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Director hired for Corby telemovie

After shooting a miniseries about the last Australian man executed in Singapore for drug smuggling, director Khoa Do is tackling the controversial story of another Australian convicted criminal: Schapelle Corby.

Do will direct a Nine Network telemovie about Corby, who is serving a 15-year prison term for attempting to smuggle 4.1 kilograms of marijuana into Bali in a body-board bag in 2004.

Filming is due to start in Queensland later this year, produced by Stephen Corvini for FremantleMedia.

Corby’s supporters believe in her innocence despite her conviction.

Do wrote and directed the SBS miniseries Better Man, the saga of young Australian Van Nguyen who was executed in Singapore in 2005, which starred David Wenham, Bryan Brown, Claudia Karvan and Remy Hii.

His credits include Mother Fish, a drama about four refugees who fled Vietnam in 1980; Falling for Sahara, a love story about three African guys who fall for the same girl; and Footy Legends, the saga of a young Vietnamese Australian man in Western Sydney who is obsessed with rugby league.

Among the key characters in the Corby telemovie will be Schapelle’s father Mick, her mother Rosleigh Rose, older sister Mercedes and her Balinese husband Wayan, her half- brother James Kisina and Ron Bakir, the Gold Coast entrepreneur who helped fund her court battle and offered a large reward for information that may lead to her being set free.

The Sydney Morning Herald speculated that Krew Boylan (A Place to Call Home, Cliffy) may play Schapelle and that Michael Caton and Jacki Weaver could be in the frame to play her parents.

Casting has just started so that conjecture is probably premature.

  1. I cannot believe that this movie is going ahead. 100’s of freedom of information documents from within the Howard government prove they witheld vital information from a court of law, deceived its public and orchestrated an unprecendented media campaign against one of its own citizens. Its an absolute SHAME that people continue to profit out of this huge injustice. As for the director, Khoa Do you need to do your research before you make this movie based on lies and smear. For the TRUTH http://www.expendable.tv

  2. Good Aussie name that one (Khoa Do) wonder what part of corrupt Indonesia he’s from?? This “news” story can’t even get the facts right about her sentence??? It was 20 years NOT 15 years and the FACT her “trial” was the most well documented Corrupt Kangaroo Court with virtually ALL defence evidence disallowed, makes the stupid statement of her supporters being foolish cause she was “found guilty” makes THIS Story one of the most insane i’ve read so far. The only parts the story got right is the massive “speculation, innuendo, Conjecture and outright smears”. The fools who sign up for this will have NO jobs in the film industry after it for sure. what a mob of sell out sleeze bags.

  3. I have always admired Jacki Weaver down through the years for her fine acting skills.
    Her part in the up coming mini movie of smears for profit will inevitably be based on the book of bulldust author Emonn Duff whose fantasies and make believe book “Sins of the father” is peddled as truth.
    Sorry Mz Weaver your credibility should you sign on to this film will put you on the same level as the infamous Hanoi Jane Fonda and Jody Powers as any body willing to sell their soul for a cheap two bit rated film based on the disgusting political sacrifice of an innocent Australian female will be forever damned by the ever growing supporters who believe this woman was a victim and never a perpetrator.
    History will bring down those who condemned her to that hell hole.
    And those who partake in this travesty for profit will be held accountable and judged accordingly.
    Disappointing as all those years Mz Weaver you built up a fine professional career which will be undone by this bulldust author and his controversial book.
    Your part in the cruel torment of a poor unfortunate girl may jeopardises her bid for parole, already her metal stability and sanity is borderline and your actions may be just what sends her over the edge and her death will be forever on your hands and so leave yourself open to the wrath of thousands world wide.
    I hope the Corby family sues this Koha Do character and the unknowns actors who try to establish their acting careers by attacking a dead father is unforgivable.

  4. Hey Bernie! Pull your bigoted head in! And who actually are you to think people associated with this project will never work again? Film making is a business. There is no clause in a deal memo that states that those who work on a production have to agree with the content. Peddle your mindless platitudes somewhere else whilst those trying to make a living in the Film Industry continue to apologise to potential employers bringing work to a depleted Industry on your behalf.

  5. Is it necessary to refer to Do’s name in such an ‘un-Australian’ manner? (see Bernie McClafferty’s comment) This is a platform for a creative industry. There is no place for such toxic and unsubstantiated remarks. By the way, any intelligent person would know that Do is not Indonesian. And even if he was, so what?
    Perhaps our friend so look up Joseph McCarthy and The House of Un-American Activities of the late 30s in Hollywood? He might well be enlightened to realise that there is no place for bigots in any civilised society. Bigotry is usually practised by cowards and bullies on people whom they perceive as ‘soft’ targets.
    The role of modern (Australian) cinema is to probe and challenge our collective consciences in an aesthetic manner.
    By the way, often the language these people employ is often an indication of their true nature.

  6. Absolutely no need for racism Bernie. Yes its wrong and broken that this movie will go ahead despite the 100’s of Freedom of Information documents from within the Howard government itself, that PROVE Schapelle is innocent. Khoa Do please take the time to research http://www.expendable.tv where the PROOF is undeniable. Watch the Doco and then search for all the FOI docs. Schapelle is innocent, her father got his police certificate 3 months before he died, NO convictions at all, it is also posted on the site. This movie, from the book “Sins of a Father” is based on lies and propaganda. Why is this going ahead? WHY?

  7. Well said Alex Njoo? But you must be a part of the disgusting problem as well! for you to simply say the statements of rational thinking people are “unsubstantiated” and “Toxic” shows the world how low and unjust you actually are! The proof and facts are there for the world to see but it is people like you who would have to turn off your idiot box and put down your Murdock/Fairfax “newspapers” to see it! ANYONE, despite where they came from originally, who vilifies an obvious innocent person like you seem to like doing is UNAUSTRALIAN! But I’d be MORE than happy to “debate” this in person with you and your fellow sheeple anytime and place you care to name! Throwing barbs by way of messages like this is gutless to say the least and again VERY UNAUSTRALIAN! you may have to look that term up though???

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