Russell Crowe's Skinhead Drama ROMPER STOMPER is Getting a TV Series
Russell Crowe got his big break in 1992 in a crazy, violent, and controversial Australian skinhead indie film called Romper Stomper. I was blown away by this movie when I first saw it and Crowe gave such an amazing terrifying performance. He played a neo-Nazi skinhead in the film named Hando. If you've never seen this movie before, it's definitely worth checking out.
According to THR, the film's creator Geoffrey Wright is now adapting his movie into a limited run TV series. It seems like the kind of story that would work great for series. Here's a description of what the series will entail:
The high stakes crime drama/political thriller explores the human face of extremism, picking up on the prescient themes and story of Wright’s classic film, following a new generation of the activist right, its anti-fascist counterparts and the multicultural fabric of a country that they threaten to tear apart.
The show is being planned as a six-episode series and it will premiere on the Australian streaming service Stan. Chief content officer of Stan, Nick Forward, had this to say in a statement:
“With such an extraordinary creative team, Romper Stomper will be as provocative now as the film was in 1992, examining at a personal level the hatred, fear, vengeance and politics hidden in plain sight all around us. Stan is privileged to bring Geoffrey’s prodigious talents to bear on a contemporary exploration of the themes his film tackled so brilliantly.”
Wright will write the series along with New Zealand director James Napier Robertson, author, poet and rapper Omar Musa and award-winning journalist and author Malcolm Knox. It will be directed by Daina Reid (Never Tear Us Apart: The Untold Story of INXS), Wright, and Robertson.
Jacqueline Mackenzie and Dan Wyllie are set to reprise their roles from the original film. It will also star David Wenham, Lachy Hulme and newcomer Toby Wallace. Production for the series starts this week and it's scheduled to be released sometime in 2018.