Qantas Award winner to star in REST FOR THE WICKED
MEDIA RELEASE 27 October 2010
Qantas Award winner
to star in REST FOR THE WICKED
Tony Barry is to star in
the upcoming detective comedy REST FOR THE WICKED, now
shooting until November 20 in Auckland.
Last month,
Barry won the Best Actor trophy in the Qantas New Zealand
Film Awards for his role as Ed in Gaylene Preston’s Home
By Christmas, which was selected for the World Cinema
Section of the London Film Festival. He has also been
nominated for best actor at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards
to be presented on December 2.
In REST FOR THE
WICKED Barry will play Murray, an ex-cop compelled to come
out of retirement for one last case when he finds out his
old nemesis, Frank (John Bach) is now in the Knightsbridge
Gardens Retirement Village. In order to catch his man,
Murray goes undercover, discovering a world of sex, drugs
and rocking chairs where life is lived and being old
doesn’t mean feeling past it.
Tony Barry and John
Bach worked together on Geoff Murphy’s iconic Goodbye Pork
Pie, still a New Zealand favourite. Bach recently starred as
Harry Sheridan in the TV One ratings hit This is Not My
Life.
REST FOR THE WICKED’s cast also includes
many of New Zealand’s greatest senior actors: Ian Mune,
Elizabeth McRae, Bruce Allpress, Irene Woods, Ilona Rodgers,
Teresa Woodham and Ken Blackburn.
Knightsbridge
Retirement Village is played by Remuera Gardens Retirement
Village, chosen for its picturesque setting.
Funded
by NZ Film Commission and private equity, REST FOR THE
WICKED is a first feature for director Simon Pattison, who
has a background in TV commercials and arts documentaries
(Valveman). He devised the concept with Nick Ward (Second
Hand Wedding). The script is by Bob Moore, advertising
copywriter and author.
Producer is Maile Daugherty
(line producer Insatiable Moon; VFX producer, Matariki, The
Tattooist); director of photography Jos Wheeler, who has an
extensive background in short film, music video and
documentary; production designer is Shayne Radford (Boy.
Rain of the Children); and editor is Paul Maxwell (Sione’s
Wedding, Rain).
REST FOR THE WICKED international
sales are handled by NZ Film and it has been picked up for
New Zealand distribution by Gordon Adam of Metropolis Film,
whose recent successful releases include Home By Christmas
and Second-Hand
Wedding.
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