Akin Omotoso, the filmmaker behind Disney Plus’ Giannis Antetokounmpo biopic “Rise,” has been attached to direct “The Plot to Save South Africa,” an adaptation of Justice Malala’s gripping book about a 1990s white supremacist plot that almost plunged the young democracy into civil war.
“The Plot to Save South Africa” will be produced by Johannesburg-based production outfit Ochre Moving Pictures, which signed a deal with Netflix last year to adapt multiple books for the streaming service alongside Omotoso. “Plot,” however, is not included in that deal, and is part of an existing partnership between Ochre and Omotoso that includes a crime drama adaptation of Nigerian playwright Femi Osofisan’s novel “Pirates.”
The story begins in 1993, as Nelson Mandela has just been released after 27 years in prison and is in power-sharing talks with President F.W. de Klerk. After decades of resistance, the apartheid regime seems poised to fall, until a...
“The Plot to Save South Africa” will be produced by Johannesburg-based production outfit Ochre Moving Pictures, which signed a deal with Netflix last year to adapt multiple books for the streaming service alongside Omotoso. “Plot,” however, is not included in that deal, and is part of an existing partnership between Ochre and Omotoso that includes a crime drama adaptation of Nigerian playwright Femi Osofisan’s novel “Pirates.”
The story begins in 1993, as Nelson Mandela has just been released after 27 years in prison and is in power-sharing talks with President F.W. de Klerk. After decades of resistance, the apartheid regime seems poised to fall, until a...
- 2/29/2024
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
Filmmaker Akin Omotoso’s latest film Vaya first premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2016 to critical praise and continued to make its rounds around the festival circuit and earned him the Africa Movie Academy Award for Best Director before landing at Ava DuVernay’s Array. The film is set for a screening tour and a simultaneous Netflix release today but none of this would have never happened because Omotoso initially wanted to be…a lawyer.
Omotoso tells Deadline with a laugh that while in school his guidance counselors said, “You like to argue a lot, so maybe you should be a lawyer, so I had this thing in my head that I was gonna be a lawyer.”
“When I look back now, I just feel like I would have been a very unhappy lawyer,” he admits.
Born in Nigeria, Omotoso moved to South Africa and despite having his...
Omotoso tells Deadline with a laugh that while in school his guidance counselors said, “You like to argue a lot, so maybe you should be a lawyer, so I had this thing in my head that I was gonna be a lawyer.”
“When I look back now, I just feel like I would have been a very unhappy lawyer,” he admits.
Born in Nigeria, Omotoso moved to South Africa and despite having his...
- 11/2/2018
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
His acclaimed crime drama Man On Ground, traveled the international film festival circuit, winning over audiences and critics alike throughout its journey, after its premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2011 in the Contemporary World Cinema category. However, it's unfortunately not yet widely available on home video platforms. While we wait for news of availability, Nigerian writer/director Akin Omotoso is going into production on his next feature film project, a romantic comedy titled Tell Me Sweet Something, which will be produced by Robbie Thorpe (who produced the South African box office hit...
- 5/8/2014
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
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