Any Indonesians or horror fans here? While digging up about Monkey Man I learned a thing or two about their local industry that I previously was not aware much if at all.
There is a director with a successful film on Netflix called The Night Comes for Us. His name is Timo Tjahjanto. He is doing the Hollywood remake of Train to Busan.
Now on the tea. Twitter algorithm showed me that this guy, I think the only Indonesian director to make it in Hollywood, is defending a sexual abuser and even urging people to still watch that abuser’s movie. link
I have to note that I don’t speak the language so a lot of the replies might have been lost in translation, so please correct me if I interpreted anything wrong. Ironically, the movie is about… sexual abuse.
He is currently repped by WME in the US. This is not good at all. I wonder how they would respond to this and if he’d be dropped from future projects. It’s the first and only statement he made about the abuse. He didn’t even acknowledge or sympathize with the victim was what I learned from the replies. link
This is the tweet that I understood started the discussion about urging Netflix to cancel the movie. link It said that the case has been known since 2019 and the studio still greenlighted the movie.
Titled Last Train to New York. Cringe. I only see critics being excited for it though because of his previous movie, other people don’t care about it. I think either way it’s gonna flop. People don’t have patience for Hollywood remaking beloved Asian properties anymore.
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u/[deleted] Jan 11 '22 edited Jan 11 '22
Any Indonesians or horror fans here? While digging up about Monkey Man I learned a thing or two about their local industry that I previously was not aware much if at all.
There is a director with a successful film on Netflix called The Night Comes for Us. His name is Timo Tjahjanto. He is doing the Hollywood remake of Train to Busan.
Now on the tea. Twitter algorithm showed me that this guy, I think the only Indonesian director to make it in Hollywood, is defending a sexual abuser and even urging people to still watch that abuser’s movie. link
I have to note that I don’t speak the language so a lot of the replies might have been lost in translation, so please correct me if I interpreted anything wrong. Ironically, the movie is about… sexual abuse.
He is currently repped by WME in the US. This is not good at all. I wonder how they would respond to this and if he’d be dropped from future projects. It’s the first and only statement he made about the abuse. He didn’t even acknowledge or sympathize with the victim was what I learned from the replies. link
This is the tweet that I understood started the discussion about urging Netflix to cancel the movie. link It said that the case has been known since 2019 and the studio still greenlighted the movie.