A trailer has just dropped for a crazy and interesting looking indie western called True History of The Kelly Gang. The film comes from Australian filmmaker Justin Kurzel (The Snowtown Murders, Assassin Creed, Macbeth). The film offers us a re-envisioning of the legend of Australian bush-ranger Ned Kelly and his gang as they flee from the authorities during the 1870s.
The movie stars George MacKay as Ned Kelly, Essie Davis as his mother Ellen Kelly, along with Russell Crowe, Nicholas Hoult, and Charlie Hunnam. Here’s the synopsis:
Inspired by Peter Carey’s Man Booker prize winning novel, Justin Kurzel’s TRUE HISTORY OF THE KELLY GANG shatters the mythology of the notorious icon to reveal the essence behind the life of Ned Kelly and force a country to stare back into the ashes of its brutal past. Spanning the younger years of Ned’s life to the time leading up to his death, the film explores the blurred boundaries between what is bad and what is good, and the motivations for the demise of its hero. Youth and tragedy collide in the Kelly Gang, and at the beating heart of this tale is the fractured and powerful love story between a mother and a son.
This looks like a wild western worth checking out! The movie is set to be released in the UK starting in February 2020. There’s no US release date yet. Check out the trailer!