'Blood money': The Morcombe Blast Joel Edgerton's new film about the hunt for Daniel's killer
The parents of the slain 13-year-old Queensland schoolboy, Daniel Morcombe, criticized the producers of the new Australian film, saying the film “made money on heinous crimes” and “dishonoured” their son. Key points: Released at the Cannes Film Festival in May, The Stranger features actor Joel Edgerton as an undercover police officer. Bruce and Denise Morcombe dismiss the idea the film is fictional and say it’s ‘so sad’ Melbourne International Film Festival says the film is ‘a strong work by a respected Australian director’ The Stranger is a dramatization of the decade-long investigation that led to the arrest of the teenage killer, Brett Peter Cowan. The film’s producers said it was a “fictional account of an undercover police operation that resulted in a successful murder prosecution”. The film, which debuted at the Cannes Film Festival in May, follows two strangers who meet on a plane and become friends. “For Henry Teague (actor Sean Harris), exhausted from a lifetime of physical la