![]() Because it was fictitious in a way, it allowed for a little more boldness.”īoldness is one word for it. I was not interested in a biopic,” he said, but rather, “shaking up the notion of myth-making. He was mythical as a kid, so to suddenly read this version of Ned Kelly through Peter Carey opened up a whole new way of seeing him. We used to have Ned Kelly pies, and you’d go to Ned Kelly theme parks, and you’d go to the library and see his armor. ![]() “The book was such a different perspective on a character I’ve grown up with,” Kurzel said. “I don’t quite know why he’s been immortalized like that in film so many times.” There have been dozens of iterations of the story of the 1800s bushranger and outlaw on screen, stage, and page, including “The Story of the Kelly Gang” in 1906, widely regarded as the world’s first feature-length film. “For whatever reason, it’s become a what’s going to be the next one to fall by the wayside in regards to films about Ned Kelly,” Kurzel said in a phone interview from Tasmania, where he’s been sheltering. This is his first homegrown Australian feature since his 2011 debut “Snowtown,” about a real-life series of gruesome murders in a poor Aussie suburb. “I was aching and yearning to put Australian characters onscreen again,” Kurzel said in a phone interview. ![]() ![]() Caleb Landry Jones Plays Australia’s Deadliest Shooter in ‘Nitram,’ but He’ll Never Say the Real Killer’s Name ![]()
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