#The labyrinth 2 full movie movie#
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To get a book published is hard to get a screenplay turned into a feature film is a thousand times harder.' 'It feels like the realisation of a dream,' he says.

#The labyrinth 2 full movie movie#

Filming took place in Sydney earlier this year, with the movie set for release in early 2022.ДЄustralian Story caught up with Reilly in May on day 31 of the 33-day shoot.В Looking more like a boyish accountant than a middle-aged movie director, Reilly seems slightly overawed that he had actually achieved his life-long ambition.Д®xhausted but exhilarated, he can barely contain his excitement, bouncing around the set and acting out scenes. Pataky's husband, Australian actor Chris Hemsworth, is one of the movie's executive producers. When Netflix eventually picked up the project, everything finally fell into place, Spanish actor Elsa Pataky signed on as the lead, with Australian Luke Bracey playing the villain. ( Supplied: Netflix/Brook Rushton) A childhood dream realised It would be action-packed but that action would largely take place on one set.Д®lsa Pataky plays the lead role in Interceptor. He came up with Interceptor, about a female army captain on a US missile interceptor facility who has to stop 16 nuclear missiles aimed at 16 American cities. Something that could be made for less than $15 million. So in 2017 Reilly sat down to write a screenplay that he could direct. That would cost $100 millionВ and they don't let a first-time director have that sort of budget.' 'Nobody would ever let me direct an adaptation of one of my books because the books are designed to be bigger than the biggest Hollywood blockbusters. Reilly's books were too cinematic, too action-packed.

And given the success of his books and their cinematic nature, adapting one of them for the screen would have seemed the obvious path to directing.Д«ut there was a problem. In Los Angeles, if you've got a good idea for an action movie, there's somebody who might be ready to make it.' The Interceptor inception 'The Australian film industry, because of its size, makes a certain kind of movie. 'I landed in Los Angeles and sort of found my tribe in terms of people who like my kind of movie,' he says. So at the start of 2015, Reilly and Freeman moved to Los Angeles.

The couple needed to create new memories and Reilly was impatient to pursue his lifelong dream of directing movies.

'I had been with Natalie in Sydney for 18 years, so there were just memories in every corner of the city.' He started writing again and in 2013 he met his current partner, Kate Freeman.ДЄs the relationship developed, Reilly found it increasingly difficult to remain in Sydney. Gradually, however, he began to pick up the pieces. He became lost in his grief and was unable to write. While Reilly wasВ on a book tour, his wife Natalie took her own life after battling anorexia and depression.

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Such setbacks, however, paled in comparison to the personal tragedy that struck in late 2011. All the others, they're the slings and arrows of Hollywood.' Literary Superstars got that close to the top of the mountain and fell to nothing.

We had ABC and NBC in America both bid for that show. 'The strike lasted for five months, and my show died. Actor Jenna Elfman was attached to the project and other casting was well under way when the American Writers Guild went on strike.

#The labyrinth 2 full movie tv#

The one that hurts the most, though, was Literary Superstars, a script for a TV pilot set in the publishing industry that was picked up by Sex and the City producer Darren Star in 2007. His novels Ice Station, Scarecrow, The Great Zoo of China and Hover Car Racer were all optioned by Hollywood but stalled in various stages ofВ development. There have been many false starts in Reilly's efforts to forge a film career. Reilly is now published in more than 20 languages and has sold more than 7.5 million copies of his novels. Impressed by Reilly's chutzpah - and the draft of his next novel, Ice Station - she signed him to a two-book contract and the rest is history. It was there thatВ it caught the eye of Cate Patterson, then a commissioning editor at Pan Macmillan Australia, which had previously rejected the novel. He put enormous thought into the cover design so that it would sit comfortably alongside other contemporary action thrillers and convinced a bookstore in central Sydney to stock it. How he came to be represented by Pan MacMillan after putting out that novel himself is now the stuff of publishing legend.ДЄfter being rejected by every publisher he approached, he decided to self-publish Contest, taking out a loan to do so. Reilly wrote his first novel, Contest, at 19 while studying law at university. This week, the 47-year-old author releases his 19th novel and the last in the popular Jack West Jr series. Reilly considers Back to the Future among his favourite films of all time.