Indonesia's Mo Brothers Gear Up Their KILLERS
Back in 2009 Indonesian filmmaking duo The Mo Brothers (Timo Tjahjanto and Kimo Stamboel) burst on to the international scene with Macabre (aka Rumah Darah), a gleefully bloody splatter fest that challenged local censors and won them fans around the world.
They've been busy on solo work since - Tjahjanto has a segment in the upcoming The ABCs Of Death and a pair of collaborative projects in the works with The Raid director Gareth Evans while Stamboel is attached to direct upcoming martial arts picture One Good Thing with Marko Zaror and The Raid's Yayan Ruhian - but for the time being their attention is fully on spilling a little blood as a duo once again.
On Friday Tjahjanto tweeted a photo of ongoing set construction for Killers, the duo's sophomore feature now in the final stages of pre-production in Japan.
With principal photography right around the corner expect to hear more from this soon.
They've been busy on solo work since - Tjahjanto has a segment in the upcoming The ABCs Of Death and a pair of collaborative projects in the works with The Raid director Gareth Evans while Stamboel is attached to direct upcoming martial arts picture One Good Thing with Marko Zaror and The Raid's Yayan Ruhian - but for the time being their attention is fully on spilling a little blood as a duo once again.
On Friday Tjahjanto tweeted a photo of ongoing set construction for Killers, the duo's sophomore feature now in the final stages of pre-production in Japan.
Nomura, a man in his early thirties, lives successfully in Tokyo, Japan. Girls like him and he likes being in their company, however, none of them realizes the true sinister identity behind his clean cut façade. Nomura has been leaving a legacy of violent murders that he immortalizes through video clips that he posts in a public video website. He revels on the sight and fact that millions of people have been witness through his virally spread videos.
Based on an original idea by Nightmare Detective producer Ushiyama Takuji, Killers will split production between Japan and Indonesia with Japanese production house Nikkatsu and producer Yoshinori Chiba (Cold Fish, Guilty Of Romance, Yatterman) backing the project. The Indonesian side of the film is supported by the Mo's own Guerilla Merah productions and Gareth Huw Evans' P.T. Merantau Pictures.Thousands of miles away from him, in a whole different world, lives Bayu, a disgraced investigative journalist living in a violent and unstable Jakarta, Indonesia. As Bayu's life is hit by the nadir of failures, he starts to take cue from Nomura's videos that create an alter ego of a vigilante serial killer who records his own brand of "justified" killings. Nomura's seemingly confident and controlled charm starts to peel when his ego is wounded by the fact that Bayu's videos have reached a significant numbers of followers that could rival his own ...
With principal photography right around the corner expect to hear more from this soon.
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