Nigerian award winning novelist, Biyi Bandele is set to direct EbonyLife and Netflix’s film adaptation of Wole Soyinka’s ‘Death and the King’s Horseman’.
The film will be set as a period piece and will follow the plotline of Soyinka’s play.
Confirming production, EbonyLife boss Mo Abudu wrote on Instagram:
“We started with Castle & Castle 2, we then went on to Chief Daddy 2, then recently announced Blood Sisters and yesterday, we started principal photography on something very dear and special- Death and the King’s Horseman.
“Death and the King’s Horseman is a play by Professor Wole Soyinka based on a real incident that took place in Nigeria during the colonial era: the horseman of a Yoruba king was prevented from committing ritual suicide by the colonial authorities.
“It has been a lot of work bringing this particular project to life because it is a project piece set in Nigeria in the 1940s.
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While the film’s cast is yet to be unveiled, Abudu confirmed that the new film is co-produced by Heidi Uys, Judith Audu, Quinty Pillay, Adeola Osunkujo and James Amuta.
The Director of Photography is award-winning cinematographer Lance Gewer (‘Tsotsi’)
Bandele is also a UK-based Nigerian writer of fiction, theatre, journalism, television, film and radio, and a filmmaker.
He directed Chimamanda Adichie’s ‘Half of a Yellow Sun’ back in 2013.
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Biyi Bandele to Direct Wole Soyinka’s ’Death and the King’s Horseman’.
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