Paramount’s newest blockbuster, Last King of the Cross, is based on John Ibrahim’s memoir and stars Tim Roth as a crime boss. Set in Sydney’s ‘mecca of sin’ – Kings Cross in the ’80s – production company Helium Pictures was tasked with recreating these mean streets as they were, bristling with strip joints and sex shops, smack dealers, bikies and brutality.
Enter Sam Hobbs and Alien Proof Construction, the dream team who built the strip from the gutter up, complete with aged gum blistering the pavements and headache-inducing glitching neon. An epic build on a hectic schedule, this consisted of recreating 200m of Kings Cross in the car park of Wet & Wild in Prospect.
Here are some behind-the-scenes shots, courtesy of Bunkerman Studios.
Last King of the Cross is streaming on Paramount+ Australia.