2 Million Dollars Movie On Majek Fashek By Charles Novia

November produces film on Majek Fashek

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Charles Novia, the man who brought reggae musician, Majek Fashek’s career from the brink back into reckoning is ready to take many more giant steps in his quest to position the musician as one of Nigeria’s entertainment legend.
Convinced that Majek is an indestructible commodity, he has begun a move to produce a film on the life and times of the Edo-state born musician whose career suffered a terrible set-back a while ago. Novia would have a lot of experience to draw from following his successful production of a film on Pastor Enoch Adeboye of the Redeemed Christian Church of God.

This is coming at a time that Majek Fashek has dropped another mega single hit: Am Not Tired. This single, though pre-released in the 90s, is dedicated to the 800 souls that were roasted end of December during the oil pipe blast at Egbeda, Lagos. Majek Fashek, considered the voice of a disenfranchised generation, was on a performance engagement in Calabar when the unfortunate and preventable accident occurred. He quickly returned to Lagos and went to the studios to record this tribute. "This is very sad, my people burning like garbage, can you imagine human beings being roasted like goat, why did the government ran an oil pipeline in a densely populated area without evacuation and medical emergency plans in case of accidents as this, baffles me, my people died painfully. We must mourn them". Am Not Tired holds a lot of promise in the market. The single was recorded, mastered and mixed at Riverdale Records Studios, Ikeja Lagos. Majek collaborated with Nigeria's rising young and talented producer, Serge and music producer, Ed Jatto for this project.

The single hits the radio stations across the nation soon. The video is expected to air on TV stations afterwards. The single and full CD are being released by November Records and November Entertain-ment.
Before his return to US earlier in the week alongside his US/Africa manager Azuka Jebose-Molokwu, Majek thanked Governor Donald Duke and the people of Cross Rivers State for their hospitality and the privilege to perform at this year's Christmas Festival. "It was an honor to perform in this beautiful city, Just when Corporate Nigeria turned their backs on me, Gov Donald Duke and the people of Calabar stood firm and gave me a chance to showcase my creativity to this beautiful state, Gov Duke gave me a chance, He never doubted nor questioned my state of mind and I truly appreciate this".

source;http://www.nollywood.net/vbee/showthread.php?t=940


i saw this article and i was wondering to myself if majek's biography is a right project to undertake when nigeria has soo many stories that will make a good epic,besides he has been given several chances which he blew and i don't think he should be idolised by spending about 2 million dollars making a film about him(as reported on ait)please post your views if you think there are other worthy and eminent nigerians to make a movie about or if you think majek fashek is worth being made a film about

seriously . . .  what kind of question is this?

has Majek Fashek lived an interesting life?

yes, he has.

could the story of his life form the basis for an entertaining movie?

yes, it could.

so-oooooo . . . what is the issue here? whether or not Majek's *moral* character is up to snuff for you?

you say that he has has many chances and has blown them . . . what does that have to do with them making a movie about him?

who do you think is more worthy of having a movie made about them? please tell.

i dey one side,wetin dey shele men

why not someone that matters like abacha or ibb or ken saro wiwa?  this is a mistake.

(i just realized that this article is more than a year old--i knew it rang familiar!--why are we even talking about this now?)

ken saro wiwa would have been a good one as well,especially with the message he was passing across,the cause he was fighting for and what is happening now,so it ll be a movie as well as a political awareness thing

Hint: if the people who are going to watch the movie (i.e. us) think Majek is not worthy, then he's not worthy.  UPDATE: You're right, it's a year old.  Thank goodness the movie was not wasted!

obviously i cannot afford to make that movie or i wont be posting it on here but making my money talk for me,by all means he can as im just expressing my own view and as u can see with the few people that have posted on here you are the only one in agreement.

i don't know where the source of the hollywood producers optioning fela's mvovie rights came from ,but ill appreciate a source or link as i don't believe that.
well maybe you don't know felas  history,but fela was the only authentic export on the same par as bob marley and only death and his family not being knowledgable about marketing and adverts of his memorabilia made him not as known outside nigeria as he should have been,he took strays,runaways and what not into his house and fed and clothed them ncludn giving them a job,and if you go through all his songs in the 70s,80s,you will know he can has predicted everything happening now in nigeria/africa,now i don't know what chance he was given and he blew but i think you v got him mixed up with someone else.

of course fela led a life that was not totally responsible but then when u look at his negatives don't focus on them but check out his positives as well and the impact of the man in nigeria,he has been fighting social injustice before the likes of them gani,falana and co,he left his comfort zone of a priviledged background and chose to chill with the common nigerians and fight for their rights when it wasnt fashionable to do so,and as to him being worthy of being honoured u need to check out the people that recognise and acknowledge fela worlwide,plus the fact that hollywood producers are even interested in the rights to his bio movie even though i v not heard that before has already answered your question,as they saw other nigerians before going for fela.

like the post above said,the general nigerians will be watching the movies and it ll be a shame if the film bombs in nigeria as im sure charles novia's backers will be wary of committing themselves again and if the total funds his solely his then im sure he ll be realli hesitant to commit such funds again and it ll be a waste.

well like i have been trying to reiterate all along in this thread,i personally don't think his life is interesting enough to warrant a film being made about him,neither do i think his story will make the basis of an entertaining movie(note that personally being the operative word here)if going by his life a talented reggea artise goes to the united states,hooks up with the wrong set of people and gets on drugs,soo many people try to help him out yet he goes back to the same old thing,and now he is back on the streets.

my personal view is just that,my own view,its left for charles novia if he feels that sure of the film for him to do it which i don't think he does IF YOU ASK ME as its been floating for a year like you pointed out,that should tell you something about the project.

i don't have the imdbpro account,will appreciate a link or some source tho if you do have to read up on it.

well then if you r writing a book about him,im sure you know that when it comes to fela's independence both artistic and in every other way,fela will rather tell any foreign record company to walk rather than compromise on his ideals and africanness,and i don't see any point here that contradicts or disagrees with my reasons for him not being as great as bob marley,marley may have compromised but fela not compromising doesnt mean he isnt on par with bob marley,personally that is some trait to be admired in a world where most people easily compromise at the smell of dollars or pounds.

dyu know how many people he was feeding,you're talking about him not paying them well,are they not living of the fela brand now there are many drummers better than tony allen but hes gotten so big in france  because of fela,also fela's organisation if i can call it that wasnt about a profit making thing only like the sunny ades,and co, its a movement and ideals but i wont go into that as im sure you knw already,there was an incident i was told when bash ali was trying to spray him with dollars and he politely told him to sit down and as long as you're in fela's shrine,both white ,black,rich poor are all equal where can u get that,how long was the campaign for?hes gone past all that and done other stuffs after the campaign.

the whole thing about the whole song wasnt fela being irresposible,what he stood for all his life was his independent africanness,and thats the whole thing about the condom song,on the flip side how r bout the catholic church against the use of comdoms and other massive christian movements?
if you're on about that note of him dieing of aids,then u need to see his burial video clips which u might have come across where beko was telling all his fans that fela died of aids,so a lot of good has already come out of him dieing of aids and when u know fela's mix of followership,you ll know anything concerning him and beko making that announcement at fela's burial and in toher fela remembrance celebrations will reach more young people that any other public person both dead or alive,so yes that can be celebrated as well cause a positive came out of the negative.

stop getting all personal dude,if you're related to charles novia,im only making my own observations so i know its his biz waxx not mine,and he can't make a fela movie seeing as hollywood producers have the syndicated film rights?as u said

Never argue with combrazor.  You can't win, and it doesn't matter whether you are right or wrong.

@combrazor
dude,i thought you r a chilled out n sensible kind of person thats why i got into all these dialogue,but seems like you always get in a hump and spit out your bib if a discussion is not going your way,i wouldnt dignify all you have written with a reply of equal substance as i don't do insults and like i noted earlier you seem to be taking it personal,if we were standing face to face im sure you ll have gotten violent a long time ago so in order that you ll stop with the insults ill ignore the whole drivel and ill like you to know that in an intellectual discussion,and for something you claimed to have a knowledge of,shouldnt take you this much insults and stuffs to convince me or anyone on here considering im a nobody and a novice as it seems more like forcing your ideas down your listeners throats and apart from the imd pro thingy i havnt seen any shred of evidence to show that you know more than i do yet



thanks man,im kind of new so guess im learning the ropes


naw man,nothing personal as i don't know either the novia man,fela or any of the rest lol its all  discussion s

It's because you're only interested in winning and you never get tired.  You don't care about the actual truth.

Okay! 

and for lucabrasi, who claimed that Charles Novia does not know what he is doing because you have not heard anything about the movie in the past year . . .  like i said before, it seems you don't know how much work, preparation and fundraising goes into putting together a project like this, but here's some news for you:

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Francis Duru to play Majek Fashek in new movie
By Samod biobaku
Sunday, April 13, 2008

When Charles Novia told us some years ago that he is going to make a movie on the life and time of international reggae icon, Majek Fashek those of us who know him as a man who keep his words took him serious but after two years we thought the producer of Missing Angel had given up on the dream.

However he seems to ready to live the dream as Francis Duru has been cast to play the role of Majek Fashek in the new movie which shooting will commence in September.

The movie is a 2million dollar budget and will be shot on celluloid. Novia says he is not following the trend rather he is trying to contribute his quota to the industry. It will be shot in America and Nigeria, the two places that shaped the life of the reggae star.

The story of the reggae actist is of course as complicated as the man, Majek himself. But Novia would only be contented with telling the story from the angle of Tina, the woman who has weathered various storm with the man whom many believed caused his own downfall. Novia will also try tell us what he claims to be misconceptions many of us have about the man.

Until the shooting commences in September we might not be able to say much about it. Of course we hope to get Novia talk more about the project.

The project is self-sponsored and he hopes sponsors would show up and stop paying lip service to Nollywood.

i don't think celluloid is a good idea either, especially for Nigerian distribution, but you never know . . .

sometimes the decision is really up to the financiers. Novia says it's entirely self-sponsored, but somehow i find it hard to imagine that he actually has two million dollars of his own money to spend on this.

if some of the people who are putting up money say they want it on celluloid (and there are a number of reasons why they would prefer this), then that's the way he has to go.

it's not entirely a bad thing: i just hope that spending on film does not take away from the money they need to spend on art direction (which is a HUGE concern when you're dealing with biopics that narratively span a number of years)