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You are here: Home / Trailers / NEW: Australian feathery family film Storm Boy gets a trailer

NEW: Australian feathery family film Storm Boy gets a trailer

1st April 2020 by Sarah 2 Comments

Geoffrey Rush is the adult Michael Kingley, reminiscing about growing up on the beach in an empty Southern Australia where he raised a brood of tiny pelicans that had lost their mum.

Finn Little as Storm Boy, with his baby pelicans

Jai Courtney plays Michael’s reclusive father, Hideaway Tom, with Trevor Jamieson, one of Australia’s foremost indigenous actors, as Fingerbone Bill – who helps young Storm Boy (played by Finn Little) to save and raise the tiny birds, before eventually telling him they need to be free.

My 8 year old said after watching the trailer “I know that feeling Mum, you have to leave thing things you love”, which sounds a bit worthy for a child but then again he is under lockdown.

Pelican crossing joke incoming – young Michael (Finn Little) takes his pets to town

Here’s the synopsis:

When Michael Kingley, a retired businessman, sees images from his past that he can’t explain, he is forced to recall his childhood memories and how, as a boy, he rescued and raised an orphaned pelican, Mr Percival.

Storm Boy is out on digital in the UK on 6 April 2020, and on DVD later this year.

The film is based on the book of the same name by Australian authort Colin Thiele. It’s the second adaptation, following 1977’s award-winning movie directed by Henri Safran.

Filed Under: Trailers Tagged With: AAA, birds, family film, finn little, geoffrey rush, jai courtney, pelicans, storm boy, trevor jamieson

Comments

  1. Mike Moss says

    1st April 2020 at 3:38 PM

    Wow, Sarah! I’m intrigued to learn of this remake. I wonder if David Gulpilil, the aboriginal actor, is among the cast. He was in the original Storm Boy, as well as several of my other Australian favourites (Walkabout, Rabbit Proof Fence, The Tracker, Crocodile Dundee, etc.

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    • Sarah Cartland says

      1st April 2020 at 6:56 PM

      Hi Mike, I had never heard of the book until today let alone the original adaptation! According to David Gulpilil’s wiki page he is indeed in the remake, as Fingerbone Bill’s dad šŸ™‚

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