FremantleMedia developing drama on “iconic Australian story”
A new drama series in development is already getting international pre-sale interest.
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FremantleMedia is developing an “iconic Australian story” as a new scripted drama and already getting international pre-sale interest.
Sarah Doole, international head of drama, has given a MIPCOM interview to Hollywood Reporter.
She was asked “What’s next on the agenda?”
“The next territory I’m really excited about it Australia, because I think we’ve got some fantastic drama coming out of there already. We make Wentworth, which has sold to 89 countries. And the brilliant thing is that we remade it ourselves in Germany and Italy,” she replied.
“To have that coming through the family is really exciting. Jo Porter, who runs our Australian team, has one project in particular that I’m really excited about. It’s a really iconic Australian story that we are starting pre-sales at MIPCOM and I think it’s very co-produceable. We’ve already had interest even though we haven’t finished writing the bible on it.
“Australia is ripe because of its heritage of great writers, almost all of the Australian acting talent is already in Hollywood, and also great directors coming out of Australia. If we can marry all of these things and bring them home, I think we can then tell a story that resonates around the world.”
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4 Responses
“An iconic Australian story?” Surely not. Hasn’t anybody told them how badly Gallipoli flopped earlier this year?
There was a time when we had a “heritage of great writers” unfortunately somewhere along that heritage journey the wheels fell off and good Aussie writers disappeared, there a but a few, who, today could be classified “great writers”
An iconic Australian story, huh? Can’t wait for Waltzing Bad!
Good to know there is more “good” Aussie drama coming, currently lacks detail but perhaps so no one else steals the Premise.