‘Stuff The British Stole’ Doc Series Adapted As Scripted TV Heist Caper; Wooden Horse, Warner Bros, Anchuli Felicia King & Ben Chessell Attached
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Stuff the British Stole, the Australian-Canadian doc series about the impact of British colonialism, is being remade as a six-part scripted heist caper.
Anchuli Felicia King, who wrote on HBO’s The Sympathizer and The Baby and Deadloch for Prime Video, is creating and writing the series, which is coming out of Australia and billed by producers as “an exploration of the the nuanced debate around repatriation through a sharply funny lens.” Ben Chessell (The Great, Giri Haji, Doctor Who) is attached to direct and write episodes, with Kacie Anning (Class of ‘07, Upload, The Other Guy) and award-winning First Nations writer and playwright Dylan Van Den Berg also on the creative team.
Aussie indie Wooden Horse, which madeDisney+ series The Clearing, is co-producing with Warner Bros International Television Production (WBITVP) Australia, known for the likes of The Twelve, on which King was a writer, and Love Me.
Wooden Horse’s Jude Troy and Richard’s Finlayson are exec producing alongside WBITVP’s Michael Brooks and Hamish Lewis. Marc Fennell, who created the original Stuff the British Stole, is also an exec producer.
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