‘Desert King,’ ‘The Survivors’ Series Under Way as Netflix Expands Australia Production Slate
variety.comPatrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Three years into its local production effort in Australia and New Zealand, Netflix has greenlighted two new series, one feature film and one full-length documentary from Australia.
These are in addition to previously announced renewals of teen series “Heartbreak High” and “Surviving Summer” and the go-ahead for prestige book-to-series adaptation “Boy Swallows Universe” and kids animation “Eddie’s Lil Homies.” Set in the Australian Outback, epic succession tale “Desert King” revolves around billionaire miners, traditional owners, cowboys and desert gangsters fighting over the world’s biggest cattle station the size of Wales.
It’s a hot, dusty, sexy Outback Western with guns and helicopters. It is directed by Greg McLean and created by Tim Lee and Ben Davies, with production by Paul Ranford.
The series is a co-production between Easy Tiger and Ronde. “We’re thrilled to have assembled an incredible creative team, on and off screen, to do justice to the rarely-seen world, characters and stories of the Top End—a place where timeless meets modern, and where landscape is life and livelihood, but also mortal danger,” said Davies and Gibson, who executive produce along with Ian Collie. “The Survivors” series is an ambition crime -mystery adaptation of the novel of the same title by Australian writer Jane Harper.
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