Nuremberg, a film adaptation of Jack El-Hai's 2013 book, The Nazi and the Psychiatrist: Hermann Göring, Dr. Douglas M. Kelley, and a Fatal Meeting of Minds at the End of WWII (PublicAffairs), will begin filming in Hungary next month. The project is directed by James Vanderbilt (Zodiac, Truth), who also wrote the screenplay.
The cast includes Russell Crowe as Göring, Rami Malek as Kelley, and Michael Shannon as Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson, the chief prosecutor of the first Nuremberg trial.
Bluestone Entertainment (Slingshot), Walden Media (Ray, Everest), and Szèchenyi Funds acquired the rights to El-Hai's book and Vanderbilt's script. Richard Saperstein, William Sherak, Vanderbilt, Brad Fischer, Istvan Major, and Paul Neinstein are producing, along with Filmsquad. El-Hai is an executive producer.