{"id":41082,"date":"2026-02-05T08:19:24","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T13:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=41082"},"modified":"2026-02-05T08:19:30","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T13:19:30","slug":"the-convert-2023-directed-by-lee-tamahori-starring-guy-pearce-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=41082","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Convert&#8221; (2023) directed by Lee Tamahori, starring Guy Pearce \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2026\/z020526zview_convert.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"692\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Convert <\/strong><\/em>(2023)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director:<strong> Lee Tamahori<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Shane Danielsen, Lee Tamahori;\u00a0<\/strong>story by<strong> Michael Bennett<\/strong>; based on <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/4anxH86\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WULF<\/a> by <strong>Hamish Clayton<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Guy Pearce, Tioreore Ngatai-Melbourne, Antonio Te Maioha, Jacqueline McKenzie, Lawrence Makoare, Dean O&#8217;Gorman <\/strong>and <strong>Duane Evans Jr.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>A fight for peace. A heart at war.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">1830s.\u00a0 Thomas Munro, a British preacher is sent to New Zealand to spread the word.\u00a0 When Munro arrives he finds\u00a0 two M\u0101ori tribes at war.\u00a0 Munro realizes the British traders are profiting from the tribe&#8217;s war.\u00a0 When Munro&#8217;s efforts to bring peace are rejected, he finds himself taking sides.\u00a0 Munro&#8217;s faith is tested as he reverts to the violent man he was in the past.<\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Guy Pearce is always solid.<\/p>\n<p>It was cool to see how the title plays into the story.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em><strong>The Convert <\/strong><\/em>(2023) rates 3 of 5 stars.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_c.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2026\/z020526zview_convert2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Convert (2023) Director: Lee Tamahori Screenplay: Shane Danielsen, Lee Tamahori;\u00a0story by Michael Bennett; based on WULF by Hamish Clayton<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41082"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41083,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41082\/revisions\/41083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}