The bestselling writer says he was offered 'good money' to turn his novel The Messenger into a film or TV series in the US. But he decided it should be made in Australia.
abc.net.au/news/markus-zusak-knocked-back-hollywood-for-the-messenger-tv-series/102386438Australian author Markus Zusak received multiple offers from Hollywood to turn his novel The Messenger into a film or TV series in the US.
"But I just started to feel like, especially that first chapter of the book – these four friends on the floor in the bank, one of them yells out to the bank robber to hurry up – to me there was a real Australian sensibility in that. Zusak was an executive producer on the TV series but says: "I really didn't do that much apart from writing the book that was the source material.
"Across the eight episodes we get to know more of the characters more deeply. They're all more complex than they are in the book," Zusak says."That was why I thought, yeah, this is a better achievement than the book is. And I think it's easier for me to say that with 20 years of distance between myself and the book coming out.
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