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‘Clambering about in Victorian boots was brutal’: how we made Picnic at Hanging Rock
‘A potential US distributor,’ recalls director Peter Weir, ‘supposedly threw his coffee cup at the screen at the end of the film, saying, “So whodunnit?” He felt he’d wasted a couple of hours’One morning in early 1973, the TV personality Patricia Lovell knocked on my door. She was thinking of buying the rights for a novel by Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock, a story about the mysterious disappearance of three schoolgirls at an ancient rock formation and she was looking for an up-and-coming director. I had been gripped by the book and was very keen to make it. Continue reading...
‘A potential US distributor,’ recalls director Peter Weir, ‘supposedly threw his coffee cup at the screen at the end of the film, saying, “So whodunnit?” He felt he’d wasted a couple of hours’
One morning in early 1973, the TV personality Patricia Lovell knocked on my door. She was thinking of buying the rights for a novel by Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock, a story about the mysterious disappearance of three schoolgirls at an ancient rock formation and she was looking for an up-and-coming director. I had been gripped by the book and was very keen to make it. Continue reading...
