Two years later, Dorrigo is leader of a camp of Australian PoWs deep in the dripping teak forests of Siam.
There he begins an affair with Keith’s much younger wife Amy, which, while only brief, marks him for the rest of his life. His embrace of the beauty and poetry in this and other works of Japanese literature, while examining the darkness of the historical moment, is a mark of how finely attuned Flanagan’s art is to the complexities, cosmic ironies and vast human frailties at play.ĭorrigo Evans, a young Australian surgeon waiting for deployment, pays a visit to his uncle Keith, who runs the King of Cornwall pub on the coast near Adelaide. The novel examines the plight of Australian PoWs at the hands of their Japanese captors while building the Burma Death Railway during the final years of the second world war. The haibun – a combination of prose and haiku – is one of the greats of classical Japanese literature and tells of his wandering from Edo (now Tokyo) into the country’s interior and the hardships he faced there.Īustralian novelist Richard Flanagan has taken not only Basho’s title for his 2014 Man Booker-longlisted novel, but has also imbued his work with some of the spare precision and Zen meditations of its predecessor. In the future, he will play Elvis in Sofia Coppola’s “Priscilla,” and will star with Rosamund Pike in Emerald Fennell’s “Saltburn.In the spring of 1689, the Japanese poet Matsuo Basho went on a journey that would form the basis of his most famous work: Oku no Hosomichi or The Narrow Road to the Deep North. He made his film debut in 2018 with the Australian film “Swinging Safari,” and starred in the Netflix rom-com trilogy “The Kissing Booth.” This year, he had a supporting role in the Hulu erotic thriller “Deep Water,” which starred Ben Affleck and Ana De Armas and featured a script co-written by “Euphoria” creator Sam Levinson. A streamer or network for the project has not yet been announced.Ī native Australian, Elordi is best known for his role in HBO’s popular teen drama series “Euphoria,” where he plays Nate, a high-school athlete with intense anger issues. The miniseries is one of the first projects from Curio, Sony Television Picture’s Australia-based banner, which opened this past February. The two executive-produce the series with Flanagan, Rachel Gardner, and Jo Porter, the managing director of Curio Pictures. The two have worked together on multiple films, including “Snowtown,” “True History of the Kelly Gang,” and “Nitram,” which won lead actor Caleb Landry Jones best actor at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival. The five-part series will be written by Grant and directed by Kurzel. Sofia Coppola Compares Priscilla Presley to Marie Antoinette Ahead of ‘Priscilla’ Biopic
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