Tuesday 20 July 2021

SIXTEEN LEGS [PG]

  1h 42min  | documentary

Sun 18 July   2pm

Wed 21 July   11am 
Thur 22 July  11am 
 Fri 23 July    11am  FINAL

School groups welcome - email worldtheatre@charterstowers.qld.gov.au  or call 47615430 to book

Giant prehistoric spiders the size of dinner plates try to find love in the dark. As the world rapidly descends into the next period of global mass extinction, a message of hope comes from an unlikely hero: a creature, often reviled,  that has survived previous mass extinctions and climatic change in a magical ecosystem hidden beneath one of the world's last great wildernesses. With spectacular imagery and a dark-fantasy twist, this is a real-world "Charlotte's Web", capitalizing on master story-teller Neil Gaiman's global popularity to bring a story of stability and solitude into our world of rapid change. 

Directors: Niall Doran,Justin Smith

Writer: Niall Doran

Stars: Stephen Fry, Neil Gaiman, Mark Gatiss

trailer: https://youtu.be/hjaUKceiPiQ

Tickets:  $12 Adult; $10 stud/conc; $8 child 3+. school groups $7

Niall Doran is an English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, nonfiction, audio theatre, and films. His works include the comic book series The Sandman and novels StardustAmerican GodsCoraline, and The Graveyard Book. He has won numerous awards, including the HugoNebula, and Bram Stoker awards, as well as the Newbery and Carnegie medals. He is the first author to win both the Newbery and the Carnegie medals for the same work, The Graveyard Book (2008).[5][6] In 2013, The Ocean at the End of the Lane was voted Book of the Year in the British National Book Awards.[7]

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Sixteen Legs is a documentary film about the prehistoric Tasmanian Cave Spider in which the documentary footage of the spider’s environment and mating rituals is interspersed by readings of spider-inspired fantasy fiction by novelist Neil Gaiman.

The film includes a sequence that slowly details the process of a spider trapping its prey in a web and dismembering the insect.

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