Cricket legend Shane Warne’s extraordinary life will be dramatised in a new miniseries.Nine Entertainment Co is in the early stages of signing on a production company for the telly series expected to air next year.
The show will celebrate the colourful life and career of the late spin bowler, who died earlier this month from a suspected heart attack at 52.Nine’s head of drama, Andy Ryan, said the network wanted to show the public what made Warne special.
He said: “Warnie’s life was so full of drama, like the man himself. This miniseries will be larger than life – entertaining, confronting, thought-provoking.“We want to explore what made Warnie so special, and why he had such a powerful effect on people.
He was a sporting legend, a national treasure, international kind of icon, but he was also a larrikin, a rogue and a charmer and a flawed man.“The national outpouring of grief over his passing had shown us – if we needed telling – just what a sort of impact he’s had on the national conversation.”Nine is one of at least four major broadcast networks, including Seven, ABC and Foxtel, preparing to air his state memorial service on March 30.
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