Abraham Attah cast as lead for $5million Ade's Journey
Teenage Ghanaian actor Abraham Attah has been cast a the lead
character for a Nollywood International cinema project titled Ade's
Journey.
Budgeted at $5m the producers have also cast several African actors
alongside the young multi-award winning movie star including Isaach de
Bankole (Casino Royale, Black Panther) and Hakeem Kae-Kazim (Hotel
Rwanda, Black Sails) confirmed as support.
British Nigerian Hollywood actors Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje (Suicide
Squad), Nonso Anozie and Wunmi Mosaku are favoured for other supporting
roles with a major British actor in consideration for a key cameo role.
According to the Voice Online, Ade's Journey is a superbly
crafted rites of passage story written by top screenwriter/producer
Brendan Foley (Johnny Was, The Riddle) set against a backdrop of
migration, human trafficking and football.
Based on true events and hugely topical its creatively pitched in the
genre of Slumdog Millionaire and Billy Elliot and is a touching story
about a West African boy’s perilous 6000 mile walk from Africa to Europe
along the migrant route in search of soccer stardom at a top
Premiership football club.
With a compelling story set across West and North Africa, Italy,
France and UK the project already has the support of FIFA, the Premier
League, UNICEF and UNHCR due to the child migration and football themes
in the picture.
Obi Emelonye is attached to direct with Screen Nation Pictures and
The Nollywood Factory producing alongside veteran producer Bob Mahoney
(Critical Assignment) of Devonshire Productions. The project benefits
from an exclusive Exec Producer production pact with Peter Macdonald
(Harry Potter, Bourne Ultimatum, X Men) the hugely respected and
renowned veteran British Director/Producer/DoP.
Abraham Attah, 16, (Beasts of No Nation, Spiderman: Homecoming) is a
child actor who got his big break while starring as ‘Agu’ in the hit
movie Beast of no Nations.
He is also an ambassador for the Ghanaian government’s flagship programme, Free Senior High School.
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