Maori Dialog Favored in Warner Bros’ New Zealand Series ‘Tangata Pai’
variety.comPatrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Production has begun on “Tangata Pai,” a Warner Bros. Discovery-backed drama that claims to be the first primetime series in which 30% of the dialog will be in the Maori language.
The eight-part series tells the stories of five people whose worlds collide when a bomb is detonated at a peaceful Māori protest against a license to mine a sacred site.
The completed show will play on New Zealand’s Three and Three Now channels. The series was created by writer, director and producer Kiel McNaughton (AMC’s “Good Grief,” film trilogy “Waru,” “Vai” and “Kāinga,” “The Legend of Baron To’a,” “Princess of Chaos”) who also serves as showrunner and director for the series.
Tangata Pai is produced by Kerry Warkia (“Good Grief,” “Waru,” “Vai,” “Kāinga”) under the production banner Brown Sugar Apple Grunt Productions, which she founded with McNaughton.
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