World News – AU – People are planning to boycott a movie about the origins of Port Arthur Gunman

Streaming service Stan has revealed plans for a movie that delves deep into Australia’s worst mass shooter.

Martin Bryant carried out the Port Arthur massacre in Tasmania in 1996, slaughtering 35 people and wounding 23 others with an AR-10 rifle.

While Stan didn’t mention Bryant by name, the upcoming movie is called NITRAM, which is Martin Backwards.

The service described the project as « a scripted fiction film that explores the events that led to one of the darkest chapters in Australian history to understand why and how these atrocities occurred ». .

Justin Kurzel, director of True History the Kelly Gang and Snowtown, has been selected to direct the film, and Shaun Grant will write the script.

The team has already cast Caleb Landry Jones (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri), Essie Davis (True Story of the Kelly Gang) and Anthony LaPaglia (Lantana). .

Nick Forward, Stan’s Chief Content Officer, said in a statement, « Stan is excited to be working with Justin Kurzel and Shaun Grant again and we have every confidence in the creative vision and ability of the NITRAM team to do the Treat the subject of the film with sensitivity and respect. «  »

While there will be some who would like to see a movie about the rise of Australia’s worst mass murderer, opinion is divided on social media. Some have taken to Twitter to protest the project, even from a survivor of the Port Arthur massacre.

undefinedundefinedJustin Woolley, who was 12 years old when Martin Bryant dumped rounds in the city’s former prison colony, wrote: « As a survivor of the Port Arthur massacre, I want to say that this is possible and let me be clear F ** k the f ** k out.

« Our family was incredibly lucky because we all left. I am not interested in exploring this dark chapter in Australian history or studying a man who is driven to do it. « 

One said, « The Port Arthur massacre is not entertainment. And that these filmmakers want to benefit from it is grotesque. Nobody needs to understand Martin Bryant or relive what happened. This man ruined so many lives. We all live with it today. This movie must be stopped. «  »

Another added: « Nobody goes to this movie – an attempt to capitalize on the Port Arthur massacre in which a mad maniac shot people, including little girls, to death. The prison authorities never allowed interviews or photos of him. A film will bring the horror back to the related victims. boycott. «  »

The Sydney Morning Herald says the film will not investigate the actual mass shootings and that filming will take place in Victoria because of concerns that it may be too sensitive to do in Tasmania.

The film is slated to appear on Stan and in theaters next year on April 25. Anniversary of the mass shooting.

Bryant is currently serving 35 life sentences and 25 years on the remaining 36 charges of five other offenses without parole in Hobart Risdon Prison, where he is in permanent solitary confinement.

Stewart Perrie is a trending journalist at LADbible. His first job was as a newscaster and journalist for the award-winning Macquarie Radio in Sydney. He was solely responsible for the content, which was broadcast on multiple channels across Australia when the MH17, Germanwings and AirAsia disasters struck. Stewart has covered the conflict in Syria for LADbible, interviewed a frontline doctor and contributed to the hugely successful UOKM8 campaign.

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