It started as a joke. Years ago, Australian-born stand-up Monty Franklin stumbled across an entry on Wikipedia about the Great Emu War. Now all-but-forgotten, the incident refers to a month in 1932 when the Australian government, in an attempt to curb the wild population of emus chomping on farm crops, enlisted a battalion of World War I veterans with machine guns and military training. The result was a decisive victory. For the Emus.
Franklin, who had never heard of the Great Emu War, turned the entry into a hit routine and, together with his friend and SNL veteran Rob Schneider, a ...
Franklin, who had never heard of the Great Emu War, turned the entry into a hit routine and, together with his friend and SNL veteran Rob Schneider, a ...
- 11/4/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
It started as a joke. Years ago, Australian-born stand-up Monty Franklin stumbled across an entry on Wikipedia about the Great Emu War. Now all-but-forgotten, the incident refers to a month in 1932 when the Australian government, in an attempt to curb the wild population of emus chomping on farm crops, enlisted a battalion of World War I veterans with machine guns and military training. The result was a decisive victory. For the Emus.
Franklin, who had never heard of the Great Emu War, turned the entry into a hit routine and, together with his friend and SNL veteran Rob Schneider, a ...
Franklin, who had never heard of the Great Emu War, turned the entry into a hit routine and, together with his friend and SNL veteran Rob Schneider, a ...
- 11/4/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Comedy legend John Cleese has signed on to star in The Great Emu War, an Australian-set action-adventure comedy inspired by ridiculous true events in the outback in the 1930s.
Aussie comedians Monty Franklin and Jim Jefferies and New Zealand funnyman Rhys Darby (What We Do in the Shadows, Flight of the Conchords) are also attached to the film, which Franklin wrote, inspired by real events in Western Australia in 1932 when the Australian army declared war on the country’s wild emu population. And lost.
Yaniv Raz (Dr. Bird’s Advice For Sad Poets) will direct The Great Emu War, with Robyn Kershaw (Bran Nue Dae, Seriously ...
Aussie comedians Monty Franklin and Jim Jefferies and New Zealand funnyman Rhys Darby (What We Do in the Shadows, Flight of the Conchords) are also attached to the film, which Franklin wrote, inspired by real events in Western Australia in 1932 when the Australian army declared war on the country’s wild emu population. And lost.
Yaniv Raz (Dr. Bird’s Advice For Sad Poets) will direct The Great Emu War, with Robyn Kershaw (Bran Nue Dae, Seriously ...
- 10/27/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Comedy legend John Cleese has signed on to star in The Great Emu War, an Australia-set action-adventure comedy inspired by a ridiculous true story.
Aussie comedians Monty Franklin and Jim Jefferies and New Zealand funnyman Rhys Darby (What We Do in the Shadows, Flight of the Conchords) are also attached to the film, which Franklin wrote, inspired by real events in Western Australia in 1932 when the Australian army declared war on the country’s wild emu population — and lost.
Yaniv Raz (Dr. Bird’s Advice for Sad Poets) will direct The Great Emu War; Robyn Kershaw (Bran Nue Dae, Seriously Red) is producing with Village ...
Aussie comedians Monty Franklin and Jim Jefferies and New Zealand funnyman Rhys Darby (What We Do in the Shadows, Flight of the Conchords) are also attached to the film, which Franklin wrote, inspired by real events in Western Australia in 1932 when the Australian army declared war on the country’s wild emu population — and lost.
Yaniv Raz (Dr. Bird’s Advice for Sad Poets) will direct The Great Emu War; Robyn Kershaw (Bran Nue Dae, Seriously Red) is producing with Village ...
- 10/27/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
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