Sam Worthington and Jason Clarke to Star in ‘First Warrior,’ Warwick Thornton‘s Australian Aboriginal Resistance Epic (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comPatrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Warwick Thornton, one of Australia’s leading filmmakers, is confirmed to direct “First Warrior,” an epic about Aboriginal resistance fighter Pemulwuy.
The creative, on-screen and producing teams are equally stellar. Australia was colonized in the late 1700s. Pemulwuy, a man of the Bidjigal tribes — from the region that is today modern-day Sydney — led a 12-year resistance against British settlers moving into his people’s traditional lands.
The film’s core creators are an all-Indigenous team including Thornton, writer Jon Bell (“The Moogai,” “Cleverman”) and writer-producer Andrew Dillon (“Le Champion,” “Outliers”).
Dillon, who is a direct descendent of both the Dharug and Gomeroi people, will produce through his That’s-A-Wrap Productions company.
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