone like Vonnegut seemed to excite many people online when the news broke on Monday (March 12).
This past Sunday (March 11), Berger’s All Quiet on the Western Front won four of the nine Oscars it was nominated for. Berger was nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay.
