Michael J Rix, creator of the South African stop-motion feature, Tengers, is raising development funding for his new live action feature project, a comedy titled Koos Koringkriek.
Says Rix: “Koos has been painstakingly conceptualised to tap into South Africa’s biggest movie-watching market, designed to entertain and to keep selling on various platforms for years to come. A tale of romance, adventure, friendship, laughter, betrayal, greed, more laughter, brief nudity and small green garden pests, Koos Koringkriek is set to take SA by storm in 2009.’
The film centres on Koos, a lay-about who eventually answers his call to fight crime in Jo’burg after being attacked by what he mistakenly believes to be a radio-active Parktown Prawn. To complicate issues he is forced to keep his new identity a secret from his life-long best friend, his disapproving parents, and the object of his affections, the beautiful Jacqueline. All this leads to an explosive finale in which Koos comes face to face with the most evil of Super-villains, the Southern African dictator Bob Mubobi.
“As the producers are looking to start production in early 2009, development funds are required to get the script polished and ready to shoot. Shares are now available,’ notes Rix.
Interested parties can e-mail michaeljrix@gmail.com.
Tengers won best animated film at the D.I.Y. Film Festival in Los Angeles.
