Lee Tamahori’s iconic 1994 film “Once Were Warriors,” an adaptation of the novel by Alan Duff, is getting a TV series follow-up.
“Once Were Warriors: Generations,” the series will bring the Heke family forward thirty years to the present day with a new generation of characters.
The original novel and film followed a family descended from Māori warriors who must deal with living in poverty under a violent father and being treated as outcasts by society.
Temuera Morrison, Cliff Curtis and Rena Owen starred in the film, which became the highest-grossing film of all-time in New Zealand and has won numerous awards.
The producers say “political aspirations, financial schemes, cultural clashes, and a search for redemption are at the core of this series filtered through the distinctive Māori culture and the Heke family’s unforgiving past.”
Rick Selvage (“The Wheel of Time”) executive produces alongside Peta Johnson and Duff who will write a companion novel using the same title. Both the new novel and series will be set in Auckland and Rotorua in New Zealand.
Source: Deadline
