Genevieve Nnaji and Ishaya Bako return after an eight-year break and the success of their film ‘Road to Yesterday’ with another production.
The new film is an adaptation of the award-winning novel, ‘I Do Not Come To You By Chance,’ a debut novel written by Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani.
The novel was published in 2009, and tells the story of a young Nigerian man set in the world of email scamming.
The 1 hour and 45 minutes production is filmed in Igbo and English and is set to premier worldwide in September 2023 at Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). The film is one of the nine African titles that will be screened at this year’s festival.
The forthcoming film is directed by Ishayo Bako and executive produced by Genevieve Nnaji, and features a cast of Nollywood actors such as: Beverly Osu, Blossom Chukwujekwu, Jennifer Eliogu, Paul Nnadiekwe and Sambasa Nzeribe.
Concluding Thoughts
This is it. There can never be enough African literature film adaptations; especially by African filmmakers.
The film joins a list of African literature that has been adapted into film such as; Happiness is a Four-Letter Word, Half of a Yellow Sun, Beasts of No Nation, Bidaya wa Nihaya to name a few.
It would be great to see more film adaptations of African literature, especially works by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Chinua Achebe, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor, Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi… The list is endless.
The new film is an adaptation of the award-winning novel, ‘I Do Not Come To You By Chance,’ a debut novel written by Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani.
The novel was published in 2009, and tells the story of a young Nigerian man set in the world of email scamming.
The 1 hour and 45 minutes production is filmed in Igbo and English and is set to premier worldwide in September 2023 at Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). The film is one of the nine African titles that will be screened at this year’s festival.
The forthcoming film is directed by Ishayo Bako and executive produced by Genevieve Nnaji, and features a cast of Nollywood actors such as: Beverly Osu, Blossom Chukwujekwu, Jennifer Eliogu, Paul Nnadiekwe and Sambasa Nzeribe.
Concluding Thoughts
This is it. There can never be enough African literature film adaptations; especially by African filmmakers.
The film joins a list of African literature that has been adapted into film such as; Happiness is a Four-Letter Word, Half of a Yellow Sun, Beasts of No Nation, Bidaya wa Nihaya to name a few.
It would be great to see more film adaptations of African literature, especially works by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Chinua Achebe, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor, Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi… The list is endless.
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