Production has begun on a new Stan Original cold case crime series “The Killings: Parrish Station”, in collaboration with ITV Studios, starring Mia Wasikowska, Heather Mitchell, Robert Taylor, and Xavier Samuel.
Produced by HELIUM Pictures, with the support of Screen Australia and Screen NSW, “The Killings: Parrish Station” is a cosmic mystery intertwined with horror, as a gruesome massacre at a remote research station plunges Detective Georgia Cooke into an inexplicable, decades-long mystery.
Wasikowska, best known for the 2010 film “Alice in Wonderland”, plays Cooke, who is called in to investigate the brutal murders of four scientists at the station in 1987, with a lone survivor the obvious suspect. But she as digs deeper, unravelling a case entangled in mania, ritual, and the occult, her obsession for the truth spirals into a nightmare that puts her family, career, and sanity on the line.
37 years later, a new spree of murders will pull Cooke, then played by Heather Mitchell (“The Narrow Road to the Deep North”, “Love Me”, “Fake”), back into the nightmare to confront the possibilities that what happened at the station was never fully buried.
“The Killings: Parrish Station” has been created and written by Ben Jenkins, best known for “The Chaser” and “The Checkout”, alongside writer and story producer Tim Pye (“Bali 2002), writers Yolanda Ramke (“Cargo”) and Cathering Smyth-McMullen (“The Sandman”), and director Daniel Nattheim (“The Tourist”, “The Assassin”).
“The Killings: Parrish Station is a striking addition to the Stan Originals slate, a bold and distinctive series that pushes the boundaries of Australian drama. It is a testament to creative storytelling at its best, led by the visionary creator Ben Jenkins, who has masterfully woven together a cosmic-horror-meets-cold-case tale,” said Nine Entertainment’s executive director of entertainment content commissioning, Michael Healy.
“The series captures the very essence of creative edge and originality that defines Stan’s commitment to groundbreaking content and marks our first collaboration with HELIUM, whose creative vision has been invaluable in bringing this project to life.”
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It sees the coming together of some of Australia’s most acclaimed creative talent, with HELIUM’s executive producer Mark Fennessy (“Last King of the Cross”, “Lambs of God”), Stan executive producers Donna Chang and Andy Ryan, and producer Kerrie Mainwaring (“Bali 2002”) also on the bill.
Fennessy said: “We’re incredibly proud of this haunting and deeply human story — a gripping, time-spanning thriller with compelling female leads told across two timelines with the scale and suspense of ‘True Detective’ and the bite of ‘Yellowjackets’. Set against the vast emptiness of the outback, it’s a tale about what we bury, what we choose to forget, and what refuses to stay hidden.”
Alongside Wasikowska and Mitchell, the cast includes Xavier Samuel (“Blonde”, “Elvis”), Robert Taylor (“Longmire”, “Scrublands”), Alan Dale (“The Assassin”, “Star Trek: Nemesis”, “Dynasty”), Emma Lung (“Wolf Like Me”, “Strife”), Doris Younane (“Five Bedrooms”, “Last King of the Cross”), Kat Hoyos (“Amazing Grace”, “Here Come The Habibs!”), Nic English (“Ten Pound Poms”), Alex Malone (“The Royal Hotel”), Geoff Morrell (“Thou Shalt Not Steal”, “Wolf Like Me”), Rob Carlton (“Black Snow”, “Chandon Pictures”), Alex Lee (“Optics”, “The Fall Guy”), Cameron James (“The Role of a Lifetime”), and newcomer Grace Owens.
The series is now in production, and is due to premiere on Stan in 2026.