Storm Boy remake takes over Port Elliot
MR Percival is back — and he’s brought some Hollywood friends with him — as filming gets underway on the remake of Australian classic Storm Boy.
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MR Percival is back — and he’s brought some Hollywood friends with him — as filming gets underway on the remake of Australian classic Storm Boy.
SA coastal town Port Elliot has been transported back to the 1950s for the shoot, which stars Hollywood heavyweights Geoffrey Rush and Jai Courtney, and young Queensland actor Finn Little as Mike Kingley junior.
These first photos from the set on The Strand show Suicide Squad star Courtney as Hideaway Tom, Finn in the title role — made famous in the 1976 original by a then unknown SA actor, Greg Rowe — and of course, key character, the popular pelican Mr Percival.
West Australian actor Trevor Jamieson who starred in The Secret River on stage and television, is playing Fingerbone Bill, famously portrayed by indigenous star David Gulpilil 40 years ago.
The updated film version of Colin Thiele’s classic South Australian novel began shooting this week, and will feature Oscar winner Rush as Mike Kingley, a grandfather who tells his story in flashbacks to his troubled teenage daughter.
In production here since June, filming is expected to continue for at least four weeks, with much of it located in the Coorong.
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