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[09/19/23 - 01:01 PM]
Netflix Outback Drama Commences Production in the Northern Territory and South Australia
In "Desert King," when the world's largest cattle station is left without a clear successor, generational clashes threaten to tear the Lawson family apart.







DESERT KING (NETFLIX)
DEVELOPMENT HISTORY:
9/19/23
STATUS:
currently in development (2024-2025 season)
DEVELOPMENT STAGE:
ordered to series
ADDITIONAL NOTES:
six-part series
DESCRIPTION:
(from Netflix's press release, September 2023) Production on the six-part neo-western drama Desert King (working title) has begun on the traditional land of the Larrakia people (Darwin, Northern Territory) as well as other beautiful locations around the Top End; and the Kaurna people (Adelaide, South Australia), representing one of the largest local screen productions filmed in both the Territory and South Australia. When the world's largest cattle station is left without a clear successor, generational clashes threaten to tear the Lawson family apart. Sensing this once great dynasty is in decline, the outback's most powerful factions - rival cattle barons, desert gangsters, Indigenous elders and billionaire miners - move in for the kill. Desert King is an explosive drama about power, family, land and legacy.
CREW INFORMATION:
· Ben Davies as CRTR
· Ben Davies as EP
· Greg McLean as DIR
· Ian Collie as EP
· Paul Ranford as PROD
· Rob Gibson as EP
· Tim Lee as CRTR
GENRE(S):
· drama
STUDIO INFORMATION:
· Production Attraction Incentive Program
· SAFC Screen Production Fund