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The Advertiser
7 days ago
- Entertainment
- The Advertiser
Long shelved film a tribute to a much-loved son who will never be forgotten
Filmmaker Cameron Miller felt he had nowhere to go after his son's death of congenital heart disease at the age of 17. Mr Miller, 54, is hoping money raised from his latest film, a project that has been a quarter of a century in the making, will fund a place that offers respite to other parents who find themselves in the same agonising position he found himself in after he lost Shaun in 2012. "After I lost Shaun, I went through quite an amount of grief and, sort of, you know, had a bit of a breakdown and stuff, and what I realised is we need to have a place for parents," he said. "I'm hoping that if this film's successful, we can build the first Shaun Miller House... (A place) where they (parents) can go after grieving their child, because there's, there's nowhere to go. "They just give you a box of their things and say, 'See you later', and you're out the door." Read more from The Senior Prior to his death, Shaun had urged Mr Miller to complete Yesterday's Hero, a film he first started working on 25 years ago. Those early days of production marked an extremely trying time for Mr Miller. As he worked tirelessly on the film during the day, his cast and crew had no idea he was tending to his seriously ill son, then just five years old, at night. "I would start in the morning at 6am, and (after filming) I would go into the hospital because my son was very sick and they said he was going to die, so I spent three weeks sleeping in the hospital while I was shooting this film," he said. Needless to say, when the film's original investor threw out the film's negative, amounting to 30 cans of film stock, he was devastated. There was no easy way to recover the footage in those days, so, with everything else going on in his life, he felt he had little choice but to shelve the project. Despite his extremely grave condition, Shaun continued to fight. Three years later, he received a heart transplant. It would buy him almost 10 more years of time with his family, but he ultimately lost his battle to the disease in 2012. One year prior to his death, Cameron showed Shaun a DVD containing footage he had shot for the film. "He said, 'Dad, you, you've actually got to finish this. This is very funny... a lot of people will like this.' Starring comedian Chris Franklin, the film tells the story of a builder's labourer and amateur comedian who rises to fame in Australia, then heads to Hollywood to try and make it big. Franklin and a number of the film's other stars and cameo performers, includ Corey Feldman, Krista Vendy, Fiona O'Laughlin and AFL great Warwick Capper, have donated their salaries to the Shaun Miller Foundation. Picking up work on a film that had been abandoned 25 years earlier was no easy feat. After getting Franklin to reprise his role, Mr Miller had to use artificial intelligence and 30 years later sequences to combine old and new footage and bring the story to its conclusion. "It's got that (The) Castle feel, so it's very, very Australian and that's what Shaun loved about it." The film is set for completion by the end of August. Mr Miller is planning a theatrical release early next year. Share your thoughts in the comments below, or send a Letter to the Editor by CLICKING HERE. Filmmaker Cameron Miller felt he had nowhere to go after his son's death of congenital heart disease at the age of 17. Mr Miller, 54, is hoping money raised from his latest film, a project that has been a quarter of a century in the making, will fund a place that offers respite to other parents who find themselves in the same agonising position he found himself in after he lost Shaun in 2012. "After I lost Shaun, I went through quite an amount of grief and, sort of, you know, had a bit of a breakdown and stuff, and what I realised is we need to have a place for parents," he said. "I'm hoping that if this film's successful, we can build the first Shaun Miller House... (A place) where they (parents) can go after grieving their child, because there's, there's nowhere to go. "They just give you a box of their things and say, 'See you later', and you're out the door." Read more from The Senior Prior to his death, Shaun had urged Mr Miller to complete Yesterday's Hero, a film he first started working on 25 years ago. Those early days of production marked an extremely trying time for Mr Miller. As he worked tirelessly on the film during the day, his cast and crew had no idea he was tending to his seriously ill son, then just five years old, at night. "I would start in the morning at 6am, and (after filming) I would go into the hospital because my son was very sick and they said he was going to die, so I spent three weeks sleeping in the hospital while I was shooting this film," he said. Needless to say, when the film's original investor threw out the film's negative, amounting to 30 cans of film stock, he was devastated. There was no easy way to recover the footage in those days, so, with everything else going on in his life, he felt he had little choice but to shelve the project. Despite his extremely grave condition, Shaun continued to fight. Three years later, he received a heart transplant. It would buy him almost 10 more years of time with his family, but he ultimately lost his battle to the disease in 2012. One year prior to his death, Cameron showed Shaun a DVD containing footage he had shot for the film. "He said, 'Dad, you, you've actually got to finish this. This is very funny... a lot of people will like this.' Starring comedian Chris Franklin, the film tells the story of a builder's labourer and amateur comedian who rises to fame in Australia, then heads to Hollywood to try and make it big. Franklin and a number of the film's other stars and cameo performers, includ Corey Feldman, Krista Vendy, Fiona O'Laughlin and AFL great Warwick Capper, have donated their salaries to the Shaun Miller Foundation. Picking up work on a film that had been abandoned 25 years earlier was no easy feat. After getting Franklin to reprise his role, Mr Miller had to use artificial intelligence and 30 years later sequences to combine old and new footage and bring the story to its conclusion. "It's got that (The) Castle feel, so it's very, very Australian and that's what Shaun loved about it." The film is set for completion by the end of August. Mr Miller is planning a theatrical release early next year. Share your thoughts in the comments below, or send a Letter to the Editor by CLICKING HERE. Filmmaker Cameron Miller felt he had nowhere to go after his son's death of congenital heart disease at the age of 17. Mr Miller, 54, is hoping money raised from his latest film, a project that has been a quarter of a century in the making, will fund a place that offers respite to other parents who find themselves in the same agonising position he found himself in after he lost Shaun in 2012. "After I lost Shaun, I went through quite an amount of grief and, sort of, you know, had a bit of a breakdown and stuff, and what I realised is we need to have a place for parents," he said. "I'm hoping that if this film's successful, we can build the first Shaun Miller House... (A place) where they (parents) can go after grieving their child, because there's, there's nowhere to go. "They just give you a box of their things and say, 'See you later', and you're out the door." Read more from The Senior Prior to his death, Shaun had urged Mr Miller to complete Yesterday's Hero, a film he first started working on 25 years ago. Those early days of production marked an extremely trying time for Mr Miller. As he worked tirelessly on the film during the day, his cast and crew had no idea he was tending to his seriously ill son, then just five years old, at night. "I would start in the morning at 6am, and (after filming) I would go into the hospital because my son was very sick and they said he was going to die, so I spent three weeks sleeping in the hospital while I was shooting this film," he said. Needless to say, when the film's original investor threw out the film's negative, amounting to 30 cans of film stock, he was devastated. There was no easy way to recover the footage in those days, so, with everything else going on in his life, he felt he had little choice but to shelve the project. Despite his extremely grave condition, Shaun continued to fight. Three years later, he received a heart transplant. It would buy him almost 10 more years of time with his family, but he ultimately lost his battle to the disease in 2012. One year prior to his death, Cameron showed Shaun a DVD containing footage he had shot for the film. "He said, 'Dad, you, you've actually got to finish this. This is very funny... a lot of people will like this.' Starring comedian Chris Franklin, the film tells the story of a builder's labourer and amateur comedian who rises to fame in Australia, then heads to Hollywood to try and make it big. Franklin and a number of the film's other stars and cameo performers, includ Corey Feldman, Krista Vendy, Fiona O'Laughlin and AFL great Warwick Capper, have donated their salaries to the Shaun Miller Foundation. Picking up work on a film that had been abandoned 25 years earlier was no easy feat. After getting Franklin to reprise his role, Mr Miller had to use artificial intelligence and 30 years later sequences to combine old and new footage and bring the story to its conclusion. "It's got that (The) Castle feel, so it's very, very Australian and that's what Shaun loved about it." The film is set for completion by the end of August. Mr Miller is planning a theatrical release early next year. Share your thoughts in the comments below, or send a Letter to the Editor by CLICKING HERE. Filmmaker Cameron Miller felt he had nowhere to go after his son's death of congenital heart disease at the age of 17. Mr Miller, 54, is hoping money raised from his latest film, a project that has been a quarter of a century in the making, will fund a place that offers respite to other parents who find themselves in the same agonising position he found himself in after he lost Shaun in 2012. "After I lost Shaun, I went through quite an amount of grief and, sort of, you know, had a bit of a breakdown and stuff, and what I realised is we need to have a place for parents," he said. "I'm hoping that if this film's successful, we can build the first Shaun Miller House... (A place) where they (parents) can go after grieving their child, because there's, there's nowhere to go. "They just give you a box of their things and say, 'See you later', and you're out the door." Read more from The Senior Prior to his death, Shaun had urged Mr Miller to complete Yesterday's Hero, a film he first started working on 25 years ago. Those early days of production marked an extremely trying time for Mr Miller. As he worked tirelessly on the film during the day, his cast and crew had no idea he was tending to his seriously ill son, then just five years old, at night. "I would start in the morning at 6am, and (after filming) I would go into the hospital because my son was very sick and they said he was going to die, so I spent three weeks sleeping in the hospital while I was shooting this film," he said. Needless to say, when the film's original investor threw out the film's negative, amounting to 30 cans of film stock, he was devastated. There was no easy way to recover the footage in those days, so, with everything else going on in his life, he felt he had little choice but to shelve the project. Despite his extremely grave condition, Shaun continued to fight. Three years later, he received a heart transplant. It would buy him almost 10 more years of time with his family, but he ultimately lost his battle to the disease in 2012. One year prior to his death, Cameron showed Shaun a DVD containing footage he had shot for the film. "He said, 'Dad, you, you've actually got to finish this. This is very funny... a lot of people will like this.' Starring comedian Chris Franklin, the film tells the story of a builder's labourer and amateur comedian who rises to fame in Australia, then heads to Hollywood to try and make it big. Franklin and a number of the film's other stars and cameo performers, includ Corey Feldman, Krista Vendy, Fiona O'Laughlin and AFL great Warwick Capper, have donated their salaries to the Shaun Miller Foundation. Picking up work on a film that had been abandoned 25 years earlier was no easy feat. After getting Franklin to reprise his role, Mr Miller had to use artificial intelligence and 30 years later sequences to combine old and new footage and bring the story to its conclusion. "It's got that (The) Castle feel, so it's very, very Australian and that's what Shaun loved about it." The film is set for completion by the end of August. Mr Miller is planning a theatrical release early next year. Share your thoughts in the comments below, or send a Letter to the Editor by CLICKING HERE.
Daily Mail
19-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Footy champ Brendan Fevola announces shock career move with starring role in feature film
Famed Australian footy star Brendan Fevola is set to make his movie debut. The former AFL champ, 44, will step before the cameras on Tuesday for the new Australian feature film Yesterday's Hero. Produced by Victorian filmmaker Cameron Miller the 1980s set film follows the rise to fame of an labourer who launches a career as a comedian. No details about Brendan's role have emerged, however the Herald Sun reported on Monday that the fan favourite will be sharing scenes with another former AFL great Warwick Capper. The publication said that the pair will travel to Melbourne 's Lalor Football Club to shoot their big screen moment. The cast also includes US actor Corey Feldman and former Neighbours actor Krista Vendy and comedian Chris Franklin. Yesterday's Hero is being made as a tribute to Miller's son, Shaun who died in 2012 from congenital heart disease (CHD), twelve years after the filmmaker started shooting the the film. Miller later founded the Shaun Miller Foundation for CHD sufferers. It comes after Brendan shocked his Fox FM co-stars in march when he revealed he would be stepping away from the program. The celebrity footy star told listeners he would be competing on the upcoming season of Channel Ten 's The Amazing Race and would be absent for some time. 'I'm leaving the show... not for good, though,' he began. 'I got an opportunity last year to do something with my 18-year-old daughter Leni - to travel the world on the TV show The Amazing Race! So, I won't be on the show as of Monday.' Co-host Fifi Box then wished Brendan all the best and asked if he had any idea when he would be returning. 'I could be away for a couple of days, a couple of weeks, depends on when I get eliminated... I am not worried about the race, I am worried about whether Leni and I punch on or not. That could be our elimination,' he joked. Brendan has co-hosted the top-rating Fox Melbourne breakfast show since April 2016. In October, Brendan teased fans about a massive career change. The Carlton Football club legend said he was itching to get back into footy as a coach. His shock announcement came after he spent a day training with Collingwood's AFLW team. 'It makes me wanna be a coach,' an emotional Fevola told his co-hosts Fifi Box and Nick Cody at the time 'You wouldn't understand how much I loved it,' he said. 'I was up and about all day yesterday. I haven't trained for any of the teams I've played for in the last 14 years, not once.' Fevola, who rose to fame as a top goal kicker for the Carlton Football Club's AFL premier side in the early 2000s, said he was originally asked along to the training session by Collingwood CEO Craig Kelly. Fevola, who rose to fame as a top goal kicker for the Carlton Football Club's AFL premier side in the early 2000s, said he was originally asked along to the training session by Collingwood CEO Craig Kelly.
