Exclusive: Classic New Zealand novel Once Were Warriors, memorably adapted for film by Lee Tamahori in 1994, is getting a TV adaptation from Wheel Of Time exec Rick Selvage and the novel’s author Alan Duff.
A companion novel penned by Duff called Once Were Warriors: Generations is also being lined up.
Duff is teaming with Onphaya’s Selvage and the latter’s producing partner, Peta Johnson, who will both serve as executive producers.
In the original novel and film a family descended from Māori warriors is bedeviled by a violent father and the societal problems of being treated as outcasts.
Once Were Warriors: Generations will bring the Heke family forward 30 years to the present day with a new generation of characters and stories.
According to producers, “political aspirations, financial schemes, cultural clashes, and a search for redemption are at the core of this series filtered through the distinctive Māori culture...
A companion novel penned by Duff called Once Were Warriors: Generations is also being lined up.
Duff is teaming with Onphaya’s Selvage and the latter’s producing partner, Peta Johnson, who will both serve as executive producers.
In the original novel and film a family descended from Māori warriors is bedeviled by a violent father and the societal problems of being treated as outcasts.
Once Were Warriors: Generations will bring the Heke family forward 30 years to the present day with a new generation of characters and stories.
According to producers, “political aspirations, financial schemes, cultural clashes, and a search for redemption are at the core of this series filtered through the distinctive Māori culture...
- 9/20/2023
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
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