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Flourish Magazine - Winter 2024
STARRING ROLE
Taperoo Community Centre has a starring role in a brand new Netflix series shot in the Northern Territory and South Australia.
Desert King is a six-part neo-western and a drama about power, family, land and legacy, based around the fictional Lawson family who own the world’s largest cattle property.
So what’s it got to do with Taperoo?
The Centre was used as one of the film locations and when the production team converged on-site last year, it caused quite a stir, according to centre coordinator Kathy Miller.
“There were about 100 people here,” she says.
As a result, a stunning new mural was painted by local First Nations artist Scott Ratham, and it serves as a lasting reminder of the day Netflix came to town. The series will be released later this year.
