The Cup has tried my patience: Wincer
Director Simon Wincer is about to start production of his new horseracing film The Cup, but he admits that the project has been particularly difficult to put together.
“I’m glad that we’re up and running, because it’s certainly tried my patience a number of times,” Wincer told Encore.
The Cup tells the story of Damien Oliver, winner of the 2002 Melbourne Cup with the horse Media Puzzle. Oliver’s brother was killed in a horse racing accident in Perth, one week before the event.
Wincer and Eric O’Keefe started working on this project in 2003, and it’s taken seven years to make it happen. The $17.5m film was financed in 2008, but fell apart due to the global financial crisis.
Can’t wait to see this movie – hopefully another Australian classic, like Phar Lap was. Such an emotional story too…
I am seeing this film tonight in an advance screening. There have been a lot of bad and ordinary aussie films over the last ten years (nothing great). But I have a feeling that Wincer is on the money with this film and that it may be the next great Aussie film we have all been hoping for. It all starts with a great inspiring story…… go ‘The Cup!’