Russell Crowe and Nicholas Hoult are set to star in True History of the Kelly Gang from director Justin Kurzel (Assassin's Creed, Macbeth).

Captain Fantastic actor George MacKay and Essie Davis will also star in the Gothic Western, which is based on Peter Carey’s Booker Prize-winning novel of the same name.

The story chronicles Ned Kelly (MacKay), one of the world’s greatest outlaws, and the colonial badlands from which he rose.

Source: Press Release