We Frontier Partisans can kick in to the coffers of famed Australian Bushranger Ned Kelly — and we won’t even have a revolver shoved in our face. The creative team that brought The Legend of Ben Hall to life has launched an audacious Kickstarter campaign to bring the true story of the most famous Bushranger of them all to screen.
Reckon I’ll kick.
I still haven’t had an opportunity to see The Legend of Ben Hall. Hoping for DVD or to see it show up on Netflix or something. In any case, I love the passion these guys bring to telling a historical frontier tale, and I’d support ’em even if I never saw the film. Lucky for me, a modest $25 will guarantee me a DVD, so I can’t lose. Wish I could do more.
The Legend of Ned Kelly will be a gritty, cinematic and spectacular motion picture depicting the life of Edward ‘Ned’ Kelly, from his troubled childhood to his time riding with bushranger Harry Power; from his 3-year imprisonment to his eventual rise to a bushranger and the country’s most wanted outlaw, culminating in the infamous showdown at Glenrowan.
Filled with heart-wrenching drama, heart-pounding action sequences, warm humour, powerful performances, breath-taking cinematography and stirring music, The Legend of Ned Kelly will finally give audiences what they have been demanding for decades — an accurate depiction of our most infamous Australian legend.
We want to create a world that you can smell and taste; characters you fall in love with and care about. This will be a tantalising portrait of a complex and conflicted man whose legacy still endures and whose name has become a cultural icon. The Legend of Ned Kelly will be an engrossing Australian Western that sheds light on this dark chapter of colonial history.
Good luck to ye, lads!
Black Tyrone says
Jim, I did a Master’s Seminar paper on the Transportation of Convicts to Australia at Fordham University . Ned Kelly of course was a product of this English policy of Transportation. Has any one read the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey? A good and rewarding novel. An award winner too. Trying to stay in the conversation… Black Tyrone.
ps anyone with any interest in my nome de plume should read Kipling and in particular Botha Thone as well as Sgt Mulvaney in Soldier’s Three.
JimC says
Haven’t read the Carey novel. Glad to hear it’s worthy.
Black Tyrone says
Thanks for the kick start site!
Thom Eley says
Jim,
What is the Kickstart contact for this?
JimC says
Click on link at bottom of the piece.
wayne says
Peter Carey’s True History of the Kelly Gang is indeed an excellent read. It’s that wonderful blend of quality literature and frontier adventure that we all search for. He won the Booker prize for another one of his books.
lane batot says
I liked both the earlier Ned Kelly movies I’ve seen(got ’em both on DVD!), the 1st with Mick Jagger, of all people, in the title role(and, by gosh, he did a good job,I think!), the other with Heath Ledger. I have no problems with yet another version, especially claiming to be “more accurate”! SO MUCH fascinating Bushranger history out there, just waiting for a script writer to come along!