There’s a new sci-fi movie coming out in Ghana in a few months, and while the teaser released today confirms its budget clearly isn’t close to what Hollywood-backed films get, it does have the benefit of shooting against the otherworldly Ghanian salt flats.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, filmmaker M Sayibu, who previously was in the U.S. Air Force and lived in Los Angeles for a time, came up with the story when he was in high school. Flash-forward several years, he shot the movie over thirty days in Ghana—mostly in the salt mining town of Sege—which they used for scenes that take place on another planet. “There was nothing there. You are not in Ghana or on Earth anymore,” Sayibu said about the location.
Adam The First, which stars Bex, a Ghanian actor Sayibu met in 2017 who also helped him raise funding for the project, takes place in a nuclear bomb-induced post-apocalyptic world. In order to find a habitable place to live, an African Federation called the Council of 9 ships a man named Adam (Bex) to another planet in hopes of finding a new home for humanity.
The film will premiere in Ghana on January 5, 2024. The filmmakers are currently looking for a company to distribute the film in the United States.
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