The Royal Hotel

The Royal Hotel (2023)

A fun adventure is all they wanted.

After running out of money while backpacking in a tiny, male-dominated town in the Australian outback, two friends resort to a working holiday at the Royal Hotel. When the locals' behavior starts crossing the line, the girls find themselves trapped in an unnerving situation that grows rapidly out of their control.

Date of release
2023-10-06
TMDB
5.4 / 10 (292)
Runtime
1h 31m
Genres
Drama, Thriller
Director
Kitty Green

Casting

Interesting facts

The Royal Hotel is a 2023 Australian psychological thriller film directed by Kitty Green, who co-wrote the screenplay with Oscar Redding. The film stars Julia Garner, Jessica Henwick, Toby Wallace, and Hugo Weaving. It is inspired by the 2016 documentary Hotel Coolgardie by Pete Gleeson.

Production

Kitty Green co-wrote the script with Oscar Redding, inspired by Pete Gleeson's 2016 documentary Hotel Coolgardie, which chronicles two young Finnish female backpackers who face misogyny while working as barmaids at a pub in the mining town of Coolgardie, Western Australia. Production comes from See-Saw Films through producers Emile Sherman, Iain Canning and Liz Watts along with Scarlett Pictures' Kath Shelper.

Hugo Weaving and Jessica Henwick joined the cast in April 2022. Toby Wallace was confirmed to have joined the cast in August 2022.

Principal photography took place in the town of Yatina and other areas around South Australia in August 2022. A disused bar in Yatina, a town with a population of 29, was used for The Royal Hotel. While the upstairs living area of the building was used for filming, scenes of the bar on the ground floor were shot on a separate stage.

Filming took place over 21 days. Green and cinematographer Michael Latham storyboarded many of the scenes prior to filming.

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