FremantleMedia Australia’s re-imagining of 'Picnic at Hanging Rock' has landed another key sale, this time to France, after Amazon Prime Video bought the US rights.
After directing two episodes of Foxtel/FremantleMedia Australia’s 'Picnic at Hanging Rock', Michael Rymer is moving into the director’s chair for 'Andorra'.
"COVID-19 has really battered our industry and many industries all over the world, so there is no work at the moment except the work one can safely generate on one's own."
The film, based on David Williamson's play of the same name, features a stellar cast
Rymer describes 'Tremula', in which a group of international astronauts go missing on a Mars training simulation in the middle of the Australian desert, as "The Martian meets Picnic at Hanging Rock".
FremantleMedia’s six-parter begins shooting later this month. Amanda Brotchie ('Agony, 'This is Littleton', 'Lowdown') will direct alongside the previously announced Michael Rymer and Canadian Larysa Kondracki.
When Anna McGahan was offered the role of mathematics teacher Miss Greta McGraw in 'Picnic at Hanging Rock', she was informed the series was a re-imagining of the 1967 Joan Lindsay novel, which in turn inspired Peter Weir’s seminal 1975 movie.
Emma Booth and Ewen Leslie are playing detectives and former lovers who investigate the brutal murder of an unidentified woman in 'The Gloaming'.