Writing on Underbelly ‘prequel’ begins

Screenwriter Greg Haddrick has confirmed he has started work on the Underbelly ‘prequel.’

“There’s no great secret the second series will go backwards in time, as a sort of prequel,” he said.

“We’re hoping the second series will be just as big as the first.”

Haddrick’s comments follow confirmation by Nine in May that Nine would make another series of the hit crime drama.

“It would be almost criminal for us to let that team dissipate, there’s an amazing chemistry amongst these people,” Eddie McGuire told A Current Affair.

Haddrick, who also wrote dramas including MDA and The Society Murders, is cautiously optimistic about success at the Australian Writers’ Guild awards on August 15.

The show could win an open category, where the sole nominee is a surprise on the night.

“It’s been quite phenomenal, the success of Underbelly,” Haddrick told the North Shore Times.

Haddrick has also penned the TEN telemovie The Informant, about a man with extensive knowledge on international crime networks and money laundering who works with a government crime agency unsure about his background.

“You never really know if he is a goodie or a baddie or if he is going to turn on them,” said Haddrick, 47. “It’s good fun.”

Starring William McInnes the article indicates it will screen later this year. Last week however, The Informant was nowhere to be seen in TEN’s second-half slate announcements.

Source: North Shore Times