All the book-based movies and TV shows featuring Dan Wyllie

Beneath the seemingly calm exterior of Canberra, amidst escalating tensions between China and the United States, Harriet Dunkley, a journalist working for the Canberra press gallery, persistently works her way towards uncovering the truth. She discovers a covert city filled with interconnected conspiracies which put her career, life, and the freedom of all Australians in jeopardy.

Beneath the seemingly calm exterior of Canberra, amidst escalating tensions between China and the United States, Harriet Dunkley, a journalist working for the Canberra press gallery, persistently works her way towards uncovering the truth. She discovers a covert city filled with interconnected conspiracies which put her career, life, and the freedom of all Australians in jeopardy.

Beneath the seemingly calm exterior of Canberra, amidst escalating tensions between China and the United States, Harriet Dunkley, a journalist working for the Canberra press gallery, persistently works her way towards uncovering the truth. She discovers a covert city filled with interconnected conspiracies which put her career, life, and the freedom of all Australians in jeopardy.

Chopper tells the intense story of Mark “Chopper” Read, a legendary criminal, whose attention-seeking mix of psychotic violence and matey ingratiation made him an outcast even in the underworld and finally turned him into a bestselling celebrity without any need for repentance and regeneration. His book, “From the Inside”, upon which the film is based, was a best-seller.

The film begins in 1919, just after World War I has ended, and centres around Joshua Connor, an Australian farmer and water diviner. Major Hasan, a Turkish Army officer assisting the ANZACs, persuades the ANZAC captain Lieutenant Colonel Cyril Hughes to prioritize helping Joshua with his search, as the only father to care enough to come all this way to find the fate of his sons.

Mercenary Martin David is hired by military biotech company, Red Leaf, to go to Tasmania and gather samples of a supposedly extinct marsupial, the thylacine, with further instructions to kill all remaining tigers to ensure no competing organization will get their DNA. Posing as a university biologist, Martin lodges in the home of the Armstrong family: Lucy and her two young children, Katie and Jamie.

Detective Joe Cashin unravels a tangled web of deceit, disloyalty, and police misconduct in a tiny coastal town, where the strain has reached a fever pitch, and the distressing reality concealed beneath the town’s honorable veneer is gradually brought to light.

An engaging and poignant Australian coming-of-age tale unfolds around Charlie Bucktin, a 14-year-old boy with a penchant for books. When Jasper Jones, the town’s mixed-race outcast, reveals the lifeless body of young Laura Wishheart to him one night, Charlie’s world takes an irreversible turn. Entrusted with this grave secret and steadfast in his belief in Jasper’s innocence, Charlie embarks on a perilous journey to unveil the true culprit.

The Turning, a hauntingly gorgeous collaborative film directed by seventeen brilliant filmmakers, explores the remarkable events in ordinary lives that change them for the rest of time. The passing of time, regret, addiction, and obsession are constant themes that run through all of the stories.

Georgie is slowly suffocating in a loveless marriage to fishing tycoon Jim Buckridge. Handsome poacher Lu is an irresistible symbol of the excitement she craves. A passionate affair follows that reveals the dark secrets in Lu’s past and forces him to take flight into the blistering heat of the outback. Georgie follows, determined to find him and bring him back.