Meet Hong Kong’s New Superhero (He’s Made of Poo)

“The Excreman – On the Road”

Concepts of bliss

For a world tired of familiar superheroes, fear not! There’s a new hero on the way, and he’s made of poop.

Excreman – On the road is the working title of a new production from Hong Kong’s Bliss Concepts, the company that produced the blockbuster McDole franchise in the early 2000s, and was among the most talked-about productions at this year’s Hong Kong Asia Film Finance Forum (HAF) programme.

“It’s a story about life in the sewers, and how the creatures there fight to survive,” said producer and Bliss Concepts general manager Samuel Choi. “They created an Exreman hero to save them, but when he became human he discovered that life among humans was the same as it was in the sewers.”

My life as McDole The film was a hit in Hong Kong and throughout Asia in 2001, winning awards at home and abroad and collecting an estimated HK$14 million ($1.8 million) at the local box office. It followed the travails of a lovable piglet as he pursued his dream of becoming a sports champion, spawning two series, countless games and a show that continues to travel the world to this day.

Excreman – On the road Charts another path entirely. It follows the story of an “extraordinary stool” who is sent to the human world to save his home world – but eventually takes on human form.

“We hope this can share universal themes and make people think about how humans always want to destroy things, even their own feces,” Choi said.

Finally, there are 26 projects in development and 15 works in development (WIP) on display at this year’s edition of the HAF, along with the newly launched HKIFF Industry-CAA China Genre initiative presenting five Chinese-language genre projects.

A diverse range of Asian filmmaking talent is represented, from newbies to seasoned veterans.

Making her first feature film in HAF’s WIP programme, Jiang Xiaoxuan, the Inner Mongolia-born and raised director has trained her cameras – and her story – on a story that hits close to home.

To kill a Mongolian horse It follows a knight who struggles to come to terms with the contradictions between the life he leads as a heroic knight to tourists and the life he lives at home, where his traditional culture is under threat.

“Everyone is here and everything is happening at once,” said Jiang, whose script was developed during 30 daily breakfast screenwriting workshops under the supervision of Malaysian director and producer Tan Choi Mui.Barbarian invasion).

“Tan decided to help because she really liked the script. We like to think it’s a place that’s never been seen before in world cinema, in Inner Mongolia. It’s a look inside another side of Mongolian masculinity, a side that exists outside of mythology.”

Favorite Japanese veteran artist Koji Fukada (2016 Cannes Jury Prize Winner) Organ) At the same time he has Naji’s memoirs In development, HAF is the story of three women, all single and all at different stages in their lives, who come together in a rural village.

“Hopefully we’ll be shooting next spring and something Revoir l’été (2015) will be a kind of homage to Eric Rohmer and it will be in the same style,” explained the film’s producer, Osanai Terutaro. “We’re shooting in Nagi, which is a real village, and the landscape is very similar to Europe. We believe people everywhere will relate to the story and the village in which it takes place.