Turkey Shoot
( dir. Jon Hewitt
)
Australia
:
F. G. Film Productions
Thatcher Productions
,
2014
8133324
2014
single work
film/TV
science fiction
fantasy
horror
'TURKEY SHOOT is a smash-hit live reality show combining stalk and chase adventure with the ultimate twist. If you win you can have whatever your heart desires – but lose – you die. Disgraced ex-Navy Seal Rich Tyler attempts to clear his name by becoming the next contestant – number #777 in the world’s highest rating reality show.'
Source: Screen Australia. (Sighted: 3/12/2014)
Turkey Shoot is considered an international work by AustLit because it has American script-writers and because its Australian production (and vaguely Australian setting) is driven by specific tax breaks.
Note also Brian Trenchard-Smith's comment that the original script 'was set in the depression era Deep South [of the US]. We had tax based financing in place on condition that it was supposed to be set in Australia. So I suggested we set it in the future, and make it more universal' ('Interview with Brian Trenchard-Smith', Arrow in the Head [horror-film fansite], 5 August 2011).
'INT. LONDON UNDERGROUND PLATFORM DAY
England 1983. Commuters stand in silent groups awaiting the next rattling arrival on the Piccadilly Line.
Work, consume, be silent, die - is etched on the faces of many. The Thatcher Years.
Only two men are having a conversation; one, a young movie geek, the other, a national newspaper film critic (although in fact he sees himself as a Cinema Critic)' (Introduction)
'INT. LONDON UNDERGROUND PLATFORM DAY
England 1983. Commuters stand in silent groups awaiting the next rattling arrival on the Piccadilly Line.
Work, consume, be silent, die - is etched on the faces of many. The Thatcher Years.
Only two men are having a conversation; one, a young movie geek, the other, a national newspaper film critic (although in fact he sees himself as a Cinema Critic)' (Introduction)
