In the violent underworld of New Zealand’s outlaw bikers, a warrior torn between two lives, two callings and two families must decide which path defines his true destiny.
In italics is the summary of SOA
The only change is New Zealand and warrior. Well, define a warrior first, I don't know that New Zealand has any warriors. Warriors are made in wars, and New Zealand has not been a part of a war since... WW2?
That would make any WW2 participant a centenarian. Not many guys over a 100 years old can be described as warriors, so, yeah, I get it, they are trying to make hay on the whole native New Zealanders cultural heritage of tribal wars... but, without wars, or armies, what exactly is the word or words that accurately define the character they are calling a warrior?
Because the rugby players are the toughest bunch in New Zealand from what I've seen.
in 2019, Sutter was fired from his previous series, FX’s Mayans M.C., following an investigation into complaints from writers, producers, cast and crew about a hostile work environment on the show. Sutter at the time disputed the allegations — he has subsequently owned up to his past behavior — and instead put the spotlight on the “creative scrutiny of Disney,” that he claimed had created a conflict as he “pushed back. Hard.”
Sutter recently split on the Netflix series The Abandons just three weeks before the sprawling Western starring Lena Headey and Gillian Anderson is slated to wrap production in Calgary. Sutter was the executive producer/showrunner on the series, which he also created.
What is nuts, is just how damn good, and brilliant, SOA was in story, plot, pace, dialogue and casting, and that we've had to wait so damn long for another series from Sutter, that he's fully a part of, and remains connected to.
I get it, genius creative types are impossible to work with, and impossible to ignore, as they are the only source of the incredible. That's why so many have to run solo, like Lucas with Star Wars. His vision and dialog was such a mess, but at the heart of it, a pure gem of a story.
Whatever it comes to, it'll be hard competing with real life: flashbak.com/the-mongrel-mob-of-aotearoa-new-zealand-472434/
ReplyDeleteI posted about them, about a decade ago. But tattoos don't impress me, I was in the Navy in the 90s. Just another bunch of guys getting inked and drunk, lol. There's a lot of that going around.
DeleteBut the real gangsters in that region, remind me of Chopper Reed. Eric Bana portrayed him in a movie about 25 years ago.
Some biker gang that tries so damn hard to look the part, just indicates to me that they have had insecurity issues, need to be part of a pack, and need to macho up to feed their egos.
Oh, and that movie was my intro to Eric Bana, all around nice guy and car enthusiast, you might remember his documentary, Love The Beast in 2009 https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2015/03/fuel-magazines-new-issue-looks-to-be.html
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