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AR Rahman Fantasy and Saudi Arabian Retelling of ‘Macbeth’ Adorn Bobby Bedi’s Contentflow Production Slate (EXCLUSIVE)
Two AR Rahman titles, a Spanish dance documentary and a Saudi Arabian retelling of 'Macbeth' adorn Bobby Bedi's Contentflow Studios production slate.
In development for a year now, the film project is a musical journey of a 13th century mystical character renown from Turkey to China for his wit and wisdom, traveling in times of the crusades and the Mongol invasion. The project is expected to be budgeted at more than $20 million and is being produced in partnership with VFX and facilities giant Technicolor.It will use a combination of live action shooting in desert landscapes with the rest of the environments and backdrops created digitally. “Artists & Assassins,” a film that is currently in development and will be pitched next month at the Asia Television Forum in Singapore, is the story of an artist finding his art, love and life in Mexico’s art world.Structured as a Spain-India coproduction, the film recounts the journey of a young deaf Indian painter who goes to Mexico in the 1950s to train under David Seguiros and ends up befriending Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera during their tumultuous relationship and Leon Trotsky’s assassination.
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