EXCLUSIVE: Raven Banner Entertainment has boarded motion thriller Trigger (Topakk), directed by the Philippines’ Richard Somes, to govt produce and deal with worldwide gross sales.
Currently in manufacturing, the movie stars Arjo Atayde (Cattleya Killer), Julia Montes (Brothers), Sid Lucero (The End Of History) and Kokoy De Santos (Game Boy).
Wilfredo C. Manalang of Philippines manufacturing home Fusee is producing the movie with Somes’ Strawdogs Studio Production, Ria Atayde and Sylvia Sanchez for Nathan Studios and Michaelangelo Masangkay and Fernando Henna for Toronto-based submit sound home, Theo & Atlas Productions Inc.
Atayde performs a safety guard beforehand discharged from the army attributable to post-traumatic stress dysfunction. He finds himself embroiled in a special sort of conflict when a younger lady (Montes) seeks his safety in opposition to a corrupt police dying squad.
Fusee beforehand co-produced Japanese drama Plan 75, which is Japan’s submission to the most effective worldwide characteristic class of the Oscars. The firm additionally has a various slate of motion movies and arthouse dramas in growth.
Somes’ directing credit embody motion pic We Will Not Die Tonight (2018). He can be an award-winning manufacturing designer who has labored on movies and sequence together with Erik Matti’s On The Job.
Manalang defined that Trigger is a part of a push to ramp up manufacturing of motion films within the Philippines, the place the native business focuses on romantic dramas, with a couple of notable exceptions equivalent to Matti’s work.
“We’re excited to bring a new kind of action film from the Philippines. There were a lot of action movies in the early part of our film history, but the country has shied away from them for a long time,” stated Manalang.
“Topakk is hopefully a spark to reignite a trend in such films coming out of Southeast Asia. With our partnership with Raven Banner, we’re hoping to do just that.”
Trigger is scheduled to be prepared for supply within the first quarter of 2023.
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