About
In November 1990 loner David Gray (played by Matthew Sunderland) killed 13 of his neighbours in the town of Aramoana, near Dunedin. His rampage lasted 22 hours before he was gunned down by police. Out of the Blue is a dramatised reenactment of those traumatic events. Directed by Rob Sarkies and co-written with Graeme Tetley, the film did respectably at the box office and won most of its categories at the 2008 Qantas Film and TV Awards, including Best Film and Screenplay. Click here for more information about the tragedy, and the decision to turn it into a film.
Warning: contains realistic gun violence.
Key Cast & Crew
Dave Whitehead
Sound Design
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Darren Gibbs (Michael Whalley, by car door) and Constable Russell Anderson (Vaughan Slinn) in Out of the Blue.
Photo appears courtesy of the NZ Film Commission
Filming Out of the Blue.
Photographer: Greig Fraser. Supplied by Rob Sarkies.
Behind the scenes on Out of the Blue. Lois Lawn, playing (Eva) Helen Dickson, crawling towards help.
Photographer Greig Fraser. Supplied by Rob Sarkies
Filming actor Matthew Sunderland in Out of the Blue.
Photographer: Greig Fraser. Supplied by Rob Sarkies.
Filming Out of the Blue.
Photographer: Greig Fraser. Supplied by Rob Sarkies.
Policemen Paul Knox (Paul Glover) and Nick Harvey (Karl Urban) in 2006 movie Out of the Blue.
Photo courtesy of the NZ Film Commission
Filming Out of the Blue. From left, Matthew Sunderland (playing David Gray) grip TK Bedford, cinematographer Greig Fraser (holding camera), key grip Hamish McIntyre and gaffer Gerald Morse.
Supplied by Rob Sarkies
