Model's death subject of script Father has made journal available Underbelly team writing telemovie THE creative team behind TV phenomenon Underbelly is busy writing the script for a telemovie based on the death of Sydney model Caroline Byrne, more than 13 years after the event.
Convinced his daughter was pushed and didn't jump from the top of The Gap in Sydney on June 7, 1995, Tony Byrne made available his personal journal for the haunting made-for-TV movie, which details his pursuit of Caroline's killer.
With the working title of The Killing Of Caroline Byrne, Underbelly executive producer and Screentime Australia director Des Monaghan says Mr Byrne's intimate memoirs will be coupled with author Robert Wainwright's book of the same name for the telemovie.
While Monaghan was keeping casting details close to his chest, it is expected the telemovie, commissioned by Channel 10, would begin filming as early as June.
However, this depends on an appeal by Gordon Wood, Caroline's boyfriend who was convicted of her murder and sentenced to 17 years jail in November.
Ten's chief programming officer David Mott said with Underbelly giving viewers a taste for crime, it was time to bring a "very Sydney story" to the small screen.
