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FOXTROT SIX Review: Mario Kassar Ambitiously ‘Raids’ Fanfare With Epic Indo-Action Sci-Fi

For every cinephile and action movie fantatic, Mario Kassar’s name rings tried and true. One of the very hit Hollywood producers behind the megastardom of actors like Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jean-Claude Van Damme to name a few, Kassar’s latest stint takes movie fans to Indonesia with Foxtrot Six, an explosive men-on-a-mission action sci-fi with an ambitious formula that taps ardently into the local talent base.

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FOXTROT SIX: The Rebellion Begins In The First Official Trailer For The Mario Kassar-Produced Sci-Fi Action Thriller

Of all the films out there that get announced and are often left by the wayside to be forgotten, you’ve got to give it to exec producer Mario Kassar this week. Close to two-and-a-half years since the news broke of dystopian sci-fi, Foxtrot Six, the feature film and franchise hopeful from debut director Randy Korompis is rolling out its first official trailer as of Tuesday after sparking months of growing interest in two teasers.

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FOXTROT SIX Riles Up The Base With A Second Official Teaser

There’s no question that Timo Tjahjanto’s rampaging Netflix hit thriller, The Night Comes For Us, has continued to set a defining tone for the presence of Indonesian cinema in today’s film market. It’s certainly set a good precedence for veteran Hollywood blockbuster producer Mario Kassar whose own prospective return to film of late will once again bring the region back to center stage next year with Randy Korompis‘ new dystopian sci-fi, Foxtrot Six.

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Mario Kassar’s FOXTROT SIX Locks And Loads With An Intense First Teaser

Heralded Hollywood exec producer Mario Kassar’s recent exploits in Southeast Asia are no longer a visual mystery with the first teaser footage now running for forthcoming sci-fi action thriller, Foxtrot Six. The film marks Randy Korompis’ directorial debut, and it’s a pretty sizeable one for a film of its kind it its own region, backed by a budget of up to ten million (last we heard) and slated to be the first of hopefully several initial Hollywood-style blockbuster Southeast Asia productions in recent memory.

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FIVE-A-DAY ROUND-UP III: Diamond Dogs, The Invincible Dragon, Braven, Attrition, Foxtrot Six

The recent SgIFF world premiere of Gavin Lim’s latest small-budget thriller, Diamond Dogs, was something of a call to action for Singapore’s moviegoing audience to try and nourish its own before gaining a foothold on the world stage. The move was an albeit success and will hopefully edge action star Sunny Pang toward international stardom, here tackling the role of Johnny, deaf mute and prisoner to an underground fight circuit where he’s locked away and forced to fight to the top unless his stage three cancer kills him first. Pang caught waves of love from festival crowds while promoting Headshot last year and so let’s hope there’s an interest sparked in this latest thrilling Asian starrer.

Jason Momoa may be eager to move onto The Crow with Corin Hardy as we await what lies ahead for Aquaman. Until then, his latest endeavor as a family man and logger who looks to settle a score with a pack of drug runners who make the dumb decision to underestimate his killing nerve looks to be a feasible welcome for stunt professional Lin Oeding’s directorial debut, Braven. It’s been much more than a year since the first official still beneath from Highland Film Group and Oeding has since moved onto direct action horror, Office Uprising, while Braven might be the first to step out into the spotlight signaling Oeding as a directing talent to look out for, especially since impressing the hell out of folks with his 2012 short, Wake.

Leave it to director Fruit Chan to keep action fans pining for more Max Zhang as we await the verdict on The Invincible Dragon. We managed at least one trailer so far sampling the story of a Hong Kong police officer who travels to Macao in search of his missing fiancée but accidentally stumbles into a series of murder cases. That was during HK FilMart and with another year ahead apart from Well Go USA’s own acquisition earlier on, we should hear some more on this soon enough. Anderson Silva, Stephy Tang, JuJu Chan and Marsha Yuan also star.

I’m not the biggest Steven Seagal fan, but I like who has alingned himself with for Mathieu Weschler’s new movie, Attrition, a film that has taken sometime to get off the ground but has since been completed for a hopefully deeper look next year. This one casts Seagal next to a raft of Asian talents for the story of a stoic soldier-turned-reclusive healer who convenes with his former team to help save the beautiful enchantress who redeemed him. Louis Fan, Donnie Yen cohort Yu Kang and Reel Deal Action’s own Yoon Cha-Lee also star.

Of course, going into some major heavy duty sci-fi action for Indonesia is Hollywood action heavyweight producer Mario Kassar who spent the last few years shepherding Foxtrot Six, set in a dystopian world where food is all but scarce. Noted cinematographer Randy Korompis is making his directorial debut here with a cast comprised of many familiars from hit titles like Headshot, The Raid and The Raid 2, and while there aren’t any official stills just yet, Kassar’s Instagram seems tentatively reliable.

The UNSTOPPABLE TRAIN has left the station and moving fast ???

A post shared by Mario Kassar (@mariokassarofficial) on Sep 3, 2017 at 10:03pm PDT

Stay tuned for the next five!

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Indonesian Sci-Fi Action Thriller FOXTROT SIX Recruits Julie Estelle!

The confirmation of Indonesia action star Iko Uwais’s addition to the summer production of sci-fi action thriller, Foxtrot Six, pretty much hits all the right notes for action fans paying attention at this point. Well, not to be outdone by its currently-listed cast here and further below, the film has since anted-up with the addition of actress Julie Estelle reportedly set to star.

Hailing from Rapid Eye Pictures and East-West Synergy, production will be set in the U.S. an Indonesia with a story centered on mankind’s battle over the world’s natural resources and food supply. Estelle and Uwais, who appeared together in both The Raid franchise as well as The Mo’ Brothers’ Headshot, will be joined by fellow Raid cohorts, actors Arifin Putra, Oka Antara and Verdy Solaeman with the expected involvement of action stalwarts Yayan Ruhian and Cecep Arif Rahman, and in addition to Mike Lewis of Dead Mine fame and Estelle’s fellow Filosofi Kopi (2015) cast, Rio Dewanto and Chicco Jerico.

Cinematographer Randy Korompis will be making his directorial debut with noted Hollywood hit producer Mario Kassar producing alongside fellow The Raid franchise producer Ario Sagantorio. (H/T: Paradigma Pictures via Twitter)

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