Megan Fox joins a cast of South Africans in the action-adventure Rogue, currently in production and due for a 2020 release.
MultiChoice Group’s M-Net has partnered with Capstone and Mannequin to produce the new feature film. American actress and box-office powerhouse Megan Fox is probably best known for her role in Transformers. Directed by M.J. Basset (Deathwatch, Strikeback), the film – currently in production in the UK and South Africa – will also feature several top-rated local actors.
Fox will share the screen with award-winning South African-born leading man Greg Kriek, who has more than 50 international screen credits to his name. Sisanda Henna, who recently had African audiences raving about his role as the villain Inkuzi in M-Net’s hit series Trackers, also nabbed a part, while Brandon Auret (District 9, Chappie, Still Breathing) and Jessica Sutton (Kissing Booth, Fort Salem) are among the other well-known South African cast members.
Producer and Mannequin Exec Delon Bakker said: “I remember sitting behind the monitor on one of our first days, watching our Director of Photography, Brendan Barnes, frame up a scene with Brandon, Sisanda, Greg, Jessica, and Megan. As a South African, that was a really proud moment for me.”
Lions and mercenaries
Megan Fox portrays Samantha O’Hara, a powerful woman who leads a team of mercenaries in Africa on a mission to rescue a group of kidnapped schoolgirls.
When their plan goes south, the mercenaries find themselves out of ammo and lost in the African bush, having to defend themselves against the kidnappers – and angry lions on a revenge killing mission.
Samantha’s team of mercenaries includes former British Royal Marine Mike Barasa (Greg Kriek); rock-hard, cynical South African sergeant Elijah (Brandon Auret), a battle-hardened former member of the country’s special forces; and the one-time Kenyan/Masai Al Shabab fighter Pata (Sisanda Henna), who joins the mercenaries to exact revenge on those who murdered his daughter.
M-Net holds the rights to distribute Rogue to African audiences, and Capstone will finance and distribute the rest of the world. Rogue will hit the big screen in America and South Africa in 2020, on a same day release.
What: Rogue
Release: 2020
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