Animal Kingdom was one of the breakout debut films of 2010. Director David Michôd‘s intimate crime thriller not only created future opportunities for himself, but also his cast, which included Joel Edgerton, Jacki Weaver, Ben Mendelsohn, and more. It’s an excellent drama, one that’s now being adapted for television.
Below, watch the Animal Kingdom TV series trailer.
Back in 2011, Showtime was developing the Animal Kingdom series, but the drama ended up finding its home at TNT. The story once again follows “Smurf” Cody (played here by Ellen Barkin) and her family of gangsters, and the set up (a kid goes to live with his criminal family) and the archetypes (the overbearing mother and deeply damaged uncle) remain close to Michôd’s original film, but you can see in the trailer where the television series departs from the Australian drama.