Author Markus Zusak knocked back Hollywood to make The Messenger TV series in Australia

I think I want to watch “The Messenger”

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Markus Zusak says he’s glad he held out for an Australian TV production of The Messenger.(Supplied:Hugh Stewart)

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Australian author Markus Zusak received multiple offers from Hollywood to turn his novel The Messenger into a film or TV series in the US.

“I think there were about three or four, maybe five opportunities along the way, and some just didn’t work out. Some I rejected,” he says.

Another of his novels, international bestseller The Book Thief,was made into a Hollywood blockbuster.

But Zusak decided any screen adaptation of The Messenger should take place in Australia.

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Chris Alosio, William McKenna, Kartanya Maynardand Alexandra Jensen in the ABC TV series The Messenger.(ABC)

“I recall one in particular around the time The Book Thief was doing really well, and on…

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