Amazon Prime is Resurrecting an Australian Mystery in ‘Picnic at Hanging Rock’

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Amazon Prime is Resurrecting an Australian Mystery in ‘Picnic at Hanging Rock’

This May, Amazon Prime, and an all-star cast are headed to the Australian bush to tell one of the most famous stories in Australian history, Picnic at Hanging Rock. The six-part miniseries depicts the disappearance of three girls and their schoolteacher in the remote Australian wilderness.
Based on the eponymous 1967 novel of the same name, Picnic at Hanging Rock has long been a celebrated part of Australian culture. The book is presented as a true crime tale that begins 1900. While on a picnic a short distance from their remote boarding school, three young girls, and their math teacher took a hike around Hanging Rock. They were never seen again.
The miniseries follows the subsequent search for the young girls and the social and political fallout that occurs in the wake of the event.

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