Kunle Afolayan disclosed the possible sequel on Channels Television’s Sunrise programme on Saturday.

“I started working on Anikulapo six years ago and I wanted to make a series because it is a story that I feel would stretch like Game of Thrones,” he said.

The 47-year-old said he pitched the idea to international streaming and production company Netflix but the firm advised him to make it a film and continue the story depending on the reception.

Asked whether the recently released movie will get a sequel, Afolayan said, “Yea; the whole world wants the story to continue.”

Anikulapo, which translates as ‘death in the pouch, centres on a stranger who strikes an illicit affair with one of the king’s young wives, which eventually gets him sentenced to death after the affair was discovered.

The deeply cultural movie featured veteran actors such as Sola Sobowale, Bimbo Ademoye, Kunle Remi, Hakeem Kae Kazeem, Taiwo Hassan, Aisha Lawal, Moji Afolayan, Adebayo Salami, Eyiyemi Afolayan, Ariyiike Dimples, Omo Ologede, Yemi Elebuibon, and many others.

Giving a behind-the-stage revelation of the movie on Saturday, Afolayan said the movie is an excerpt from Odu Ifa (Ifa literary corpus).

He said most times Muslims and Christians take lessons from chapters of the Qu’ran and Bible respectively and he thought of bringing some lessons out of a parable in Odu Ifa which is an embodiment of the Yoruba divination system.

The movie maker said his goal is to inform, entertain, educate and communicate cultural values. “I want to tell stories that capture values, cultural values, family values and all of that without necessarily neglecting the essence of why we do content which is entertainment,” he explained.

Afolayan further said that everything about the computer-generated imagery of the movie and other parts of production were done in Nigeria.

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The yet-to-be-released movie is a college drama about a female postgraduate student who has to find a way of dealing with sexual harassment from a lecturer.

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Temi Otedola, one of the daughters of billionaire Femi Otedola, will be making her acting debut in the new movie.

Also,the movie features Chairman of First Bank, Ibikun Awosika.Mrs Awosika plays herself, only this time around, Ibukun Awosika, a university faculty dean in the movie, heads the senate hearing panel of Moremi (Temi Otedola) and Lucien (Jimmy-Jean Louis).

The production of the movie began in 2018 with the pre-production, then the production in January 2020, and  on the 30th of August, the movie was officially  first private screened at the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU).

The film will be available for private screenings in September and October, 2020

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