After directing a couple documentaries, Russell Crowe is about to take the big step up to feature films. His first effort to direct will be a movie based on a documentary Crowe narrated.
The fact-based film is about a counterculture movement in a surf community in Australia, which Stuart Beattie will write. Variety reports the studio will base the film on the documentary, of the same name, that focuses on Sunny, Koby and Jai Abberton, three brothers who began the underground surfer movement in the inner-Sydney seaside suburb of Maroubra. It addresses the triumphs of the large, rough-and-tumble group, as well as their social struggles.
Surfers huh? With a title like that I would figure most would assume it was about lingerie. But no, its about these brothers.
For those not in the know (or not Beatles fans – Obla-di obla-da life goes on bra!) Bra is a slang for brother in most places in the world. I know this isn’t shocking news, but someone might not know and think that this touching movie about surfer brothers is actually some expose on cross dressers.
Good on Russell Crowe. Climbing the ladder just like any celebrity should. I have no problems with actors learning to direct, and there has been a number of success stories. But there is a process. It looks like Crowe is earning his stripes as he goes along and that I find very respectable.
