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Nollywood: Filmmaker To Shoot Movie On Moving Train

Nollywood: Filmmaker To Shoot Movie On Moving Train

 

Award winning Nigerian filmmaker, Rogers Ofime has announced plans to shoot first ever Nollywood movie on a moving train.

Ofime stated that 95% of the movie will be shot along the Lagos-Ibadan route.
The Lagos-Ibadan railway was inaugurated recently for a full paid operation by the Nigerian Railway Corporation after about a year of free test-run.

Ofime, best known for producing several notable Nigerian television soap operas, including ‘The Johnsons’, ‘Tinsel’ and ‘Hush’, announced that the film, titled, ‘Conversations in transit,’ would be shot in partnership with Nigeria Railway Cooperation.

With Native media tv taking the lead, the project is going to be the first of its kind in Africa; the entire movie would be shot on a moving train, from its arrival, transit, and departure.

Ofime, who has been producing movies for over a decade, hinted that the movie would showcase the infrastructural development in the transportation sector and Nigeria as a whole.

The movie was scripted by Tope Bolade- Akinbode and Dichie Enunwa and to be directored by Robert Peters.

The movie tells a story of an heiress; Hajara, event planner; Ini, and a career woman; Adeola, on a train ride with an abusive fiance, a cheating and an alcoholic repentant husband. They have a prospect of indulging in a wild naughty weekend with total strangers while traveling from Lagos to Ibadan but the journey would change the course of their destiny.

The movie cast is star-studded. Richard Mofe Damijo (RMD), Rahama Sadau, Uzee Usman, Yvonne Nelson, will play the lead roles.

Filming is set to commence in 2022 and would be premiered on a train in transit.
Native Media Ltd is a multi-award-winning television production company, they are the producers of ‘Oloibiri’, ‘Voiceless’, ‘Hush’, ‘Zamani’, ‘Hotel Majestic’ amongst others blockbuster movies.

 

S.I/All Africa

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