‘Stuff The British Stole’ Doc Collection Tailored As Scripted TV Heist Caper; Picket Horse, Warner Bros, Anchuli Felicia King & Ben Chessell Hooked up

EXCLUSIVE: Stuff the British Stole, the Australian-Canadian doc collection concerning the impression of British colonialism, is being remade as a six-part scripted heist caper.

Anchuli Felicia King, who wrote on HBO’s The Sympathizer and The Child and Deadloch for Prime Video, is creating and writing the collection, which is popping out of Australia and billed by producers as “an exploration of the the nuanced debate round repatriation by means of a sharply humorous lens.”

Ben Chessell (The Nice, Giri Haji, Physician Who) is hooked up to direct and write episodes, with Kacie Anning (Class of ‘07, Add, The Different Man) and award-winning First Nations author and playwright Dylan Van Den Berg additionally on the inventive workforce.

Aussie indie Wooden Horse, which made Disney+ collection The Clearing, is co-producing with Warner Bros International Television Production (WBITVP) Australia, identified for the likes of The Twelve, on which King was a author, and Love Me. Picket Horse’s Jude Troy and Richard’s Finlayson are exec producing alongside WBITVP’s Michael Brooks and Hamish Lewis. Marc Fennell, who created the unique Stuff the British Stole, can also be an exec producer.

Stuff the British Stole highlights the controversy round artefacts taken throughout the top of the British Empire, and launched in Canada on CBC and Australia on the ABC in 2022. It has included contributions from the likes of Stephen Fry and a second season launched final week on June 17. A 3rd season of the present — which is from Picket Horse, WildBear Leisure and Cream Productions — is in growth, we hear.

The hour-long drama adaptation can also be at growth stage. In accordance with the producers, it should take “a provocative and sharply noticed deep dive into the complexity of historical past, and id, in our trendy world by means of an irreverent and wryly humorous lens.”

“Led by Anchuli Felicia King, the writing workforce, alongside hooked up set-up director Ben Chessell, have developed a singular forged of numerous and interesting characters, who virtually by accident steal their solution to changing into the heroes of a world repatriation motion,” they added in a press release. “In doing so, they discover themselves not simply on the run, however in the midst of a multi-government, political shit storm.

“If there’s one factor we realized from the good Stuff the British Stole factual collection, it’s that historical past is complicated – a lesson our characters will be taught the laborious approach.” 

Former eOne exec Troy and ex-ABC tv chief Finlayson launched Picket Horse in 2019. It landed plenty of wins on the Display screen Producers Australia Awards, together with Breakthrough Enterprise of the 12 months and Miniseries Manufacturing of the 12 months for Disney+ collection The Clearing.

WBITVP Australia is understood for Binge collection Love Me and Foxtel thriller dramas The Twelve, and just lately wrapped manufacturing on Make Gravy, the display screen adaptation of the Paul Kelly tune that we first told you about in October last year. The latter will probably be streamer Binge’s first movie.

Anchuli Felicia King is represented by Yellow Artistic Administration (ANZ) and CAA. Ben Chessell is represented by The Fleming Company (ANZ) and United Brokers within the UK. Dylan Van Den Berg is represented by Cameron’s Administration (ANZ) and Kacie Anning is represented by Artistic Illustration (ANZ) and WME (USA).