Stuart Beattie is keeping things local. The Australian "Australia" co-writer is readying his directorial debut, an adaptation of the young-adult novel "
Tomorrow, When the War Began" for an Aussie-centric production this year. Beattie also wrote the screenplay.
"Tomorrow" is the first novel in a popular series of seven written by Australian John Marsden and published from 1994-99. The Tomorrow Series, as it is known, details the insurgency efforts of a band of Aussie teenagers fighting off an enemy invasion and occupation of their homeland.