Shtisel to be adapted into an American version

Global hit Israeli drama Shtisel is being adapted into an American version.

The show, which besides the name will share few thematic elements with the original Netflix series (pictured), is being written by Lauren Gussis and directed by Kenneth Lonergan, who is best known for his Oscar-winning drama Manchester By the Sea.

Deadline described the remake as “a modern-day Romeo and Juliet story about an ultra-progressive, over-achieving secular 18-year-old woman on the verge of personal freedom, and the strictly observant Orthodox young man to whom she is powerfully drawn – so powerfully that she is willing to uproot her entire life to be with him.”

CBS Studios will produce the remake, while a distribution platform has yet to be named.