The Walt Disney Company of Australia and New Zealand on Tuesday revealed a list of nine new original Australian films and series. This represents the company’s largest wave of local content commissions and Disney+ acquisitions and will launch on the platform in 2022-23.
The list includes three script-drama series: “The Clearing”, “The Artful Dodger” and “Last Days of the Space Age”; Four documentary series, “Matildas: The World at Our Feet”, “Shipwreck Fishermen in Australia”, “Chasing the Waves”, “Fear: The Inside Story of the AFLW”; Two public real-life and lifestyle entertainment series “Donna Hey Christmas” and a competition format series “What’s Your Game Story?”
“It was important for us to have this metric to share so we could prove to the market that we are really serious about this,” said Kylie Watson Wheeler, Senior Vice President and Managing Director of The Walt Disney Company in Australia and New Zealand. diverse.
She confirmed that Disney is working on 15 more local titles. “Our second wave is already starting to take shape with several shows including original concepts from New Zealand. The opportunities are endless especially in the comedy, comedy and youthful romance that audiences love.”
Several shows in the first wave on Tuesday will expand Disney+’s adult-focused general Star entertainment offering. The psychological drama, The Clearing, is an eight-part series based on the JP Pomare novel inspired by a true Australian cult. It stars Australian actors Theresa Palmer, Miranda Otto, and Guy Pearce.
“The Artful Dodger,” a co-production with Sony and produced by Beach Road Pictures and Curio Pictures (formerly Playmaker Media), takes an Australian twist on Charles Dickens’ novel “Oliver Twist,” as Fagin and Artful Dodger are transported to Australia in the 1850s. . The staff has not yet been announced.
“Last Days of the Space Age” is an eight-part drama set in 1979 Western Australia when a massive strike threatens to plunge the region into darkness, while the region hosts a Miss Universe contest and the US space station, Skylab, crashes to Earth. Starring Jesse Spencer (“Chicago Fire”, “House”), Radha Mitchell (“Man on Fire”, “Olympus Has Fallen”), and Deborah Millman (“The Sapphires”, “Offspring”).
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