Roger Donaldson: Sleeping Dogs, Smash Palace, Hollywood, and more…

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Roger Donaldson: Sleeping Dogs, Smash Palace, Hollywood, and more…

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Early in his career, director Roger Donaldson was mixing adventure documentaries with adaptations of classic Kiwi short stories (Winners & Losers, made with his friend Ian Mune). Donaldson and Mune then turned CK Stead novel Smith’s Dream into movie Sleeping Dogs. Donaldson's follow-up Smash Palace got him noticed overseas. Since then, he has thrived in Hollywood, working with Mel Gibson, Tom Cruise, and Kevin Costner. He returned to New Zealand for Burt Munro biopic The World’s Fastest I...

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