Published: May 20, 2019
Writer Erik Jensen and film-maker Thomas M Wright fought ‘tooth and nail’ on the adaptation – and called in Christos Tsiolkas to mediate
Among the many accomplishments of the director Thomas M. Wright’s riveting feature film debut, Acute Misfortune, is the rare sight of a real-life Australian journalist being portrayed on screen.
The film is an adaptation of Erik Jensen’s biography of the artist Adam Cullen, who the author – formerly a journalist for the Sydney Morning Herald, then the editor of the Saturday Paper, and now editor-in-chief of its publisher, Schwartz Media – was first assigned to write about when he was 19.
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