Monday, February 11, 2013

Weaving Is "Healing" For Monahan

Hugo Weaving will reunite with his "The Interview" and "Peaches" director Craig Monahan on the prison drama "Healing" says THR


The story centers on real-life prison inmate Viktor Khadem’s (Don Hany) last eighteen months before release after serving a sixteen-year term. Khadem is sent to Won Wron, a low-security, pre-release prison farm, where Senior Officer Matt Perry (Weaving) has established a unique program to rehabilitate broken men by giving them the responsibility for the rehabilitation of injured game birds, such as eagles, falcons and owls.

Xavier Samuel, Jane Menelaus, Anthony Hayes, Mark Leonard Winter, Robert Taylor, Justine Clarke, Laura Brent and Tony Martin also star.

Monahan and AAlison Nisselle co-wrote the screenplay.

Monahan and Tait Brady will produce the film.

Production begins in Melbourne and around regional Victoria next week in time for an early 2014 release.

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