Filming on ABC’s new offbeat legal drama The Great White, starring Hugo Weaving and directed by Mia Wasikowska and Nash Edgerton, will reportedly begin next year.
According to Variety, the six-part series is produced by See-Saw Films, and Weaving will play “a brilliant but disgraced lawyer who is forced to defend a death row inmate’s dog, setting him on an unexpected path to redemption and self-discovery.”
The drama, co-written by Ange Betzian and Nick Coyle, was one of several new acquisitions announced by Media One Lights at this year’s MIPCOM, the publication said.
This follows the acquisition of a majority stake in See-Saw Films earlier this year, with the European independent audiovisual content studio handling international distribution with participation from Entourage Ventures.
Wasikowska is currently filming Helium Pictures’ historical crime drama The Killings: Parrish Station in Sydney and is this year’s Australian Film, Television and Radio School artist-in-residence.
She made her writing and directing debut with Long, Clear View, part of the AACTA-nominated anthology film The Turning, followed by Afterbirth, part of the international short film anthology Madly, featuring innovative love stories, which premiered at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival.
Actress and filmmaker Edgerton previously co-starred with Miller Foulkes in her feature directorial debut, Judy and Punch, on which they served as actors and producers, respectively.
