Rush stars in reboot of the Australian classic opening in January. New allegations have presented its producers with a terrible conundrum
When Geoffrey Rush signed on play an ageing version of the titular character in the upcoming Storm Boy reboot, the producers would have been over the moon. They had just, after all, secured one of Australia’s most famous and acclaimed actors to lend his gravitas to a seminal Australian text, originating as a children’s book written by Colin Thiele in the 1960s.
Playing a grown-up Mike “Storm Boy” Kingsley, who narrates to his granddaughter a melancholic story about his childhood experiences living on an isolated coastline, it is a role custom-built for gravitas. The producers would have been more than happy - chuffed, even – to pay Rush a reported $500,000 for his participation.
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