Prime Filipino movie director Mikhail Crimson (“Birdshot,” “Rekorder”) is ready as collection director of “Dreamwalker,” a live-action book-to-series adaptation of a narrative a few monster-slaying vlogger. The venture is being arrange by London- and Singapore-based 108 Media.
The present is an adaptation of the “Dreamwalker” action-fantasy graphic novel by Filipino-American popular culture blogger Mikey Sutton and artist Noel Layon Flores. The novel topped the comics charts in The Philippines and was auctioned for TV adaptation. 108 Media envisages the present as a multi-season universe which can start to search out its strategy to regional audiences in Asia from early 2024.
Season one will concentrate on the origin story of the Filipino-American protagonist Kat who returns to the Philippines below mysterious circumstances. She survives a bus crash and finds herself gifted with the power to enter desires of others and having the ability to extract weapons briefly to wield towards supernatural beings from Filipino folklore as she investigates the supply of the monster wave whereas making an attempt to assist these affected by the looming menace.
Advertisement
ContentAsia Award Greatest Director winner Treb Monteras II is ready as showrunner and director, Crimson is collection director and Los Angeles-based style icon Kaitlyn Fae Fajilan is head author. GMA’s in style star Kate Valdez (“Unica Hija”) will take the lead position.
Govt producers for the collection are Justin Deimen (president of 108 Media), Monteras, Kirstie Contrevida (inventive producer at 108 Media), Abhi Rastogi (CEO of 108 Media) and Sutton.
Sutton says the position was successfully written for Valdez lengthy earlier than her attachment. “I randomly found Kate Valdez in 2018 whereas recovering from a near-fatal stroke. I noticed her on the GMA drama ‘Onanay’ and her emotionally wealthy efficiency and timeless magnificence made me declare her the Subsequent Massive Factor. I modelled and named ‘Dreamwalker’ after her,” he stated in an announcement.
“The purpose is to create an authentic mind-blowing and visually dynamic collection that dives deep into the horrors in our desires vs. the horrors of our world. We are going to make the most of completely different mediums and strategies to create breath-taking designs that seize Philippine folklore’s intricate universe,” stated Monteras.
Advertisement
108 Media has had a busy and expansive yr. It acquired the previously AIM-listed DCD Rights and its subsidiaries; invested in Singapore-based animation IP specialist Robotic Playground Media, secured a majority stake in one among Asia’s high scripted manufacturing corporations Revolution Media and bought administration management of one of many U.Ok.’s most distinguished movie/TV financing companies Piccadilly Photos.
On the content material entrance, it just lately struck a co-financing take care of BritBox Worldwide on collection “Inspector Singh,” that’s at present in manufacturing and introduced a showrunner partnership with horror maestro Neil Marshall on “Nightshade.” 108 Media can be in pre-production on a function adaptation of the hit novel Mango Bride,” with Sharon Cuneta hooked up to govt produce and star.
