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The Empty Beach
The Empty Beach is a 1985 Australian thriller film based on the 1983 novel of the same name by Peter Corris, starring Bryan Brown as private investigator Cliff Hardy.
Cliff Hardy inquires into the disappearance of a beautiful woman's wealthy husband from Bondi Beach.
The original novel was the fourth in the Cliff Hardy series. It was very successful for an Australian book, selling out its initial run of 7,000 copies with another 5,000 issued. (Hardy books typically wound up selling 10,000 copies and The Empty Beach would sell 30,000.)
The novel was adapted for radio on the ABC in 1983.
In the early 1980s Bryan Brown was attached to star as Cliff Hardy in an adaptation of an earlier Corris novel, White Meat. This was to be adapted by Corris, directed by Stephen Wallace and produced by Richard Mason. However no film eventuated. Corris wrote a draft and they applied for funding. According to Corris, "one of the assessors said something like, 'This is the nastiest script I’ve ever read'. The result: no funding."
Several years later producers Tim Read and John Edwards bought an option to The Empty Beach and wanted to make a film starring Bryan Brown as Cliffy Hardy. Bob Weis was attached as executive producer. Weis said "The film was a stepping stone towards trying to make a genre picture work in Australia without being dominated by the history of that kind of movie, a history that's so strongly American."
"It seemed a perfect fit," wrote Corris. "I was contracted to write a script with the producers having an opt-out clause if unsatisfied. I wrote a script which they deemed 'too soft'; I wrote another which they said was 'too hard'. Sandra Levy was then brought in and we wrote a script together. John Edwards said, 'Peter, this is almost there!’ The next I heard, they’d exercised the clause and brought in a new scriptwriter. This was Keith Dewhurst who'd written scripts for the British TV series Z Cars. Good choice, I thought and went overseas, adopting the Hemingway philosophy – take the money and run."
Corris told David Stratton, "I wasn't too upset" by Dewhurst being hired. "I knew I was inexperienced and that the script wasn't right. I thought putting a pro on the job was a good idea and I'd have been happy with a joint credit." Bob Weis says he and director Chris Thomson worked on Keith Dewhurst's final draft.
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The Empty Beach
The Empty Beach is a 1985 Australian thriller film based on the 1983 novel of the same name by Peter Corris, starring Bryan Brown as private investigator Cliff Hardy.
Cliff Hardy inquires into the disappearance of a beautiful woman's wealthy husband from Bondi Beach.
The original novel was the fourth in the Cliff Hardy series. It was very successful for an Australian book, selling out its initial run of 7,000 copies with another 5,000 issued. (Hardy books typically wound up selling 10,000 copies and The Empty Beach would sell 30,000.)
The novel was adapted for radio on the ABC in 1983.
In the early 1980s Bryan Brown was attached to star as Cliff Hardy in an adaptation of an earlier Corris novel, White Meat. This was to be adapted by Corris, directed by Stephen Wallace and produced by Richard Mason. However no film eventuated. Corris wrote a draft and they applied for funding. According to Corris, "one of the assessors said something like, 'This is the nastiest script I’ve ever read'. The result: no funding."
Several years later producers Tim Read and John Edwards bought an option to The Empty Beach and wanted to make a film starring Bryan Brown as Cliffy Hardy. Bob Weis was attached as executive producer. Weis said "The film was a stepping stone towards trying to make a genre picture work in Australia without being dominated by the history of that kind of movie, a history that's so strongly American."
"It seemed a perfect fit," wrote Corris. "I was contracted to write a script with the producers having an opt-out clause if unsatisfied. I wrote a script which they deemed 'too soft'; I wrote another which they said was 'too hard'. Sandra Levy was then brought in and we wrote a script together. John Edwards said, 'Peter, this is almost there!’ The next I heard, they’d exercised the clause and brought in a new scriptwriter. This was Keith Dewhurst who'd written scripts for the British TV series Z Cars. Good choice, I thought and went overseas, adopting the Hemingway philosophy – take the money and run."
Corris told David Stratton, "I wasn't too upset" by Dewhurst being hired. "I knew I was inexperienced and that the script wasn't right. I thought putting a pro on the job was a good idea and I'd have been happy with a joint credit." Bob Weis says he and director Chris Thomson worked on Keith Dewhurst's final draft.