Sam Poo was raised from obscurity when he was fictionalised as Lam Yut Soon in David Martin's novel The Hero of Too (1965).[22] Since then, Circus Oz created a show about Poo in 1993,[23] Christopher Stitt wrote a children's novel about Poo in 2003,[24] and in 2014 Robert Macklin and Chinese-born film producer Cindy Jia Li teamed up to create Aodaliya Gold, a movie about Poo and in the same year the trailer for the movie was released.[25] In 2015, film companies from Canberra, JIA Films and SilverSun Pictures partnered with Yuezhong Pictures from China to create Aodaliya Gold with the budget of $15 million.[26]