John Boyega will executive produce a film, God is Good, set on the
notorious Cape Flats in Cape Town and written and directed by first-time
filmmaker Willem Grobler.
Willem
Grobler was a co-writer on the 13-episode Afrikaans drama series Spoorloos that
just concluded on M-Net’s Afrikaans channel kykNET (DStv 144), with the British
production company Bandit Country that will be producing the movie.
Deadline reports that the film, in English, will follow a reformed gangster that have
become a pastor and a volatile detective who cross paths after a brutal act of
violence. This leads them to a collision course with a heinous gangster boss.
God is Good plans to start filming around autumn.
John Boyega
told Deadline that God is Good is "a powerful and important
story that explores themes of fathers and fatherhood, toxic masculinity, race
and faith in a community that has become trapped in an unending cycle of
violence and racial oppression, and where sometimes it seems for men that
violence is the only way of achieving power".
"Willem has written a superb screenplay and we are
looking forward to working with him to realise the vision behind it."
God is Good will have an accompanying soundtrack that will include songs from various artists across the African continent, that will be done through John Boyega's new record label, UpperRoom Records.
God is Good will have an accompanying soundtrack that will include songs from various artists across the African continent, that will be done through John Boyega's new record label, UpperRoom Records.
