Three series. Six films. Five docos. Get a first-look at all 14 just-announced Originals coming to Stan this year.
PICTURED ABOVE: Stan Original film The Beast in Me.
Marking a decade of streaming entertainment, Stan has just announced 14 freshly commissioned Originals. These titles include three drama series, six feature films, and five documentaries.
(This doesn’t even include brand new acquisitions like Amanda Seyfried-starring crime series Long Bright River, Oscar-nominated films like Memoir of a Snail, or all the upcoming sports events coming to Stan.)
Here’s what you can look forward to with this year’s Stan Original titles.
Original series
In Love Divided by Eleven, Black Snow star Brooke Satchwell plays a woman reeling from the death of her fiancé. Attempting to wrestle with her grief, she goes looking for the recipients of his organs, finding and making connections she could never have anticipated.
A drunken bit of activism turns into a frantic mission to cover tracks in He Had It Coming. Lydia West of Big Mood fame plays an awkward bagpipes-playing student opposite Natasha Liu Bordizzo (Ahsoka) as an all-talk-no-action influencer who, beyond all odds, team up to deface a statue of the university’s male founder. Next morning, a star athlete turns up dead at the foot of their “art project.”
A fading country town must survive the Gnome-apocalypse in tongue-in-cheek series Gnomes. The story centres on two former partners (both in the professional and personal sense) who arrive to shut down their beloved police station. They couldn’t predict an ancient evil would break loose and bring the town’s gnome population to life.
Original films
Natalie Erika James, writer-director of 2020’s Relic and 2024’s Apartment 7A, returns with queer-themed body horror Saccharine. Midori Francis (Lily from Dash & Lily) plays a lovelorn medical student who succumbs to a fringe weight-loss diet fad—consuming human ashes—and is haunted by the person she’s eating.
Abbie Cornish (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri) and Alyla Browne (Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga) lead family heartwarmer Whale Shark Jack. Echoing 2022’s lovely Blueback, the story follows a young girl determined to save her best friend – a whale shark named Jack.
The Entertainment System is Down is the latest from the Oscar-nominated filmmaker behind Triangle of Sadness, The Square, and Force Majeure. Daniel Brühl, Woody Harrelson, Kirsten Dunst and Keanu Reeves all star in this film revolving around a truly horrifying situation—being bored on a long-haul flight with no entertainment system.
One More Shot puts Emily Browning (American Gods) in a Y2K time loop. She plays a young woman who, thanks to a bottle of time travelling tequila, is able to replay her New Year’s Eve with every shot. But there’s only so many shots in a bottle…
Daniel MacPherson (Foundation) stars alongside Luke Hemsworth and the mighty Russell Crowe in The Beast in Me. MacPherson plays a family man who left the world of mixed martial arts behind. However, heavy financial pressures and a severely injured brother forces the fighter back into the cage.
The Bump family return in Bump: A Christmas Film, which takes place between episodes nine and ten of the fifth and final season. With Angie alive and well and Santi and Oly’s second baby Angelo just a couple of months old, the family’s hopes for a festive Christmas reunion, showcasing the beauty and warmth of Colombian traditions.
Original documentaries
Zyzz & Chestbrah: The Poster Boys charts the rise of influential bodybuilding duo Aziz and Said. The pair amassed a juggernaut following through their alter egos Zyzz and Chestbrah, but the pursuit of perfection comes with a heavy price, and when Zyzz tragically passes, Chestbrah is left to contemplate a complex legacy.
A criminal case that spurred global headlines, Death Cap follows the investigation into the death of family members poisoned by deadly mushrooms. I’m sure you’ve come across a headline or two about this one. Now you can get the full story.
Four-part doco Into the Night combines the talents of Katrina McGowan, director of How to Poison a Planet, with Janine Hoskings, director of A Horse Named Winx. Don’t know much about this one, but it promises to examine “one of Australia’s most baffling crimes” that “poses the question – how far would you go to solve a loved one’s murder?”
Craig Bellamy: Inside the Storm follows the kingly NRL coach as he aims to lead the Melbourne Storm to ultimate success in the 2024 season. The doco contains a wealth of interviews from the likes of Tottenham football manager Ange Postecoglu, Collingwood Magpies head coach Craig McRae, and living league legend Andrew Johns.
One of Australia’s most controversial leaders gets put under the microscope in Joh: Last King of Queensland. Occupying the Sunshine State—and Queenslanders’ hearts—for almost two decades, Joh’s rise soon turned into a downfall that involved a web of corruption and locking himself in his office.
