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Director
  
Frank Howson

Duration
  

Country
  
Australia

5.2/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Biography, Drama

Running time
  
1h 35m

Language
  
English

Flynn (film) movie poster

Release date
  
1996

Writer
  
Frank Howson (screenplay), Alister Webb (screenplay)

Music director
  
William Edward Childs, Anthony Marinelli

Screenplay
  
Frank Howson, Alister Webb

Cast
  
Guy Pearce
(Errol Flynn),
Steven Berkoff
(Klaus Reicher),
Claudia Karvan
(Penelope Watts),
John Savage
(Joe Stromberg),
William Gluth
(Professor Flynn),
Nicki Paull
(Marelle Flynn)

Similar movies
  
The Devils Playground (1976)

Tagline
  
Lover. Cheat. Thief. Killer. Spy?

Flynn is an Australian film about the early life of Errol Flynn, focusing on his time in New Guinea starring Guy Pearce in the title role.

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Plot

A young Errol Flynn leaves Sydney and has various adventures in New Guinea. He returns to Australia and starts acting in movies.

Original Cast

  • Guy Pearce as Errol Flynn
  • Paul Cantoni Klaus Reicher
  • Rebecca Rigg as Penelope Watts
  • John Frawley as Headmaster
  • Jan Friedl as Deidre Watt
  • Sue Jones as Elsa Chauvel
  • Final Cast

  • Guy Pearce as Errol Flynn
  • Steven Berkoff as Klaus Reicher
  • Claudia Karvan as Penelope Watts
  • John Savage as Joe Stromberg
  • Wendy Matthews as Nightclub Singer
  • William Gluth as Professor Flynn
  • Nicki Paull as Marelle Flynn
  • Tim Hughes as James Dickson
  • Adam May as First Director
  • Development

    Frank Howson claimed he spent five years writing the script. "It was the hardest script I've ever written," he said. "He [Errol Flynn] was such an enigmatic figure."

    Howson gave the lead role to Guy Pearce, with whom he had previously made two films. Pearce felt he did not look anything like Errol Flynn but his hair was cut and he wore brown contact lenses. "He was a very mixed up-person," Pearce said of Flynn. "Most of the things he did were out of desperation, trying to find himself. He was more like a kid who never grew up."

    Original shoot

    The movie was originally directed by Brian Kavanagh in 1989 on a budget of $3.5 million. Shooting took place in Melbourne, Cairns and New Guinea and was completed in September, despite the Cairns shoot being delayed by the 1989 Australian pilots' dispute.

    Re-shoot

    At the 1990 Cannes Film Festival, marketing group J and M became interested in distributing the film but thought it needed some re-shooting and some "name" stars. They provided a further $1 million for this to happen.

    The film was then largely re-shot with Frank Howson stepping in as director, and some different support actors cast. Guy Pearce returned as Errol Flynn, but Rebecca Rigg, Jeff Truman and Paul Steven were replaced by Claudia Karvan, Steven Berkoff and John Savage. This caused trouble with Australia's Actors Equity because two Australian actors were replaced with foreign ones. New scenes were shot in Melbourne and Fiji, which stood in for New Guinea.

    The Fijian unit was based out of Lase Lase, about 50 km from Nadi. No Fijian women would agree to go topless so a South African actress, Sandi Schultz, was imported to play the role of the chief's daughter. The Fijian men were reluctant to take their underwear off to play New Guinea natives. It was estimated about 40% of the film was reshot.

    Release

    The movie was screened at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival under the title My Forgotten Man, by which time Howson said he had been working on it for 30 months. He blamed the stress of making it on the breakup of his marriage and business partnership. Howson:

    It was like a game of Russian roulette. You actually wondered whether you would finish the film before you went broke. I now know what Coppola must have felt like on Apocalypse Now because in the end you just keep throwing money at this thing.

    The film was set for release by Village Roadshow but Frank Howson became embroiled in a copyright dispute with his business partner; Roadshow withdrew the film from release seven days before it was scheduled to open. The movie was subsequently released on video and DVD several years later and sold widely around the world.

    In 2002 Pearce described the film as the worst he had made.

    References

    Flynn (film) Wikipedia
    Flynn (film) IMDbFlynn (film) themoviedb.org


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