First Look: Ray Winstone And Temuera Morrison In Tracker
I’ve been hoping to seeTemuera Morrisonget a role where he could be as intense and amazing as he was inOnce Were Warriors.Star Warssure didn’t provide it; nor didCouples Retreat. CouldTrackerbe the one to do it? With Morrison working oppositeRay Winstonein a chase film set at the turn of the century in New Zealand, I’m hoping so.
Empirehas two new character portrait shots of Winstone and Morrison as the two leads of the film. Winstone plays Arjan, a South African guerrilla fighter and vet of the Second Anglo-Boer War, who accepts a bounty contract to hunt a Maori seaman named Kereama (Morrison). The latter is accused of killing a British soldier. AsEmpiredescribes it, “what follows is a cat and mouse pursuit through the varied landscape of NZ with both hunter and huntee testing their bushcraft and wits against that of the other.” With those two in the lead? Sounds fantastic. So we probably won’t see Morrison being as incredibly insane and fierce as he was in Once Were Warriors, but this might be a role with opportunities for action and depth.Screen Dailysays “the film will explore the courage and strength required to be a good man,” which brings to mind films likeThe Proposition(also featuring Winstone) andThe Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada. If it has shades of those movies, I’ll be quite intrigued. If it has shades of a film like Peckinpah’sPat Garrett and Billy the Kid, I’ll be downright thrilled.Trackeris shooting now. It is directed byIan Sharpand written by the lateNicolas van Pallandt, who succumbed to cancer two years ago. Sharp is also working on another van Pallandt script,Streetlight, a “dark, modern thriller set in the wet and deserted cityscapes of night time London,” starringRon PerlmanandJuliet Stevenson.
