HBO's 'Oslo' Trailer Brings A Tony Award-Winning Classic To Film

HBO and HBO Max are known for featuring the creme-de-la-creme of Brit-led content, either co-productions like Chernobyl or shows studded with U.K. talent, like The Nevers. But HBO has also long done original movies, some of which are also British-backed pieces. The channel has brought over everything from Peter Morgan's The Special Relationship to the more recent Brexit with Benedict Cumberbatch. The latest to hit these shores will be Oslo, a made-for-TV film based on the Tony award-winning 2017 play by J. T. Rogers.

The original three-hour stage production was a dramatization based on the true story of Norwegian diplomat Mona Juul and her psychologist husband, Terje Rød-Larsen, who organized the secret backdoor negotiations between Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat. Those meetings led to the breakthrough negotiations between Palestine and Israel in 1993. The play took home the Tony Award for Best Play and Best Featured Actor in a Play for Michael Aronov (The Americans). It ran simultaneously in both New York and London at the Royal National Theatre, where it was nominated for multiple Laurence Olivier Awards.

The new version puts Ruth Wilson (His Dark Materials) and Andrew Scott (Fleabag) as the central couple, with Jeff Wilbusch (Unorthodox) taking on Aronov's role of Uri Savir, the Director-General of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The trailer looks as intense as the stage play feels.