Wolf Creek creator Greg McLean wants a gig to sink teeth into
DIRECTOR Greg McLean is on the hunt for new projects and says he’s hoping to secure some of Australia’s top actors to star in them.
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DIRECTOR Greg McLean is on the hunt for new projects and says he’s hoping to secure some of Australia’s top actors to star in them.
McLean has a clean slate after back-to-back projects over the past several years that include his most recent films, Jungle and The Belko Experiment. “I am a big fan of a lot of the Aussie actors, there are a lot of them I’d like to work with,” he told Confidential.
“I’d love to work with Chris Hemsworth and Russell Crowe is legendary, and I really love Cate Blanchett.”
McLean is firmly on the radar in Hollywood thanks to his hugely successful Wolf Creek franchise, but also Jungle that starred Daniel Radcliffe and Joel Jackson.
“I am basically clearing my slate out to find a new bunch of projects for the next couple of years. There are a few things circling but nothing locked in that I want to get into right now.”
McLean splits his time between Los Angeles and Australia and while he focused mostly on film in the past, television is a field that excites him. “The prize was always the big movies but now sometimes the TV shows are kind of bigger than movies, so it is a different landscape at the moment,” he said.
“A lot of the stuff I’ve done has been pretty squarely in the horror genre. In the past, I worked on particular projects that maybe haven’t appealed to A-list but that is changing with perception now where I think horror as a genre has become the new cool thing and hugely commercial with a film like It being the biggest grossing film of the year.”
The Belko Experiment is released to DVD this week, set in Colombia where a group of Americans are locked in a corporate office and forced into a twisted social experiment.
“The conspiracy element was one of the things I really loved about the script,” McLean said.
“If you know anything about conspiracies on the new world order and barcoding people and that stuff, there are whole internet sites devoted to the notion of super corporations controlling the world.”