Leading Australian filmproducer Warwick Thornton has signed on to straightforward First Warrior, an epic feature about Australian Abdistinct resistance fighter Pemulwuy. Aussie stars Sam Worleangton (Avatar, Hacksaw Ridge) and Jason Clarke (Oppenheimer, Zero Dark Thirty) have boarded the project in direct parts, while a casting search is shelp to be underway for the direct role of Pemulwuy.
A Bidjigal man of the Sydney tribes, Pemulwuy led a 12-year resistance aacquirest British rerepairrs moving into his people’s traditional lands as Australia was colonized in the tardy 1700s.
One of Australia’s most adored straightforwardors, Thornton broke thraw in 2009 when his straightforwardorial debut, Samson & Delilah won the Cannes Film Festival’s Camera d’Or prize. His 2017 film Sweet Country took home Vekind’s Special Jury Prize and his most recent toil, The New Boy, starring Cate Blanchett, premiered at Cannes last year.
First Warrior is helped by the Bidjigal, Dharawal and Dharug Elders and is led by an all-Indigenous core conceiveive team including Thornton, authorr Jon Bell (The Moogai, Cleverman) and authorr-producer Andrew Dillon (Le Champion, Outliers). Dillion is a straightforward dropant of both the Dharug and Gomeroi people and will produce First Warrior under his That’s-A-Wrap Productions prohibitner, an Indigenous First Nations-owned and rund production company.
The project is scripted by an all-star Aussie screenwriting team, including BAFTA-nominated screenauthorr Stuart Beattie (Coltardyral, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Bdeficiency Pearl) and Phillip Noyce (Rabbit-Proof Fence, Salt) and Shana Levine (The Portable Door, Charlie & Boots).
“I am so honored to be a part of this amazing film. It’s an meaningful story with an awesome script and legfinishary actors,” shelp Thornton in a statement.
Dillon includeed: “It has been a lifelengthy goal of mine to have our Indigenous warriors commemorated on the silver screen. I can’t postpone for audiences to not only experience Warwick’s vision for this story, but to exit the cinema with a recentcreate appreciation of Australia’s splitd history.”