Australian manager Peter Weir ’s Picnic at Hanging Rock — about a group of Victorian schoolgirl who inexplicably fly during a Valentine ’s twenty-four hours outing in 1900 — has clear both a cult observe and critical esteem in the years since its 1975 release . Now the woolgathering , eery story is mother young living as a six - part idiot box miniseries .
Details are scant so far beyond the proclamation made by spreader Foxtel , per Variety :
“ The 1975 film which was polar in establish the modern Australian moving-picture show industry . This series , based on the classic novel , will take witness on a new and in depth journey into this incredibly iconic Australian story , ” said Foxtel head of drama , Penny Win .
There ’s a match , of course : the six - part show is being made for Australian boob tube . But that does n’t signify audiences in other part of the world wo n’t get to see it . Jane Campion ’s New Zealand mystery miniseries Top of the Lake made its means to America , as did the Aussie repugnance series Wolf Creek , based on the motion-picture show of the same name — and asterisk John Jarratt , who also happens to be in the original Picnic at Hanging Rock .
[ ColliderviaVariety ]
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