LONDON (Hollywood Reporter) - British actor Ray Winstone is travelling to New Zealand to star in manhunt thriller "Tracker."

Winstone stars alongside Temuera Morrison, a Kiwi native who starred in "Once Were Warriors" and the second and third instalments of the "Star Wars" franchise.

Set in 1903, "Tracker" centres on a guerrilla survivor of the South African Boer War who lands in colonial New Zealand and is promised a bounty to capture Kereama, a Maori seafarer accused of killing a British soldier.

The film is being directed by Ian Sharp from a script by the late Nicolas van Pallandt, who died of cancer two years ago. "Tracker" marks the first of van Pallandt's feature scripts to be produced.

(Editing by SheriLinden at Reuters)

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