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US axes Aussie-filmed drama Hunters

Ambitious sci-fi, shot at Docklands, is ending in the US after just one season.

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US-produced sci-fi Hunters, which was filmed in Melbourne, has been axed after just one season.

The series, filmed at Docklands for NBCUniversal’s Syfy, drew scathing reviews in the US.

Based on the novel Alien Hunter by Whitley Strieber, it starred Nathan Phillips as a Pennsylvania detective-turned-suspect who discovers alien cells living amongst us after his wife goes missing.

It also stars Britne Oldford, Mark Coles Smith, Lewis Fitz-Gerald and Julian McMahon.

The series was ambitiously produced by Gale Anne Hurd (The Walking Dead) with Natalie Chaidez (12 Monkeys) as showrunner.

No local broadcaster has picked up the series and with the axe swinging, its chances are presumably even more remote.

 

Source: Hollywood Reporter

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    1. On top of the terrible plot, how rural America (or South America) looks like country Australia, etc., the truly odd thing is that the character who is _supposed_ to be Australian, and is played by an Australian, is barely convincing as an Australian.

      I though he was pretty good in Gods of Wheat Street, the rest of the actors are good journeyman or better, and looking at IMDB the directors were more than capable – so I can’t even guess what horror befell production to make it so bad. Except that, whatever they were, they were obviously more horrifying than the script…

      1. Yeah, doesn’t matter how good the actors, directors, photographers, caterers are, if the script stinks, you’re not going to end up with something entertaining unless you’re into turkeys or schadenfreude.

        1. I don’t think it can all be explained by the script, though.

          Take Bosch S1, for example – the script is a nondescript pastiche of literally every detective vs serial killer potboiler ever, it’s so full of cop show cliches from the first scene to the last that if they’d slipped in one more it would’ve burst like Mr. Creosote, and there’s a creeping unintentional hilarity (I started a drinking game every time a black SUV pulled up, but quickly ran out of vodka) that means you’re not sure if it’s in on the joke or not – and yet it transcends all that to be pretty good TV.

          Hunters, though, with apparently good producers/crew/cast, & a script that is probably a touch more original than that, is more like the movie “Congo” – multi-award & box-office winning producers/writer/crew/cast = stinker. Something, somewhere, went terribly wrong…

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