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Simon West (director) Duncan Falconer, Warren Davis II (screenplay) Dominic Cooper, Austin Stowell, Gemma Chan, Thomas Kretschmann, Tyler Hoechlin, Tom Felton Lauren Wolkstein (director) Christopher Radcliff (co-director/screenplay) Alex Pettyfer, James Freedson-Jackson, Emily Althaus, Gene Jones, Owen Campbell, Tobias Campbell Next up for the director is Hungry Ghosts, Matchbox Pictures’ 4-part drama commissioned by SBS, which sees a vengeful spirit wreak havoc across the Vietnamese Australian community in Melbourne.Universal Pictures / Blumhouse Productions / Stage 6 FilmsĪdam Robitel (director) Leigh Whannell (screenplay) Lin Shaye, Angus Sampson, Leigh Whannell, Spencer Locke, Caitlin Gerard, Kirk Acevedo, Bruce Davison

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He’d have liked to have directed more films but has ridden the TV drama wave with credits including Reckoning, Deep Water, The Code, Peter Allen: Not the Boy Next Door and Love Child. It is Seet’s second feature following Two Fists, One Heart in 2008. Kathy Morgan International pre-sold the film to a bunch of territories/regions including France, South East Asia, Eastern Europe and the Middle East. Good Deed Entertainment has acquired the North American rights to the film funded by Screen Australia, the South Australian Film Corporation, Piccadilly Pictures, Aurora Global Media Capital and Salt Media and Entertainment.

He wears his heart on his sleeve and you feel his inner grief and sadness.” He’s vitally robust and energetic, but has a very sensitive, almost fragile demeanour. He’s one of the most sensitive, open actors that I’ve ever worked with, young or old, completely in touch with his emotions.

Seet hails Little, who has since appeared in Kim Farrant’s Angel of Mine, Hoodlum/Netflix’s Tidelands and Playmaker Media’s Reckoning, as an “absolute discovery,” explaining: “I can’t imagine how we would have made the film without him. Little sent in a self-test which was so good the director and producers flew to Brisbane to meet with him to make sure it wasn’t a fluke. I think audiences will have a good cry, but there is a layer of optimism.”Ĭasting directors Ann Robinson and Hannah Charlton searched far and wide for an actor to play Storm Boy. We’ve passed the baton of the story onto another generation. Seet says: “Justin’s script, which gives the two time frames, is brilliant, underlining the timeliness of the story. Little is the young Michael, aka Storm Boy, who befriends Fingerbone Bill (Jamieson), an Aboriginal man, and rescues three pelican chicks whose mother was killed by hunters. When his grand-daughter Maddy (Davies), who worries about the environmental impact of the deal, rebels against her father, he tells her the story of his youth when he lived with his father Hideaway Tom (Courtney) in a small shack between Ninety Mile Beach and the Coorong. Scripted by Justin Monjo, the plot follows Rush as Michael Kingley, a successful retired businessman who goes to Adelaide as the company he founded decides whether or not to lease vast farming lands in the Pilbara to a mining company. Storm Boy, which stars Geoffrey Rush, Finn Little, Jai Courtney, Trevor Jamieson and Morgana Davies, launches on more than 300 screens this Thursday. “I asked them, ‘Do you know my history?’ Safran’s film was wonderful, a classic, and as I left the meeting I wondered if I had what it takes to pull it off.”Įnthusiastic responses to previews staged by Sony Pictures and screenings at the St George OpenAir Cinema suggest he’s nailed it. So when producers, Ambience Entertainment’s Michael Boughen and Matthew Street asked him to direct a contemporary re-imagining of the movie, he did not hesitate.

Storm boy morgan davies movie#

His uncle took him to the movie which made such an impression he kept the film’s poster, which still adorns his bedroom. The director was born in Australia but lived in Malaysia until he was 12. Shawn Seet was 12 when he saw Henri Safran’s Storm Boy, the 1976 family drama based on Colin Thiele’s acclaimed novel. (L-R) Jai Courtney, Finn Little and Shawn Seet.