(S9) - PT 4 - Movie Pitch

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When approached by suits from Hollywood looking to make a biopic about his life, Miller was sceptical. After all, while he had succeeded in becoming one of a very small number of people to make it to football’s ultimate level of competition, he didn’t feel he had really accomplished anything within that arena yet that was worthy of being portrayed on the big screen. But when an opportunity like this comes around, you don’t simply turn it down. So, wary though he was, Miller decided he’d hear the producers out.

It wasn’t long until the truth surfaced. The veneer of being interested in Miller’s life travelling between the USA and Australia and how the interplay of the two cultures continues to influence his career in sports didn’t hide what the producers really wanted: the next stereotypical Aussie catchphrase machine to mass-market to the public. In other words, the next Steve Irwin or Crocodile Dundee.

Bloody hell, Miller didn’t want anything to do with those flamin’ galahs and told them to hit the dusty trail before they said g’day to a couple of fists.