MAY 2020
The Luminaries, New Zealand author Eleanor Catton's 2013 Man Booker Prize-winning novel, is many things: A nearly 850-page tour de force organised according to astrological principles with more than a dozen key characters and multiple points of view, a complex Victorian thriller, a murder mystery and an examination of the ruthlessness that governed New Zealand's gold rush in the 1860s.
"I think what [the producers] did, which is really smart, is they looked at the book and said, 'Ok what is the way in, what story do we hone in on,' and that was Anna and Emery’s story, the two of them finding each other."
The Luminaries premieres on May 17 on TVNZ 1.
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