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First look images released from South Australian filmed vampire series Firebite
05 November 2021
Feast your eyes on this: the first-look images from new AMC Studios and See-Saw Films vampire fantasy series Firebite have been released today, showing vampires and their hunters in the South Australian desert.
Filmed at the SAFC’s Adelaide Studios and in Coober Pedy in the South Australian Outback, the original eight-episode series stars Yael Stone (Orange is the New Black), Rob Collins (Cleverman, Extraction), Callan Mulvey (Avengers: End Game) and First Nations star Shantae Barnes-Cowan in a new spin on the vampire genre, following two Indigenous Australian hunters, Tyson (Collins) and Shanika (Barnes-Cowan), on their quest to battle the last colony of vampires in the middle of the South Australian desert.
Created, directed and written by one of Australia’s most celebrated First Nations auteur voices, Warwick Thornton (Samson and Delilah, Sweet Country) alongside Brendan Fletcher (Mad Bastards), with Tony Krawitz (The Tall Man, Dead Europe) joining as director, Firebite is set in a remote desert mining town, a hive for the last vampire stronghold shipped from Britain to Australia in 1788 by the colonial superpower to eradicate the Indigenous populations.
Rob Collins as Tyson and Shante Barnes-Cowan as Shanika in Firebite, Photo Credit: Ian Routledge/AMC+ 
Shantae Barnes-Cowan as Shanika in Firebite, Photo Credit: Ian Routledge/AMC+ 
Rob Collins as Tyson in Firebite, Photo Credit: Ian Routledge/AMC+ 
Rob Collins as Tyson in Firebite, Photo Credit: Ian Routledge/AMC+ 
Kelton Pell as Jalingbirri in Firebite, Photo Credit: Ian Routledge/AMC+ 
Shantae Barnes-Cowan as Shanika in Firebite, Photo Credit: Ian Routledge/AMC+ 
Rob Collins as Tyson and Shante Barnes-Cowan as Shanika in Firebite, Photo Credit: Ian Routledge/AMC+ 
Yael Stone as Eleona in Firebite, Photo Credit: Ian Routledge/AMC+ 
Callan Mulvey as Josiah in Firebite, Photo Credit: Ian Routledge/AMC+
Sheltering from the sun in the underground mines and tunnels that surround the town until the present day, the colony’s numbers and hunger is growing. War is coming. Tyson and Shanika stand vanguard to the war. But what hope does an expertly reckless man full of bravado and a 17-year-old orphan possibly have to defeat these vicious blood-thirsty parasites, when legions of warriors before them have failed?
Kristin Jones is overseeing the series for AMC Networks. Executive producers for See-Saw Films are Emile Sherman and Iain Canning, alongside Rachel Gardner, Thornton and Fletcher. See-Saw’s Simon Gillis and Kodie Bedford serve as co-executive producers with Kodie Bedford as script producer, Libby Sharpe as co-producer and Billy Bowring as associate producer. South Australian producer Paul Ranford (Stateless, True History of the Kelly Gang) produces the series alongside Indigenous filmmaker Dena Curtis (Elements, Grace Beside Me), who is co-producing.
AMC Studios Content Distribution is managing worldwide sales.
Firebite is set to premiere in Australia and the US on Thursday 16 December, 2021 via premium streaming platform AMC+.