Lungyin Lim’s Giant Swordfish Thriller ‘Malice’ Boarded by Lonely Production (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comJohn Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentIn a deal which transforms a local project into an international production, Taiwan’s Tydal Productions has struck a co-production deal with the Czech Republic’s Lonely Production to make “Malice,” a potentially arresting high-sea thriller to be directed by Lungyin Lim.Set up at Lungyin Lim’s Tydal Productions and Aview Images, both based in Taiwan, “Malice” is produced by Aview Images’s SheeHeng Kuek and Ivy Shen Yu-hua.Scheduled to shoot from December 2023, it will now be co-produced by Prague’s Lonely Production, founded by producer-director Michal Sikora.Lonely Production will oversee the post-production package in the Czech Republic and Europe.
Lim has a preference for shooting in Super 16 mm with digital VFX, European expertise feeding into the traditional film process.
This will extend the film’s creative possibilities and production quality, Kuek said. Kuek has been moving “Malice” at Locarno Pro’s Match Me!
where it one of the networking event’s buzz titles. He told Variety that the partners are now looking to co-produce with France, Germany, Estonia or Indonesia.In “Malice,” four years before its action, an accident chasing a giant swordfish took killed Captain Fu’s elder son.
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