![]() ![]() It joins a growing slate of Australian-made stories on Netflix including Emmy-winning documentary “Puff: Wonders of the Reef,” fiction series “Wellmania” and “Heartbreak High,” and crime-drama film “The Stranger. ![]() “Run Rabbit Run” was filmed on-location in South Australia’s Riverland region. ![]() Netflix will upload it for multi-territory streaming in June. Umbrella and Maslow Entertainment are handling Australia and New Zealand distribution. The film had major production investment from XYZ and Screen Australia, in association with Film Victoria, the South Australian Film Corporation and Soundfirm. The script was written by acclaimed South Australian novelist Kent (“Devotion,” “Burial Rites”) from an original idea developed with Carver Films. Anna McLeish and Sarah Shaw of Carver produced. The switch kept things familiar though, as Reid has previously directed Snook in limited series “The Secret River.” In an earlier iteration of “Run Rabbit Run,” “Handmaid’s Tale” star Elizabeth Moss was set to play the lead role. Needless to say, poor Rabbit is the very antithesis of the enormously promising president of the class of 1950 at Shillington High School, the young man who went to Harvard on a scholarship. ![]() Reid was also Emmy-nominated for her work on “The Handmaid’s Tale.” Her production company Carver Films has developed horror films including “Relic” and the crime thriller “Snowtown,” and Reid has also directed Apple TV’s “The Shining Girls,” HBO’s “The Outsider” and Amazon’s “Upload.” ![]()
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