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Jack Campbell and Anna Lise Phillips will take the lead roles in the new Australian horror/thriller, The Pack to be filmed in South Australia. Principal photography begins on Monday 7 July.
Jack Campbell is best known for his role of Dr Steven Taylor in Australia’s much loved medical drama All Saints and for his portrayal of infamous gangster Big Jim Devine in the top rating drama series Underbelly: Razor.
Anna Lise Phillips’ first major film role was in The Boys and she also featured more recently in the acclaimed film Animal Kingdom and the US television series Revolution.
Both actors have returned from Los Angeles to begin work on this Breakout Movies film described by producers Kent Smith and Michael Robertson as “Straw Dogs meets The Grey”.
The Pack will be the debut feature for well-known high-end TV commercials director, Nick Robertson. The story is set over one night when a farming family on a remote sheep station is attacked by a pack of wild dogs.
KOJO, the South Australian Film Corporation and international sales agent Lightning Entertainment are major investors in the film.
“The Pack was presented to buyers at this years Cannes Film Market by Lightning Entertainment, creating a high level of interest from the market. Substantial presales have been made into key European and Latin American territories,” Smith said.
VFX and all post work for the film will be managed by KOJO's Marty Pepper, whose previous post credits include management of the VFX work on films including Scott Hicks’ The Lucky One, Greg Mclean’s Wolf Creek 2 and Jennifer Kent's The Babadook.
Producers Kent Smith and Michael Robertson formed Breakout Movies to produce
quality action, horror and thriller titles as part of a broader slate of genre-style films aimed at world audiences. The Pack is the first film in the Breakout slate – others in development include Nothing To Lose, A Town Called Blood Red and Tinderbox.
Kent Smith is managing partner of Kojo – the Adelaide-based post and VFX company, whose recent credits include Wolf Creek 2, The Babadook and Scott Hick’s latest film Fallen.
Michael Robertson heads Sydney-based Prodigy Movies, well known in Aussie genre film circles as the producer of the hit film Black Water and more recently Road Train and The Reef, hailed by critics as the “best shark film since Jaws”.
Principal photography begins July 7.