Cultural depictions of Ned Kelly movie's closing credits. The Australian band The Kelly Gang formed in 2002, consisting of Jack Nolan, Scott Aplin, Rick Grossman (bassist for Hoodoo Gurus) and Rob Hirst (drummer for Midnight Oil). They recorded one album, "Looking for the Sun" (2004), which features Sidney Nolan's 1945 painting "Kelly in the Bush" on the cover. Other songs about Ned Kelly include those by Paul Kelly ("Our Sunshine" (1999)), Slim Dusty ("Game as Ned Kelly" and "Ned Kelly Isn't Dead"), Ashley Davies ("Ned Kelly" (2001)), Waylon Jennings ("Ned Kelly" (1970)), Redgum ("Poor Ned" (1978)), Midnight Oil ("If Ned Kelly Was King" (1983)), The
Cultural depictions of Ned Kelly That same year (2003) a low budget satire movie called "Ned" was released. Written, directed and starring Abe Forsythe, it depicted the Kelly gang wearing fake beards and tin buckets on their heads. A film adaptation of Peter Carey's novel "True History of the Kelly Gang" is currently in production, with Justin Kurzel serving as director. The cast includes George MacKay as Ned Kelly and Russell Crowe as Harry Power, Kelly's mentor in bushranging. Ian Jones and the late Bronwyn Binns wrote a script for a four-part television mini-series, "The Last Outlaw" (1980), which they co-produced. The series premiered on