Neon has taken the North American rights to Kitty Green's 'The Royal Hotel', due to star Julia Garner, Jessica Henwick and Hugo Weaving.
At a remote pub, on a dusty highway between Australia’s most isolated city and its largest gold pit, the arrival every three months of a new pair of foreign backpackers to work the bar is a keenly anticipated event.
Toby Wallace will star alongside Julia Garner, Jessica Henwick and Hugo Weaving in Kitty Green thriller 'The Royal Hotel', with production now underway in South Australia.
Critics have hailed Kitty Green's 'The Royal Hotel' as an "even deeper" and "pulpier and more explosive" look at toxic masculinity than her 2019 #MeToo thriller 'The Assistant', with many drawing comparisons between the film and Ted Kotcheff's 1971 classic 'Wake in Fright'.
Director Pete Gleeson first came across Coolgardie’s Denver City Hotel – the setting of doco 'Hotel Coolgardie' – around 15 years ago on a visit to the remote West Australian mining town.