Idaho author Anthony Doerr was a pretty big deal on a pretty big stage - the Toronto International Film Festival - on Sunday. No, he's not a screenwriter.
But the number one reason the world premiere of the screen adaptation of “All The Light We Cannot See” was TIFF's hottest ticket in town was the fact that attendees were head-over-heels fans of the source material: Doerr's Pulitzer Prize-winning book.
“I’m excited and nervous and just really, really grateful,” said Doerr. “I try to remember every day what a gift it is that I get to tell stories for a living."
"All the Light We Cannot See" is a 2014 war novel set during World War II. Goodreads describes the book as a "stunningly beautiful instant New York Times bestseller about a blind French Girl and a German boy whose paths collied in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II."
The four-episode mini-series stars Louis Hoffman, Aria Mia Loberti, Mark Ruffalo and Hugh Laurie, to name a few. The show will premiere on Netflix on Nov. 2, 2023.
