Killer croc movie 'a tourism ad'
news.com.au
A MOVIE about a man-eating crocodile preying on tourists in the Northern Territory is like a $30 million advertisement for the Top End, says the film's director Greg Mclean.
Rogue, starring Michael Vartan, Radha Mitchell, Sam Worthington and John Jarratt, is about a bunch of visitors to the NT who go on a crocodile-viewing boat trip.
Mclean, who wrote and directed Wolf Creek, a thriller about a serial killer picking off travellers in the Australian outback, says Rogue shouldn't be off-putting for tourists.
"I think if you're getting to show this part of the world to the rest of the world, I don't see how it can't encourage people to look at it and go: 'This looks f**king amazing, this is fantastic'," Mclean said.
"Rogue is like a 90-minute, $30m commercial for the Northern Territory, that's what it is.
"Because you get the excitement, you get the fun of it."
Shooting around Katherine Gorge and Yellow Waters, Mclean said he filmed the best the NT has to offer, creating a kind of imaginary best-of national park on screen.
He said he was keen to show the beauty of the Australian outback on the big screen.
"I wanted to do a big adventure movie that was going to show Australia in all its glory," he said.
"There's so many movies made every year and you think, well one thing that I can do that other people can't do if they come from England or America or something, is we actually have unique stuff here, so we may as well actually make it really, really Australian," he said.
"You don't really have Australian horror films or Australian films of this kind, so why not set it in an Australian context?"
