Alan Duff’s best-selling 1990 novel, Once Were Warriors, is getting a television adaptation almost three decades after the film adaptation was released in 1994. The author himself will be collaborating with executive producer Rick Selvage to bring the novel to your TV screens.
According to producers, the television adaptation will explore “political aspirations, financial schemes, cultural clashes, and a search for redemption” that is filtered through “the distinctive Māori culture and the Heke family’s unforgiving past.” They added, “It will be set against the backdrop of New Zealand’s multicultural society and the universal socio-economic tensions of the present day.”
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