But when he breaks into Greve's apartment, he finds more than just the painting. At an art opening one night he meets Clas Greve, who is not only the perfect candidate for a major CEO job, but also, perhaps, the answer to his financial woes: Greve just so happens to mention that he owns a priceless Peter Paul Rubens painting that's been lost since World War II-and Roger Brown just so happens to dabble in art theft. But one career simply can't support his luxurious lifestyle and his wife's fledgling art gallery. Alexander Woo ( True Blood) will write the pilot and executive produce with HBO's Carolyn Strauss among others.įor those who don't know what Headhunters is, here's an English language trailer for the original film:Īnd here's the book description from Amazon: Roger Brown is a corporate headhunter, and he's a master of his profession. Lionsgate then purchased Summit, along with the rights, and they've now decided HBO is a better place for the story than the big screen.ĭeadline broke the news of this transition. The English remake rights to that film were purchased by Summit. Originally the property was a popular Norwegian novel by Jo Nesbø, which was then adapted into that excellent 2011 film by Morten Tyldum.
The Norwegian film Headhunters, which had been slated for an English language remake with Mark Wahlberg circling, is now being developed into an HBO series. Now, something even rarer and more exciting is happening.
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The novel to miniseries transition, without a movie adaptation, can be incredibly successful ( Game of Thrones) or incredibly polarizing ( Under the Dome) and isn't as frequently done as the novel-to-movie shift.
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Rating NotesĬonfessions of a Headhunter is based on a short story of Koori man Archie Weller.When a popular book or property is announced for a movie, the first reaction of many fans is "They should make it a TV series instead." Television gives complex stories time to develop, where movies sometimes rush though popular stories to meet a specific run time. Matt Potter Awards Winner of Cinema Nova Award of the Australian Film Institute for Best Short Fiction Film. They are taking off the heads of every bronze colonial statue they find, and finally melt them down to create a sculpture of an Aboriginal mother and her children looking out to sea at Botany Bay, where Captain Cook landed.īased on Archie Weller's story, this short drama speaks about the conflict between the Aboriginal people of the Perth area and colonial culture. In the film, two Noongar men – Frank and Vinnie – travel across the country and seek revenge for the repeated beheading of the statue of their ancestor warrior Yagan. The 1997 beheading inspired Aboriginal writer Archie Weller to write a short story which Sally Riley turned into Confessions of a Headhunter. It was repaired, but later beheaded again. In 1997, his head was repatriated to Australia soon after, a vandal used an angle grinder to behead the statue. In Perth, there is a bronze statue of the Noongar resistance fighter Yagan, whose head was sent to England after he was killed by white settlers, in 1833.