Hollywood is heading for Hokitika, with the West Coast township in line to be used as the setting for a planned television adaptation of Eleanor Catton's Booker Prize-winning novel, The Luminaries.
In an interview with the Sunday Star-Times today, Catton said she had insisted the production be filmed in New Zealand, and will be taking producer Andrew Woodhouse to the West Coast, and in particular Hokitika, where the novel is set during the gold rush.
An enterprising West Coaster is running tours of Eleanor Catton's 19th-century Hokitika, based on her Man-Booker prize-winning novel The Luminaries. Deidre Mussen went along for the ride.
