The Daily Telegraph
March 9, 2006
Peace adds up / It's all a croc
By Michael Bodey
Thanks to Rosemary for the article!
Peace adds up
After being snubbed by AFI Award voters for his performance in Wolf Creek, John Jarratt (pictured) will film an ad promoting the awards. Jarratt told BodeyLine he was "smoking the peace pipe" with AFI management this week.
"I've been calling them the Dendy Awards because they throw them at the art house films, not at strong commercial films like Wolf Creek," Jarratt laughs. As Wolf Creek hit the DVD shelves last week, Jarratt also returned from a successful jaunt to the US, where his wife Cody's film, Crossing The Line, was apparently well received. And Jarratt says that his next job will come from "possibly Tarantino".
"Put it this way, I'm not allowed to say anything and I don't want to get my a... kicked." Jarratt has also just completed filming Rogue, McLean's follow-up to Wolf Creek.
"Basically it's a Godzilla film, with a great crocodile monster that grows to 25ft (7.6m) and chomps up tourists," Jarratt says. With a budget of $25 million, the film, starring Radha Mitchell, Michael Vartan and Sam Worthington, is the biggest Aussie film since Moulin Rouge. "But in world terms it's not much money at all," Jarratt says. "It's chicken s ... for the kind of movie Greg has made."
It's all a croc
And while on big croc movies, another Aussie, Dominic Purcell (pictured below), will feature in one. The Prison Break star has signed to appear opposite Orlando Jones in Primeval, which films in South Africa in April. They too are on the tail of a legendary 25ft (7.6m) crocodile.
The Disney project will be directed by Smallville's Michael Katleman.
Meanwhile, Rogue director Greg McLean told BodeyLine his own croc pic will likely be released in the first quarter of 2007 after "20 months of post-production". While a mechanical croc was used for parts of the shoot, Rogue's villain will be mostly computer-generated.
© Nationwide News 2006
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