Channel 10 has commissioned a new version of the Australian movie classic Wake in Fright, writes News.au.
Kenneth Cook’s classic novel has already spawned the acclaimed 1971 film starring Donald Pleasance, Chips Rafferty, Jack Thompson, John Meillon and Gary Bond.
Ten’s remake will be a two-part presentation and comes just days after Foxtel announced it is making a new adaptation of Peter Weir’s seventies classic Picnic at Hanging Rock.
Wake in Fright tells the story of John Grant, a young schoolteacher who is marooned in the small outback mining town of Bundanyabba.