Title Wole Soyinka
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Coming on wings of preserving Nigeria’s culture and extolling the heroes, Nigeria filmmaker and director, Joshua Ojo has disclosed that Wole Soyinka, a bi0pic on the life and strides of legendary Nobel Laureate will be hitting cinema soon.
The movie, which took over a year to produce, has been described as ‘right on time’ by the producer of the film, Joshua Ojo.
Speaking during a press conference earlier this week, he remarked that the lack of bi0pics in the Nigeria entertainment space is very alarming, explaining that at a time when history was no longer taught in schools, it should be on the screen for the sake of the next generation and a proper build up of the society.
Wole Soyinka is coming to the cinemas on/before June. The cast are done with production and just rounding off post production. We’ll be sincere that it took a lot to create this.
A lot of research, and investigation. But then, if we don’t tell this stories, who would?
Our people run away from telling our own historic stories. We documented every integral aspect of Wole Soyinka.
“The movie was shot in Lagos, Ibadan, and in the United Kingdom. At a point, The producer had an accīdent during production. Many of the cast and crew had to leave even though some have been paid.
The producer had to pay a number of other to come back.
Finance went off at some point and the producer had to sell some of his properties but the goal was fixed. To goal is to preserve culture in the best way we can,” he said.
The graduate of New York film academy, who directed ‘Efunsetan Aniwura’ noted that the most of the set of the movie was created from scratch while commending his team for pulling a great achievement with the production
Cast👇
Lateef adedimeji
Olaiya igwe
Saka and others…..
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