Interview: Director Daniel Nettheim talks The Hunter

By Eric Walkuski

Posted 14 years ago

Daniel Nettheim is a name more or less fresh to the feature film world. After 2000’s ANGST, the Sydney-born director has been working steadily in Australian television, having helmed dozens of episodes for the continent’s most popular series.

With THE HUNTER, Nettheim makes his mark in a distinct way. A methodically-paced thriller with ecological issues on its mind, the film stars Willem Dafoe as a gun-for-hire who’s been dispatched by a biotech company to hunt the legendary Tasmanian Tiger, an animal that may not even exist. I sat down with Daniel to talk about the appeal of the film’s source material and how crucial it was to get Willem Dafoe on board, among several other things.

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