Romper Stomper (TV series)

Romper Stomper is an Australian television drama series that was released on video streaming service Stan on 1 January 2018. It is created as a sequel to the 1992 film of the same name and is set 25 years after the events in the film. The six-part series follows a new generation of fictional far-left activists and their far-right counterparts, with the story focusing on a fictional far-right anti-Islamic group led by Blake Farron (Lachy Hulme) known as Patriot Blue. Jacqueline McKenzie, Dan Wyllie and John Brumpton reprise their roles from the original film.

The series is produced by John Edwards and Dan Edwards for Roadshow Rough Diamond. The original film's director, Geoffrey Wright, directs two episodes, alongside fellow directors Daina Reid and James Napier Robertson. The series was commissioned by Stan in January 2017, and was filmed in Melbourne across 9 weeks in August.

Cast

 * Toby Wallace as Kane, a young man who becomes involved with the Patriot Blue group
 * Jacqueline McKenzie as Gabrielle Jordan, Kane's mother
 * Dan Wyllie as Vic/Cackles
 * John Brumpton as Magoo
 * Lachy Hulme as Blake Farron, leader of right-wing group Patriot Blue
 * Sophie Lowe as Zoe, Farron's wife
 * David Wenham as Jago Zoric, a right-wing talk-show host
 * Jeremy Lindsay Taylor as Marco, an Australian Federal Police officer who is having an affair with Gabe
 * Markella Kavenagh as Cindi, Kane's stepsister who escapes from juvenile detention
 * Nicole Chamoun as Laila Taheer, a young law student
 * Julian Maroun as Farid, Laila's boyfriend
 * Jamie Abdallah as Malik, Farid's brother, an MMA fighter
 * Lily Sullivan as Petra, a leader of the anti-fascist group Antifasc
 * Louis Corbett as Tomas, a member of Antifasc
 * Tysan Towney as Danny, a lead member of Antifasc
 * Kaden Hartcher as Stix, Kane's friend
 * Philip Hayden as McKew, Laila's university lecturer who is involved with Antifasc

Release
All six episodes of the series became available on Stan on 1 January 2018. International broadcast rights for the series covering Asia, parts of Europe, Latin America and northern Africa were sold to SundanceTV Global.