Is The Dry on?

There has been more speculation, informed speculation, that the film version of the novel 'The Dry' by Jane Harper will be filmed in the Wimmera.
In December news reports stated that Eric Bana had been in the district scouting for locations.

Movie star Eric Bana dropped into Minyip today for an ice cream and the latest Minyip Show & Shine calendar (from ABC Western Victoria's Facebook page, 7th December)



 "Filmmakes have selected the town's (Minyip) iconic Club Hotel - which featured heavily in 'The Flying Doctors' - as a shooting location...of a film adaptation of author Jane Harper's novel 'The Dry'" (The Weekly Advertiser newspaper 19 December 2018).

Eric Bana is an executive producer for the project, his first role in an Australian film since 2007 with the release of 'Romulus, my father' another book to film drama.

Roll forward to February, and last weekend a casting call went out to Beulah and Minyip for extras for the shooting of "a major film".

The producers did not specify the name of the film, and the media spokespeople for 'The Dry' have refused to divulge filming locations, but as the casting people required 60-70 people for a funeral scene, and as  a funeral sets up the story for 'The Dry' it is reasonable to guess there aren't two funeral films in the offing.

The understanding is the film will be shot around Minyip, Hopetoun, Beulah & Warracknabeal, another tourism boost for Yarriambiack Shire adding to the Silo Art Trail.

Postscript: Yes it happened - check out some of the real locations from the film in this later post "Describing the Dry"