New Trailer For The Australian Bandit Film TRUE HISTORY OF THE KELLY GANG with George MacKay and Russell Crowe
A new trailer has been shared for the upcoming Australian bandit western titled True History of The Kelly Gang. The film offers us a re-envisioning of the legend of Australian bush-ranger Ned Kelly and his gang as they flee from the authorities during the 1870s. This looks like the kind of wild and crazy film that I might enjoy.
The film comes from Australian filmmaker Justin Kurzel (The Snowtown Murders, Assassin Creed, Macbeth), and it’s a very stylistic film loaded with a lot of energy. It stars George MacKay (1917) as Ned Kelly, Essie Davis as his mother, Ellen Kelly, along with Russell Crowe, Nicholas Hoult, and Charlie Hunnam. Here’s the synopsis:
Inspired by Peter Carey’s Man Booker prize winning novel, Justin Kurzel’s TRUE HISTORY OF THE KELLY GANG shatters the mythology of the notorious icon to reveal the essence behind the life of Ned Kelly and force a country to stare back into the ashes of its brutal past. Spanning the younger years of Ned’s life to the time leading up to his death, the film explores the blurred boundaries between what is bad and what is good, and the motivations for the demise of its hero. Youth and tragedy collide in the Kelly Gang, and at the beating heart of this tale is the fractured and powerful love story between a mother and a son.
True History of the Kelly Gang opens on April 24 in theaters and on May 8 on VOD.