Jellicoe Road film given funding

[Neeky78]

Firstly, apologies for my absence. Stuff just gets busy!
DD has had new headshots done, I've updated her showreel and she is signed with an agency, so we're just waiting on some opportunities to come up now!

Ok, back on topic.

GOSSIP!

Melina Marchetta is a very successful and critically acclaimed Australian author. For years her brilliant YA novel On the Jellicoe Road has been touted as her next movie adaptation and finally this week it got funding from Screen Australia which means it's 99% on the way to being made.
Her previous film adaptation for Looking for Alibrandi was sensational, won awards and launched several acting careers here in Oz. She wrote the screen play for it and has written the one for Jellicoe Road too.
Info on Alibrandi - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Looking_fo ... ndi_(film)

The interesting thing about this though, is it is being marketed to an international audience and the word is, they want to cast internationally. I'm not sure what that means in terms of the story because it is set in the Australian countryside and Sydney. So it either means the leads will have to do an Australian accent (which never works well) or they will reset the book, which is very strange.

Anywayz, here are 2 links with information about the funding approval (not a lot from Screen Australia, but it's significant in terms of green-lighting. Token amount.) and Melina explaining that it will be an international film.

http://www.screenaustralia.gov.au/news_ ... opment.pdf

http://www.hypable.com/2013/03/27/on-th ... marchetta/

So keep an ear out/eye out for casting in the next few months as this will be a quality production and is sure to be beautiful.

[Neeky78]

I forgot to add that On the Jellicoe Road (in US and maybe UK it's just called Jellicoe Road) is one of my favourite books.
It is stunning and I was an emotional wreck for a week after reading it. Beautiful, tragic and beautiful again.
I highly recommend reading it.
It starts off disjointed and hard to follow but it then starts putting all the pieces together and blows your mind!