THE cameras will begin rolling this week on Underbelly Files: Tell Them Lucifer Was Here, the emotion-charged story of the killing of policemen Rod Miller and Gary Silk. Developed by Screentime, producers of ratings juggernaut Underbelly, the Channel 9 telemovie will explore, in vivid detail, how Bandali Debs and his young accomplice Jason Roberts carried out the horrific crime in Moorabbin in 1998 and how police made their stunning breakthrough in the case following an exhaustive investigation.
The telemovie, the first of three Underbelly telemovies to be filmed this year, will feature former Home And Away regular Paul O'Brien as Sen-Constable Miller and Daniel Whyte as Sgt Silk.
Head of the investigation detective Supt Paul Sheridan will be played by former A Country Practice and Flying Doctors star Brett Climo, while another former Home and Away actor, Todd Lasance, has signed to play detective Sgt Dean Thomas.
Cast in the roles of the killers are Greg Stone (Debs) and Dimitri Baveas (Roberts). Debs' wife Dorothy is being played by former Neighbours regular Annie Jones and the role of Miller's widow, Carmel Arthur, has been won by ex-Blue Heeler Jane Allsop.
The telemovie will reveal how, on a cold Saturday night in August 1998, Silk and Miller were shot dead in a street as they staked out the Silky Emperor restaurant.
They were investigating armed robberies in an operation police dubbed Hamada.
The Lorimer Taskforce nailed Debs and Roberts after two years of investigation.
Work will later begin on Infiltration, a telemovie chronicling the story of Victorian cop Colin McClaren, who risked his life by infiltrating the local arm of the Calabrian mafia.
The third Underbelly film, The Man Who Got Away, recounts the tale of British-Australian drug smuggler David McMillan.
(Picture) - Actor Brett Climo is one of the stars who will begin filming for the new Underbelly telemovie.
