The Palace’s Anthony Maras to direct one of the most coveted Hollywood scripts of 2012

An Australian film-maker has signed on to direct and produce one of the most highly regarded unmade scripts in Hollywood.

South Australian-based Anthony Maras will direct A Country of Strangers, which was number two on last year’s Black List of 2012.

The script was written by Sean Armstrong, an American, but is based on the true events of the disappearance of three siblings, the Beaumont children from an Australian beach in January 1966. Detective Geoff Harper’s search lasted 40 years.

Maras’ Anthouse Films will also produce the picture.