How the Queen’s death cost this Aussie filmmaker $1m
A Melbourne-based producer and director somehow raised $100 million to make a movie starring Robbie Williams as a CGI monkey. It didn’t all go smoothly.
Robbie Williams is played by actor Jonno Davies as a monkey in the biopic Better Man. Paramount Pictures
There is an old saying in the movie game, says producer Paul Currie, that it’s a minor miracle when a movie actually gets made.
Take Currie’s latest project, Better Man, a collaboration with the director of Hugh Jackman hit The Greatest Showman, fellow Australian Michael Gracey. Currie faced the unenviable task of raising $100 million on a pitch that the life story of singer Robbie Williams was best told as a musical biopic, featuring the star transmogrified into a computer-generated monkey.
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