THE HUNTER In Dafoe, Neill, And O’Connor

Hollywood Reporter said Willem Dafoe, Sam Neill, and Frances O’Connor will star in the adaptation, THE HUNTER, based on the book by author Julia Leigh…
This is an Australian psychological thriller, directed by Daniel Nettheim and production has started this week in Tasmania.
The story is about a mercenary sent from Europe by an anonymous biotech company to the Tasmanian wilderness on a dramatic hunt for the last Tasmanian tiger.
Also part of the cast are Morgana Davies, Jacek Koman, Dan Wyllie, Sullivan Stapleton, John Brumpton, Callan Mulvey and newcomer Finn Woodlock.

Here’s the book’s official synopsis..
“In the vast wilderness of Tasmania’s plateau, the Tasmanian tiger – the thylacine – long thought extinct, has been spotted, sparking the imagination of the locals and drawing the dubious interests of outsiders. One of the latter is M, whose objective is to find the creature for a multinational biotech company. In The Hunter, author Julia Leigh tracks M’s fateful course, from his base camp with a young family whose ranks were decimated by the wilderness, to the forests where M immerses himself in the tiger’s world – reading footprints in the mud, covering his scent with animal dung. What begins as a business proposition takes on mythic aspects as M’s quest becomes ever more obsessive, a search not for ultimate profit but for the essence of life that technology has all but crushed.”