Person who once told Rebel Wilson to fuck off but is probably just really sorry about that now you guys Russell Crowe is set to make his directorial debut in a new Australian period drama called The Water Diviner. Rusty, who was linked last year to helming a Bill Hicks biopic and in 2011 to a film adaptation of crime novelist James Ellroy’s 77, will make his directorial debut proper in a war focused period drama set in Australia and in Gallipoli in 1919.
The film, penned by Andrew Knight (Rake, SeaChange, Jack Irish) and Andrew Anastasios, will shoot in both countries this year and follows an Australian father who
travels to Turkey in search of two sons missing since the battle of Gallipoli, the site of the first significant casualties of the Australian armed forces in World War I. The film will be produced by Troy Lum and Andrew Mason
for Hopscotch Features and by Keith Rodger for Fear Of God Films.
Is is our hope that we will not not be entertained.
Via Deadline
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