Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefDirector Robert Connolly (“Balibo”) and star Eric Bana (“Hanna,” “Hulk), both currently riding high at the Australian box office with “The Dry,” will reunite on “Blueback,” a film billed as a family-friendly, ecologically activist celebration of the natural world.Connolly has been developing the project for more than two decades.
At one stage it was envisaged that actor-director Rowan Woods (“The Boys”) would direct the adaptation.The film is now moving into production with filming set in two of the remotest places on the continent: Bremer Bay and Ningaloo Reef, in West Australia.
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