'Boots' fit for Hogan, Jacobson
Murphy to co-write, direct father-son comedy
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Comedy was penned for the duo by helmer Shane Murphy and Stewart Faichney, who worked with Hogan on "Strange Bedfellows."
"Bedfellows" was the highest grossing Oz pic in 2004 and the subject of a failed copyright law suit against Universal's "I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry."
"Charlie & Boots" follows a father and son who travel from Victoria to Cape York to fulfill their lifelong ambition to fish off Australia's northern tip.
Budgeted at about A$7 million ($6 million), pic was funded using Australia's new 40% producer offset and coin from new agency Screen Australia at its inaugural funding meeting in Brisbane on Monday.
Instinct's Shana Levine, David Redman and Dean Murphy will produce, with Transmission's Andrew Mackie and Richard Payten exec producing along with Eden Rock's Thomas Augsberger. Eden Rock will handle foreign sales.
Pic will have a wide theatrical release in Australia in the second-half of 2009.
