Wolf Creek 2 officially announced; filming begins Feb 2012

As [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] last year, good mate and “Wolf Creek” writer/director Greg Mclean has [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]
to make a sequel to his 2007 goosebump evoker. Speaking yesterday, the
Melbourne-based filmmaker said the $10 million dollars will be spent
on making a follow-up that’s less indy, more ‘blockbuster’.
“This is Wolf Creek the blockbuster,” McLean, who shot the original film on about a million bucks, tells [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.].
“Our dream was to make a film that created an Australian bogeyman
character that could be the ‘hero’ of a number of different films. In
this film, we’ll really get the chance to do all the stuff we wanted to
do with the first film but did not have the budget to do it.”
Here’s what Mclean [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] in 2010 regarding the project :”Indeed,
we’ve been working on a Wolf Creek 2 script for a few years now,
pushing hard to get it just right to make it as powerful and surprising
a movie experience as possible”, Mclean says.
“This one’s a little wider in scope and we get to see Mick Taylor [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]
in full terrifying glory across the lonely wastes of the Outback.
We’re hoping to shoot next year and everyone involved is psyched to be
seeing John Jarratt reprise Mick. And at the end of the day, from a
directors point of view, he’s too fascinating and chilling a character
to not explore the darkest depths of. And his depths, as you’ll see in
the new film, are pretty damn dark…”

”We’re keeping story details top secret for now, but it is safe to say: scarier, bigger, badder,” producer Matt Hearn told [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.].
Thing is, the Darclight Films [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] already has a synopsis of the film up :Lured
by the promise of an authentic Australian holiday, backpackers
RUTGER, KATARINA and PAUL visit the notorious Wolf Creek crater. Their
dream Outback adventure soon becomes a horrific reality when they
encounter the site’s most infamous local, the last man any traveler to
the vast and isolated region ever wants to meet; MICK TAYLOR (John
Jarratt).
As the backpackers flee, Mick pursues them on an epic, white knuckled
rampage across hostile wasteland. Only one will remain to be dragged
back to his lair to witness the true magnitude of his monstrosity. And
if the last man standing is to have any hope of surviving where no one
has survived before, he’ll have to use every ounce of cunning to
outwit the man behind the monster, and become every bit as ruthless as
the monster inside the man.

The sequel was officially announced by Screen Australia topper [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]
Harley at the Melbourne Intl. Film Festival at the weekend. Apparently
the film will go before the cameras in February 2012 in , The John
Jarratt starrer is one of three new movies that “hail from Victoria”.
Roadshow, who released the original, will distribute the “Wolf Creek” sequel