The creators of ‘76,’ an award-winning epic
movie about the overthrow of Major-General
Murtala Muhammed, will now follow-up with
a feature on the Boko Haram saga.
Adonijah Owiriwa of Adonis Production,
which co-produced ‘76’ with Prince Tonye
Princewill, said a story was already being
developed and that the Nigerian Military was
collaborating on the project.
In an interview with Vanguard, Owirira said
Princewill and Izu Ojukwu, the Director of
‘76’ and himself, recently spent one week in
Maiduguri, conferring with top Military
brass.
According to him, “the Military was deeply
impressed with what we did with ‘76.’ So
they approached us and expressed an
interest in collaborating on a movie about
the Boko Haram conflict.”
‘76,’ an oblique off-take on the assassination
of Nigeria’s charismatic Military Head of State
41 years ago, filmed in 2012 mainly at the
Army Barracks in Ibadan, garnered eight
nominations in the 2017 African Movie
Academy Awards, AMAA, winning Best
Nigerian Film and Best Production Design
awards.
