EXCLUSIVE: Greg McLean, director of the Australian drama series Territory, which is currently sitting at No. 3 on Netflix’s list of its Top 10 TV Shows in the U.S. after premiering October 24, has signed with Range Media Partners for management.
Billed as the Aussie version of Yellowstone, the six-part series follows the generational clashes that threaten to tear the Lawson family apart when Marianne Station is left without a clear successor. Sensing this once-great dynasty is in decline, the outback’s most powerful factions — rival cattle barons, desert gangsters, Indigenous elders and billionaire miners — move in for the kill. With billions of dollars at stake, everyone wants a piece of the pie.
Mclean launched his filmmaking career with the smash hit 2005 horror flick Wolf Creek, which he wrote and directed, after training as a fine artist and working as a director in theatre and opera. The film played at the Sundance and Cannes Film Festivals and over the decades has solidified its cult status. Following his work there, he went on to write, direct and produce thrillers Rogue and Wolf Creek 2. Additional feature credits include directing 2015’s gripping horror thriller The Belko Experiment for Orion Pictures followed by Jungle, a survival thriller based upon real-life events starring Daniel Radcliffe.
In addition to a Wolf Creek series for Stan, for which he directed and exec produced two seasons, TV credits for McLean include Stan’s Scrublands, as well as The Gloaming (ABC International), Bloom (Sony TV), Jack Irish (ABC), the hit NBCU sci-fi series La Brea, and The Twelve, starring Sam Neil, for Foxtel/Warner Bros.
McLean is also part of Huge Film, a partnership with fellow filmmaker Patrick Hughes and screenwriter James Beaufort, through which the trio produces action, horror and thriller projects in Australia. Currently, they’re in production on the company’s first feature, the sci-fi action thriller War Machine for Netflix, starring Reacher‘s Alan Ritchson. McLean exec produces the project written by Beaufort and Hughes and directed by Hughes.
Up next, McLean is writing and directing the supernatural thriller The First Exorcist due to film next year in Australia. Additionally, he’s set to produce a third Wolf Creek film, Wolf Creek: Legacy (wt).
McLean continues to be represented by Nelson Davis.
