Maurice Gee is one of New Zealand's most acclaimed writers. His novels have inspired 80s TV series Under the Mountain, a 2009 movie remake, and two other films (In My Father's Den, Fracture). Gee's work as a screenwriter includes kidult series The Fire-Raiser and The Champion.
I see this film as [...] a sort of artistic meeting-point between two people from different generations of New Zealand, striving to speak of similar things
– Brad McGann, on adapting Gee’s In My Father’s Den