Wake in Fright to get TV treatment in two-part series for Network Ten

‘Provocative, morally complex and brilliantly realised’ outback thriller to hit the small screen in 2017, 46 years after the release of Ted Kotcheff’s cult classic

A two-part adaptation of Kenneth Cook’s classic Australian novel, Wake in Fright, will be coming to television in 2017, Network Ten announced on Thursday.

Produced by Lingo Pictures in association with Endemol Shine Australia, the series is the second screen adaptation of the outback thriller, following the 1971 film directed by Ted Kotcheff which has since become a cult classic.

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