The internationally known movie “On The Job (OTJ)” of critically-acclaimed director Erik Matti will soon be turned into a six-part mini-series. In an interview with InterAksyon, the film producer Dondon Monteverde decided to do the mini-series which will allow them to “expand the world and the characters that they started in the original OTJ movie.
According to Erik Matti one of the story angles they have been working on focuses on Philippine media. “There is going to be one big story that is going to erupt in the media industry and that’s where the killings started,” he shared, adding, “It will also cover social media, video platforms, radio…”
The mini-series “OTJ” is a co-production between Reality Entertainment and Star Cinema as part of the latter’s 20th anniversary presentation. The production will start sometime this month. The series will be made available to Hooq subscribers in the Philippines, as well as in Indonesia, India, and Thailand by the fourth quarter of 2016.
Matti hinted some of the film’s original cast members could appear on the series. Piolo Pascual, Gerald Anderson, Joel Torre and Joey Marquez were the lead stars of the movie.
The critically-acclaimed film bagged the the Jury’s Choice Prize and the Best Actor award for Torre at the Bunchon International Fantastic Film Festival in South Korea in 2013.
The film’s creative team including screenwriter Michiko Yamamoto will also be working on the series. In the Philippines the movie “On The Job” won several awards including Best Picture of the Year at the PMPC Star Awards for Movies, Best Screenplay at the FAMAS awards, Best Sound at Gawad Urian, to name a few.
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