Darryl Yap Says Ninoy Aquino & Cory's Brother Were Imelda's Suitors

Darryl Yap shared this intriguing post about “Martyr or Murderer”

Director Darryl Yap claimed in his recent Facebook post that Ninoy Aquino and Pete Cojuangco, the brother of Cory Aquino were among the many suitors of Imelda Marcos.

Darryl is the writer and director of the controversial movie Maid In Malacanang. In the movie, he showed the vulnerable side of the Marcos family hours before they were forced to leave the Palace. This garnered criticism from people who are anti-Marcos but this did not stop the movie from being released in other countries.

The filmmaker pitched this project to Viva Films as a trilogy. Following MiM, he will present the MoM or Martyr or Murderer. For the second film, Direk Darryl intends to present the story of Ninoy Aquino.

In his previous post, the director teased that he wants veteran actor Phillip Salvador to play the character of Ninoy while he expressed that Joey Marquez will do great as Fabian Ver in the movie. The two actors are both ex-partners of Kris Aquino, the youngest daughter of Ninoy and Cory.

In a recent Facebook post, Darryl Yap said that two of the over a hundred suitors of Imelda Marcos were Ninoy Aquino and Pete Cojuangco. “Kilala nyo si NINOY, pero si PETE na kuya ni Cory Aquino, Hindi,” the director added. He included the hashtags “Martyr or Murderer” and “MoM” in his post.

In the comment section of Direk Darryl’s post, a netizen said that eventually, Pete Cojuangco married Rosario Cacho who is the sister of the mother of First Lady Liza Araneta-Marcos.

There were netizens who said that they heard the story about this. A lot of netizens got shocked by this revelation from the director. There were also a lot of netizens who expressed their excitement about the sequel of MiM.