Fourth Dundee movie a chip off the old croc
MEET Brian Dundee – he’s a yank, he’s a city boy and he’s about to bring Australian cinema’s best-known character back to our screens after a 17year absence.
Paul Hogan has decided to throw another sequel on the big screen with a fourth Crocodile Dundee film.
But this time, the star of the show is US comedian Danny McBride, appearing as Mick Dundee’s son Brian.
Hogan, 78, has revealed he has been working for several years on a way to bring his well-known character “to a new generation’’ and the result is Dundee: The Son of a Legend Returns Home.
McBride is best known for starring in the HBO television series, Eastbound & Down and Vice Principal, as well as 2008 comedy Pineapple Express and 2017’s Alien: Covenant.
Rolling Stone recently said the 41-year-old had “built an acting career out of playing a lot of not-so-smart dudes very smartly”.
It seems Brian Dundee is another of those characters.
In a 30-second teaser for the film, McBride is seen standing on a cliff in the Outback and greets the camera saying “G’day losers” in an American accent. He then recreates the film’s most iconic line, “That’s not a knife. That’s a knife,” before goofing around with it, saying “look at that, look at me, look at the knife blade”.
A statement on the film’s official website gives some clues to the plot line. “Crocodile Dundee is back. Well, actually, he’s missing in The Outback,” it says. “And the only person who might be able to find him is the loudmouthed American son no one knew he had – introducing Danny McBride as Brian Dundee.”
The 1986 film grossed $410 million worldwide.