The makers of a new Australian film reportedly based on the events of the 2003 murder of Daniel Morcombe have been described as “morally corrupt” and “parasites” by the Queensland boy’s mother.
Denise Morcombe has tweeted on Thursday her disgust at the new movie The Stranger, starring Joel Edgerton, after the film was unveiled as the headliner for the upcoming Melbourne International Film Festival.
“The movie The Stranger is not supported by the Morcombe family,” she said.
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“Individuals who make money on a heinous crime are parasites.
“They are callously disrespectful to Daniel, the (Daniel Morcombe Foundation) and the Morcombe family.
“We find the making of the movie morally corrupt and cruel. Shame on you.”
Bruce Morcombe, Daniel’s father, said the “connections of the movie have blood on their hands”.
“We are not amused! How can anyone give oxygen to a crime that is so, so evil,” he tweeted.
Daniel was aged 13 when he was abducted and murdered by Brett Peter Cowan on the Sunshine Coast.
It took a nine-year police investigation to secure Cowan’s conviction.
It included undercover police work to lure his confession, which involved officers posing as criminals who had met Cowan on a flight to Perth in 2011.
The Stranger, written by Thomas M. Wright, follows the story of an undercover officer played by Edgerton tasked with securing a confession from a man suspected of murder, played by Sean Harris.
The film reportedly doesn’t focus on Daniel’s experience, rather the relationship between the two men.
Wright has not denied the story is based on the Morcombe investigation, but said the decision to leave out the family’s experience was deliberate.
“One reason I chose not to show the child or family was to make a film with a clear moral perspective,” he told Variety in May.
“I couldn’t presume to know anything of the experience of that family. But I could see that there was a story about empathy and making meaning in the wake of violence, not violence itself.
“All of the actors went very deep on this film. I think it left a mark on everybody.”
Wright also directed the film.
The movie premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May and received positive reviews.
Cowan was convicted after a trial which heard he had long believed he had managed to get away with killing Daniel.
Footage of the undercover operation reveals Cowan twice confessed to officers.
He led them to the site of Daniel’s murder and said “and that’s where it happened”.
Cowan then followed with a graphic account of how he murdered 13-year-old Daniel.
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