Cultural depictions of Ned Kelly Products manufactured a die-cast "Ned Kelly" repeating cap pistol, which was widely marketed in the mid-1940s. Its design bore no obvious attempt at historic relevance. The distinctive homemade armour Kelly wore for his final unsuccessful stand against the police was the subject of a famous series of paintings by Sidney Nolan. Ned Kelly is a recurring theme in the work of Ha-Ha (Regan Tamanui), one of Melbourne's foremost street artists. Since 2002, he has put up many stencils of Ned Kelly's face in the laneways of Melbourne, which have become an icon of Melbourne street art. He described Kelly as
Justin Kurzel was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival. In 2016, Kurzel directed "Assassin's Creed" (2016), based on the video game franchise of the same name. Kurzel is currently working on a film adaptation of "True History of the Kelly Gang", Peter Carey's 2001 Man Booker Prize-winning novel written from the viewpoint of legendary Australian bushranger and outlaw Ned Kelly. Justin Kurzel Justin Dallas Kurzel (born 3 August 1974) is an Australian film director and screenwriter. Kurzel was born in Gawler, South Australia to a family of immigrant roots, his father hailing from Poland and