Variety is reporting that Connect3 Productions and Boutique Films are teaming up to develop and produce The Chase, a high-end drama series which revolves around the real-life covert operations carried out by a small team of Mossad agents who hunted Nazi war criminals in South America.
The series is planned for three seasons, and will draw on the research and findings of Cineflix Media’s docudrama Nazi Hunters. It will feature composite characters, based upon real-life Mossad operatives, and “will have something of a Narcos flavor”.
According to the site, The Chase “will range over 20 years, tracking Mossad special agents as they battle to dig up clues, hunt down, capture and prosecute three of the most notorious of Nazi fugitives. Season 1 focuses on the man-hunt for Adolf Eichmann, an Eastern Europe Holocaust organizer captured in Argentina in 1960, Season 2 on the heinous Josef Mengele, sought for his Auschwitz genetic experiments. Season 3 homes in on Klaus Barbie, the ‘Butcher of Lyon,’ who attempted to replicate a Nazi regime in Bolivia.”
“It’s surprising how little is known about these stories, considering how extraordinary they are, and there are multiple stories,” said Pablo Salzman of Connect3. “There were proto-fascist dictators in Latin America and Israel was a brand new country with very limited resources which decided to take on this true mission for justice.”
