{"id":7427,"date":"2009-04-16T10:00:09","date_gmt":"2009-04-16T17:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=7427"},"modified":"2009-04-16T10:00:14","modified_gmt":"2009-04-16T17:00:14","slug":"bra-boys-to-be-crowes-directorial-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=7427","title":{"rendered":"Bra Boys To Be Crowe&#8217;s Directorial Debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/15262423jpg.jpeg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/15262423jpg.jpeg','popup','width=400,height=225,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/15262423-tm.jpg\" height=\"112\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"15262423.Jpg\" \/><\/a><strong>Russel Crowe<\/strong> says that work on the <strong>Bra Boys<\/strong> film that may be his feature directorial debut is progressing nicely, according to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/news.sky.com\/skynews\/Home\/Showbiz-News\/Russell-Crowes-Directorial-Debut-Is-It-New-Movie-About-Australian-Surfer-Gang\/Article\/200904315262451?lpos=Showbiz_News_Second_Home_Page_Article_Teaser_Region_5&amp;lid=ARTICLE_15262451_Russell_Crowes_Directorial_Debut%3A_Is_It_New_Movie_About_Australian_Surfer_Gang\" target=\"_blank\">Sky News<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We are on our third different take on the story, probably on our second draft of our third take,&#8221; he said.<br \/>\n&#8220;We approached it in one way and it worked and encapsulated it nicely but it left too many things on the table so we&#8217;ve tried it a second way and had the same result. . . . We&#8217;re now in a place where we&#8217;re trying it a third way and it&#8217;s a little more satisfying in terms of the punch of the overall film.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The film is not based on the documentary, but on the best-selling book <strong>My Brothers Keeper<\/strong>, by investigative reporters <strong>Charles Miranda<\/strong> and <strong>Angelea Kamper<\/strong> and follows the story of &#8220;standover man&#8221; Anthony Hines, his meeting with infamous Sydney surfing gang &#8216;the Bra Boys&#8217;, and his killing. According to Russel, the film will not start Mark Wahlberg and instead will feature Australian actors.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;This is a great Australian story and it belongs to the Australian film industry and it&#8217;s all well and good to finance it from overseas because film is an international medium but we&#8217;ve got great actors in our country.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/news.sky.com\/skynews\/Home\/Showbiz-News\/Russell-Crowes-Directorial-Debut-Is-It-New-Movie-About-Australian-Surfer-Gang\/Article\/200904315262451?lpos=Showbiz_News_Second_Home_Page_Article_Teaser_Region_5&amp;lid=ARTICLE_15262451_Russell_Crowes_Directorial_Debut%3A_Is_It_New_Movie_About_Australian_Surfer_Gang\" target=\"_blank\">Sky News<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russel Crowe says that work on the Bra Boys film that may be his feature directorial debut is progressing nicely, according to Sky News. &#8220;We are on our third different take on the story, probably on our second draft of our third take,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We approached it in one way and it worked and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,9,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7427"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7427"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7428,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7427\/revisions\/7428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}