Taika Waititi’s production company has signed on a group of Māori writers to work on three forthcoming projects about colonisation, according to reports.
The feature film projects will both be adaptations: the first of Tina Makereti’s novel The Imaginary Lives of James Pōneke, about a Māori boy exhibited as a living “curiosity” in Victorian London.
Filming dates are not yet set but the projects are expected to get underway in the near future.
Morgan Waru, who will head up development of the projects along with Neal, told Screendaily that casting choices would be made in a similar spirit.