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Interview with Director, Writer and Producer Jonathan King.

Interview with Director, Writer and Producer Jonathan King.

A 10 minute excerpt from this feature film.

A 10 minute excerpt from this feature film.

Behind the scenes footage from this film.

Behind the scenes footage from this film.

The credits from this feature film.

The credits from this feature film.

Under the Mountain

Film (Trailer, Excerpts, and Extras) – 2009

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Maurice Gee's classic novel about aliens running amok under Auckland has rarely gone out of print, since its debut in 1979. First adapted as a memorable 80s TV series, this movie retooling sees teenage twins Theo and Rachel stumbling across shape-shifting creatures that are hiding beneath Auckland's extinct volcanoes. American showbiz magazine Variety praised Black Sheep director Jonathan King's "solid helming", and the excellent acting of Sam Neill as the mysterious Mr Jones. Oliver Driver plays lead villain Mr Wilberforce, under four hours of make-up.

We ran out of weather cover really pretty fast because it was raining pretty much every day. We had days where it would go from bright sunlight to hail within, you know, five minutes.
– Producer Richard Fletcher on filming in Auckland, Flicks website, 10 December 2009

Key Cast & Crew

Sam Neill

As: Mister Jones

Oliver Driver

As: Mister Wilberforce

Jonathan King

Director, Writer, Producer

Richard Fletcher

Producer

Matthew Grainger

Producer, Writer

Nathan Meister

As: Johan/Lenart

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Produced by

Index Films
Liberty Films

Source

New Zealand Film Commission

Acknowledgements

Made with funding from the NZ Film Commission and NZ On Air

Music

Score composed by Victoria Kelly

Music performed by the NZ Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Marc Taddei

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