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‘The Night Comes For Us’ Director Timo Tjahjanto To Direct THE BIG FOUR For Netflix

There’s been some BIG things happening this weekend if you’ve tuned in to the Netflix Tudum Watch Party to check out trailers and updates on upcoming series and films, including Cowboy Bebop starring Jon Cho, Mustafa Shakir and Daniella Pineda. We’ll be sure to cover even more going forward, but what we can also report via Netflix as of Saturday is word that director favorite Timo Tjahjanto has signed a new deal with the streamer to direct new feature film, The Big Four. Plot and casting details are under wraps. “I’m honored for the opportunity to tell this particular story to the world. With my previous experience of working with Netflix that allowed international exposure, I’m very excited for this new project.” said Tjahjanto. Best known for deep-diving into the horror genre with film cohort Kimo Stamboel on projects like Macabre and Killers, the two helmers eventually also collaborated on […]

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New Line’s TRAIN TO BUSAN Remake Lands ‘The Night Comes For Us’ Director Timo Tjahjanto

A little over a few years after New Line landed the rights, the long-brewing remake of Yeon Sang-ho’s hit 2016 zombie survival thriller, Train To Busan, officially landed a director in Timo Tjahjanto. A fitting choice in the horror arena, Tjahjanto is best known for his work as one-half of the ‘Mo’ Brothers working alongside filmmaker Kimo Stamboel for hits such as Macabre and Killers, and back-to-back Chelsea Islan-led May The Devil Take You and its 2020 sequel. Tjahjanto eventually got bit by the action bug in time to arouse audiences with brutal and increasingly bloody action showcases like Headshot (2016) and the highly celebrated The Night Comes For Us (2018). Timo is directing the new incarnation from a script by Gary Dauberman, who is producing via Coin Operated; Also producing are Atomic Monster’s James Wan and Michael Clear (Mortal Kombat) and Gaumont’s Nicolas Atlan and Terry Kalagian, with Judson […]

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BLOOD RUSH: ‘The Night Comes For Us’ Director Boards Ranjeet Marwa’s Indo Action Thriller As Consultant [EXCLUSIVE]

Director Timo Tjahjanto is officially coming aboard as production consultant on Ranjeet S. Marwa’s latest thriller, Blood Rush. The move reunites between Tjahjanto, and his Headshot and The Night Comes For Us actors Zack Lee and Sunny Pang, who have since joined the cast since the film’s announcement at the top of the year. Pic hails from Rocket Sky High Motion Pictures Ltd. Marwa will direct from his own script which centers on Lee in the role of Max Wayan, a grieving widower whose secretive new life in the occult turns out to be more than he bargained for. Also joining the cast are actors Yayan Ruhian (The Raid franchise, Hit & Run), and Nathan Jones (Jet Li’s Fearless, Mad Max: Fury Road), and stunt performer/action actor Nick Khan (Aladdin, Invincible) who also serves as fight choreographer. In addition, actor Nicholas Vince (Hellraiser, Hellbound: Hellraiser II) is currently in talks […]

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Timo Tjahjanto Teases ‘Night Of The Operator’ With Fuzzy Photo Hype

Timo Tjahjanto, whose recent Netflix hit, The Night Comes For Us, proved to be a bloody, flesh-severing martial arts action affair of the highest order upon releasing back in October. The goal, of course and as always with the streaming service, is to get people to watch, and of course, Tjahjanto has certainly lended his voice to the cause. Mentions of a franchise have kept fans in waiting line with the director often vague-tweeting hints on character fan favorite, “The Operator”, played aptly by actress Julie Estelle (The Raid 2, Headshot, Foxtrot Six). Even going so far as earlier this month to spontaneously tweet “Night of The Operator.” in a March 4 post, to which screenwriter and author Ben Trebilcook replied “Mate….. you’re the opposite of Freddy, you’re not stirring nightmares, but my dreams!” As of this week, Tjahjanto kept the enigamtic fervor going in a post featuring a fuzzy […]

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Timo Tjahjanto’s THE NIGHT COMES FOR US: A Story Of Frenetic Poetry

Orson Welles said of friendship that, through it, we get to create the illusion that we are not alone. He said of women that through them men become civilized. I wonder what he would have thought of The Night Comes For Us, a film that illustrates friendship (both its value and fragility) through a harsh, deconstructive lens, and presents a young girl as the catalyst for its protagonist’s quest to civilize himself, that is, to regain his civility after a career of criminality and murder. Ito, played by Joe Taslim, is the star of the picture, a gangland veteran from the streets of Jakarta who progressed from here to become an enforcer for the East Asian Triad. Ito, at the film’s opening, has experienced a sudden change of heart -or re-evaluation of his life- when met by the pleading eyes of a young girl (Asha Kenyeri Bermudez) who just witnessed […]

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THE HIT LIST: December 10, 2018

Two more weeks until the holidays! Have you guys laid out Christmas plans yet? I have, and if I’m fortunate then they’ll mostly include sleep. Indeed, it’s another week and THAT means another installment of The Hit List, brimming with medleys of stunt and indie action talent from around the world. Rising action star Jean-Paul Ly (Jailbreak, upcoming Artemis Fowl) unveils his calling card with a new demo reel, followed by reels from Alexey Minaev, Milena Brewster, Ishigaki Shinji, Frank Alfano Jr., Alyson Pickett, Sebastian Andrade Heinatz, Drew Reade, Heidi Pascoe, Gene Freeman, Xanthia Marinelli, Ryan John, Wilson Sze, Camran Bostanabad, and Aaron Hakala. Time to promote some projects and the first of which comes from our own Nicholas Ortiz with an exclusive look at three stills from the next installment of Power Rangers: Unworthy. The first episode from Kamen Ramen and Ortiz’s Deviant Children banner arrived back in August […]

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Timo Tjahjanto’s AFTER .11 Goes Out With A Bang In The Official Trailer

Provided you’ve been taking my advice on properly stalking director Timo Tjahjanto’s Instagram for all things relevant to The Operator, you might have also come actors The Night Comes For Us helmer’s teaser pics from a then-unnamed project. That project now has a title with After .11 marking The Night Comes For Us starring villainess, Dian Sastrowardoyo’s reunion with Tjahjanto. She stars here as Agent D, a secret agent whose latest situation finds her held captive and forced to choose between her mission, and her family. The news came within hours of Sastrowardoyo’s latest hire at BASE Productions in reunion with longtime friend Shanty Harmayn who produced the actress’s first key role in Whispering Sands (2001). The official trailer is out, as is some new artwork teasing an intriguing end to the action and thrills.I’m not too certain about the nature of After.11 in whether or not it’s a short […]

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THE NIGHT COMES FOR US Teases A Killer Fated To Kill One Last Time In The Official Trailer!

If you’re like me, the past four years have probably proven to be one of the biggest waiting games you’ve ever played. It’s certainly been longer for acclaimed Mo’ Bro filmmaker, director Timo Tjahjanto since arduously birthing his concepts for The Night Comes For Us with the goal of bringing back The Raid actor Joe Taslim. There’s nothing else, really, to the matter apart from what else has already been said with respect to its stagnation in 2014. All we really know after all the waiting, depression and renewed hope is that I think we’re on the same page in expressing our collective euphoria since the first teaser clip arose ahead of the film’s premiere at Sitges. As such, we now have an official trailer that meets our needs from a preliminary standpoint. That we also saw an official poster with a release date also felt more than fruitful, but […]

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THE NIGHT COMES FOR US Dawns A Stern New Photo From The Joe Taslim Actioner

Keeping certain of our attention through 2018 with the usual slow pacing of jewels for Timo Tjahjanto’s The Night Comes For Us, we have another still from the post production phase as its end inches closer. The film is Tjahjanto’s solo feature debut with actor and martial artist Joe Taslim since breaking out in supporting fashion with Gareth Evans’s The Raid (2011) and in Justin Lin’s Star Trek: Beyond (2016) for his first Hollywood endeavor. Taslim plays Ito, a gangland enforcer arriving from his stint at abroad and home to his crime family in Jakarta only to find himself caught in a web of turmoil, treachery and violent upheaval. Reuniting with Taslim is action star Iko Uwais following their appearance together in Gareth Evans’s The Raid, along with Uwais and Tjahjanto’s Headshot cast, actress Julie Estelle and actors Sunny Pang and Zack Lee, and with Epy Kusandar, Hannah Al Rashid and […]

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THE NIGHT COMES FOR US: ‘Ito’ Peeks Out Of Joe Taslim’s Instagram For The New Crime Thriller

Lest you forget about writer and director Timo Tjahjanto’s solo directorial debut, The Night Comes For Us, more updates are still to come. Production on the film wrapped back in March on the pic with a near-seven year evolution in its wake before starting in December 2016. With a Jakarta shoot 76 days in, it will be a while before we get to see some official jewels from production which has actor Joe Taslim (Furious 6, Star Trek: Beyond) making his debut. For now though, we have a new grab on display at Tjahjanto’s Instagram which you can view below featuring Taslim in character. Taslim plays Ito, a gangland enforcer arriving from his stint at abroad and home to his crime family in Jakarta only to find himself caught in a web of turmoil, treachery and violent upheaval. Reuniting with Taslim is action star Iko Uwais following their appearance together […]

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THE NIGHT COMES FOR US Wraps Principal Photography

Princpal photography wrapped on Tuesday for the filming leg of writer and director Timo Tjahjanto’s solo directorial debut, The Night Comes For Us. Production on the pic took a near-seven year evolution and finally went underway last December with scenes filmed in and around Jakarta, Indonesia for its seventy-six day shoot following its resurrection last August. The film sees the return of actor Joe Taslim (Furious 6, Star Trek: Beyond) for his debut lead role as Ito, a gangland enforcer arriving from his stint at abroad and home to his crime family in Jakarta only to find himself caught in a web of turmoil, treachery and violent upheaval. Reuniting with Taslim is action star Iko Uwais following their appearance together in Gareth Evans’s The Raid (2011), while casting familars from Tjahjanto’s resume include the additions of Julie Estelle, Epy Kusandar, Sunny Pang, Zack Lee, Hannah Al Rashid and Shareefa Daanish […]

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RONIN AT LARGE: An Interview With Sunny Pang

Photo: Arnold Wells The latest Fall film festival premieres of the new ‘Mo Brothers amnesiac revenge thriller, Headshot, has already drawn waves of approval from most critics and fans able to attend film events in Texas, as well as in Busan and Sitges to name a few. The film also landed in Toronto before long where select cast members also intended the film’s Midnight Madness opener, including the film’s co-star, Sunny Pang who became known to me as early as 2012 by way of director James Lee’s action comedy, The Collector. Thankfully, friend and one of Canada’s best stuntmen, Alex Chung took to this year’s Toronto International Film Fest to screen Headshot for a review on our site. I also recommended it as a chance for him to meet Pang and the cast and unfortunately their meeting was too brief in the midst of the electricity in the room for them […]

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THE NIGHT COMES FOR US Once Again!

Nearly two years have passed since news slowly and quietly broke of the shelving of the Joe Taslim-starring action vehicle, The Night Comes For Us, and the real reasons why remain unbeknownst to the public. The film was drawn on the hinges of the recent successes of Indonesian film hits like Gareth Evans’s Merantau, The Raid and The Raid 2, in addition to directing duo Timo Tjahjanto and Kimo Stamboel’s Macabre and Killers, and as one of two genre films being planned by Merantau and XYZ Films. Thankfully and whatever the case may be this week, it appears that Tjahjanto’s forthcoming solo feature debut at the helm is officially back on track with word of a screenfighting and casting call just in the last 24 hours overseas in Indonesia via social media. The film, to be produced by Evans along with Maya Barack Evans and XYZ Films, and in what […]

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[UPDATED] TIFF 2016: Mo Bros' Actioner, HEADSHOT Gets Poster Sightings

The tension and excitement continue to brew in lieu of the upcoming world premiere of the new action thriller, Headshot at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival. Other screenings are also in the works for the new movie from Killers and Macabre helmers Timo Tjahjanto and Kimo Stamboel while a likely 2017 release date for next year remains pending. In the meantime, you may recall a batch of teaser posters slowly rolling out earlier this year during the film’s post-production process introducing blurred images of the cast. Well, as of this week, the images are much sharper as new posters have finally begun circulating by way of TIFF and featuring our cast at hand, led by Indonesian martial arts wunderkind, actor Iko Uwais in the role of Ishmael, an amnesiac whose violent past comes back to jog his memory whilst in the care of a nurse tending to him. Joining […]

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[UPDATED] THE NIGHT COMES FOR US Is On Hold, Production Uncertain

UPDATE (12/24/14): Based on a Tweet response four days ago, it appears that Tjahjanto is taking his vision for the former production of The Night Comes For Us and putting it into graphic novel form with Glitch Network. Production on the film itself suddenly halted back in September for reasons unknown. (Special thanks to commentor, Fatso, for the heads’ up!) EARLIER REPORT: Fans of Gareth Huw Evans’s 2011 action thriller, The Raid, may have noticed one other title that’s gone quite a while without much mention in the headlines. That title, of course, Killers co-helmer Timo Tjahjanto’s Indonesian crime epic, The Night Comes For Us, for which The Raid co-star Joe Taslim was the subject of much buzz when he was officially cast for the lead in April of last year. Well, if you fit the profile and have long been pining for more details surrounding the film, the good […]

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Well Go USA Unveils Its Trailer For Mo Brothers Thriller, KILLERS

2014 was a great year for directing duo, “Mo” Brothers — Kimo Stamboel and Timo Tjahjanto and producer Gareth Evans with the acclaim they’ve received in the months after debuting Sundance 2014 fave, Killers. The film earned its simultaneous praise alongside Evans’s equally smashing debut of The Raid 2 as both films were produced by Evans’s banner, PT Merantau Films among others, with Killers ultimately doing well for itself upon its release in Indonesia back in February. Now, moviegoers who were unable to attend the gala at Sundance are finally getting their chance to see what the fuss is all about with Well Go USA proudly releasing the film theatrically and digitally on January 23, 2015, setting up for what will likely be one of the most intense, violent and thrilling films you’ll ever see on the big screen. It will also serve as a great precursor to the upcoming […]

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THE NIGHT COMES FOR US: Director Timo Tjahjanto Talks More About Julie Estelle's New Role

  On Wednesday, breaking news reported that actress Julie Estelle, co-star of Gareth Evans’ The Raid 2 was confirmed to appear in director Timo Tjahjanto‘s latest crime thriller, The Night Comes For Us, currently featuring lead actor Joe Taslim and actor Yayan Ruhian. Following that report, Tjahjanto spoke on-record to Twitchfilm writer Andrew Mack about the status of Estelle‘s preparation for the role: She is about to enter a heavy duty training phase right now as we will be demanding a LOT of her physically in this film.  I worked with Julie before in my first feature film (Macabre), she was a ferocious kid then.  Watching her in the RAID 2 : Berandal almost 5 years later (Sundance) I literally bit my tongue several times, in awe;  how hardcore she has become, Hammer Girl will be remembered as an iconic character for years to come.   I said to Gareth; I […]

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THE NIGHT COMES FOR US Tweets More Choreo Action Via Twitter

The official Twitter campaign page for director Timo Tjahjanto‘s currently developing action thriller, The Night Comes For Us just launched a day ago after the film’s latest push for an open casting call in Indonesia. And today, the account is now host to its first pre-production choreography photo with its stars, lead actor Joe Taslim and Yayan Ruhian which you can view below. Hostile Reunion #theNightcomesforUs #choreo http://t.co/Y6ijgcdNiw — TheNightComesforUs (@officialTNCFU) February 27, 2014 The new photo is also the latest of slow and steady updates on the film’s progress through social networking since November last year, teasing bits of the film’s fight work designated to action director Gareth Evans, with Iko Uwais serving as fight choreographer. The film, described as a story of vengeance and redemption, is set to begin its mid-Spring shoot for a 2015 release, with Taslim starring as Ito, a gangland enforcer newly arrived home to […]

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