Turtle Beach (film)

Turtle Beach aka The Killing Beach is a 1992 Australian film directed by Stephen Wallace and starring Greta Scacchi and Joan Chen. The screenplay was written by Ann Turner, based on the novel of the same name by Blanche dAlpuget. It caused controversy in Malaysia where the Government took exception to scenes of Malays executing refugees.

Ann Turner was working for Roadshow when she was hired to adapt the novel, which she loved. However she says the project soon became compromisedWhen I first saw the film I thought it looked like the writer was on drugs or completely insane, because you could see there were two films working within the one film... There were a lot of different voices in terms of the financeraising, there was American money, and the producers many, plural really had very different views of what the film should be. Greta Scacchi really liked the book and liked the script and fought for it. But during the process of developing the script, they brought in an American writer and it really changed. I was off directing Police Rescue at the time. Then the cast, when they were in Thailand, said theyd signed on the script that Id written and wanted to change it back to that. There was something about the American script that was more like King Rat than Turtle Beach. So then I was flown out to Thailand to rewrite the rewrite and the film ended up actually being a combination of both. ........

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