 After that film's success, Hollywood beckoned and he made a string of movies with big stars. Morgan Freeman, Alec Baldwin and Anthony Hopkins, and the Bond film Die Another Day with Piers Brosnan. The Convert is the third film in a trilogy which documents three historical periods in the development of Maori culture, told in reverse. Once Were Warriors was about the aftereffects of colonialism on a modern-day New Zealand family. The 2016 film Mahana focused on the post-war era.