The Dead Lands

23rd January 2020

The Dead Lands is a 8-part TV series from writer Glenn Standring based on his movie The Dead Lands (2014).

It tells the story of murdered Māori warrior Waka Nuku Rau who has been sent back to the world of the living to redeem his sins. But the world Waka returns to is ravaged by the supernatural, as the spirits of the newly dead now stalk the land and hunt the living. Waka and a young woman named Mehe must find a way to repair their broken world.