![]() The group encounter a human skull with a maggot crawling through an eye socket, before looking up to discover a severed arm dripping with blood. Mulcahy and his screenwriters (four are credited, including Flynn’s grandson Luke) whisk the audience through a series of rapid-fire escapades. When the cameraman, Ronald (Lochlyn Munro), asks the director, Joel Schwartz (Dan Fogler), where he found this funny Australian fellow, Schwartz responds: “He was the only schmuck who answered the ad.” Introduced as “a mostly true account of the Hollywood star’s early adventures”, the plot kicks off in the jungles of New Guinea where Flynn (Thomas Cocquerel) leads a small expedition of US film-makers. Mulcahy’s oeuvre includes the Ozploitation film Razorback (AKA “Jaws on Trotters”), two Highlander movies and an array of music videos including the Buggles’ Video Killed the Radio Star.įlynn’s legacy is tied to the idea that the story of our lives and the narrative of real-life events are two very different things. ![]() ![]() ![]() It is both celebration and embellishment of his legacy, directed by a man who is a bit of a legend himself. The director Russell Mulcahy’s Queensland-shot period swashbuckler In Like Flynn adapts a novel written by Flynn himself, Beam Ends, set during his pre-acting years when the future star supposedly embarked on a quest to locate a stash of gold in New Guinea. ![]()
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