Exclusive: John Boyega will executive produce South African crime-thriller God Is Good, which is being described by producers as in the vein of Prisoners and City Of God. The Star Wars and Pacific Rim star is also launching a record label, UpperRoom Records, which will oversee the film’s soundtrack.
God Is Good is being produced by fledgling UK production label Bandit Country, headed by former Sony International producer Josephine Rose (Slaughterhouse Rulez). Set in Cape Town’s Cape Flats, the English-language film will follow a reformed gangster-turned-pastor and a volatile detective who cross paths after an act of brutal violence sets them on collision course with a heinous gang lieutenant. Casting discussions are under way with shoot planned for spring of this year.
The film is written and to be directed by first-time South African feature filmmaker Willem Grobler, a former Ifp Film Week Alumnus whose shorts have played at festivals including Clermont-Ferrand.
God Is Good is being produced by fledgling UK production label Bandit Country, headed by former Sony International producer Josephine Rose (Slaughterhouse Rulez). Set in Cape Town’s Cape Flats, the English-language film will follow a reformed gangster-turned-pastor and a volatile detective who cross paths after an act of brutal violence sets them on collision course with a heinous gang lieutenant. Casting discussions are under way with shoot planned for spring of this year.
The film is written and to be directed by first-time South African feature filmmaker Willem Grobler, a former Ifp Film Week Alumnus whose shorts have played at festivals including Clermont-Ferrand.
- 1/15/2019
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
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