Nay will play Lars Bogenius, an award-winning star writer at a major German news magazine who secretly has been faking his interviews and reporting. The only one who suspects him is Romero (M’Barek), a fellow journalist who risks his career, and even his family, to bring the truth to light. The film is inspired by the book, Tausend Zeilen Lüge (1000 Lines of :ies) from Juan Morenos, the Spiegel reporter who exposed Relotius. Michael Bully Herbig (Balloon), will direct 1000 Zeilen from a script by Hermann Florin, who will also produce through his Feine Filme production company. Sebastian Werninger of UFA Fiction, the company behind Deutschland 89, will co-produce together with Warner Bros. Germany. Shooting is set to begin this summer in Munich, Berlin, Hamburg and Spain.