Brisbane abuzz with celluloid action as Eddie Jones the movie starts to take shape
The film crew spotted around Brisbane this week is not just shooting any old superhero movie ... it’s a film about supercoach Eddie Jones and the back story to one of sport’s greatest upsets.
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The film crew spotted around Brisbane this week is not just shooting any old superhero movie ... it’s a film about rugby supercoach Eddie Jones.
True. The Jones story is being brought to the screen or more particular the essence and back story to one of sport’s greatest upsets.
News Corp Australia spotted extras wearing Japanese 2015 World Cup jerseys for an action sequence at Ballymore.
That can only mean a recreation of Jones’ masterful lead role in the 34-32 overthrow of the Springboks to open the 2015 tournament in England.
Kiwi actor Temuera Morrison, who starred in the 1990s classic Once Were Warriors as Jake “The Muss” Heke, has been cast in the Jones’ role for the film which is being directed by Max Mannix, a former NRL player for Canterbury and Illawarra in the 1980s.
Morrison was sighted in Brisbane on Thursday at Wests Rugby Club.
“The Miracle of Brighton” it may become but “Eddie Jones’s Diary” would fit as a working title for the movie.
If there’s a 2007 flashback sequence to his time with the Queensland Reds it will have tones of a sporting tragedy, “Eddie Jones and the Temple of Doom.”
It is a life story of sorts that explores Jones’ Japanese heritage and life-shaping factors for his early life.
News Corp Australia caught Brendan Magee in make-up at work as an extra in an old Randwick jersey for a 1980s scene from Jones’ club days in Sydney.
“I knew the ‘80s mo would come back into fashion,” the Beaudesert Warriors lock-cum-club president said.
Only the grandest rugby stories make it to the screen.
Hollywood icon Clint Eastwood directed the 2009 film Invictus, which starred Morgan Freeman as South African President Nelson Mandela and Matt Damon as a short, muscular version of Springboks skipper Francois Pienaar.
It was a rousing depiction of the power of rugby in helping to unite South Africa, beyond apartheid, in the run to the 1995 Rugby World Cup triumph over the All Blacks.
In the Jones’ movie, there has been no sighting of Wallabies coach Michael Cheika playing a bit part as himself in any of his six Test losses to Eddie’s England teams. Ouch!
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