New film ‘Wira’ kicks into high gear with its action sequences
While deep into filming his new movie Wira, director Adrian Teh was so occupied thinking of how to capture the movie’s action scenes effectively and innovatively 24-7, that he was even dreaming about it … literally.
“In my dream, someone punched me as I was walking down a street. But, my reaction was to ask the person to hit me again because the angle of his punch was quite interesting,” shared Teh, 35, with a laugh.
Teh – whose last feature was the box office success Paskal The Movie, which explored the elite force of the Royal Malaysian Navy, a subject never looked at previously in local films – is once again trying to break new grounds in Malaysia’s film industry.
This time around, he wants to up how our action films are made and presented. And he’s pulling this off with a budget of RM8mil; that’s RM2mil less than what he spent on Paskal.
Despite a smaller budget, he’s managed to hire renowned Indonesian action star Yayan Ruhian (The Raid films, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum) to choreograph the action sequences in the film, as well as secure a new technocrane (a telescopic arm that lifts the camera up to 6m, which can also be fully retracted) that was just brought in to Malaysia.
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