He’s read quite a few scripts in his time, has Cliff Curtis. After all, he’s been in movies for 30 years, ranging from local cinema milestones such as Once Were Warriors, The Dark Horse and this year’s Muru, to playing a United Nations of characters in productions around the world.
But this script was different. At 150 pages, it was a third longer than the usual feature screenplays that came his way. It was also worth many millions more. It came with its own security detail, arriving from Los Angeles on an iPad hand-delivered to Curtis at home in Rotorua. Its courier waited for hours in the car outside while he read it, then gave it back, his head reeling slightly from the