Irish Crew Board ‘East is East’ Sequel
28 Sep 2009 :
East is East Tweet Assassin Films and the BBC’s ‘West is West’, the sequel to Damien O’Donnell’s 1999 feature ‘East is East’, is to start production this coming October and features several Irish crew members. The film’s Irish contingent includes Peter Robertson as director of photography for the film, Simon Willis is the project’s sound record artist and Stephen O’Connell is the film’s editor. Principal photography of ‘West is West’ starts in October and the team plan to film in Manchester for one week and then move on to Pakistan for five weeks. 'West is West’, directed by Andy De Emmony and produced by Leslee Udwin, is a coming of age story of both 13 year old Sajid and also of his father, 60 year old George (‘Ghengis’) Khan. The sequel, like the first film, is based on and inspired by autobiographical events, will take the Khan family on a journey from Salford, England to rural Pakistan. The screenplay for ‘West is West’ was written by Ayub Khan-Din. The film will see the return of several cast members of the first film including Om Puri, Linda Bassett, Jimi Mistry, Emil Marwa, Lesley Nicoll, Ila Arun and Veejay Raaz. The general release date for the film is hoped to be in May 2010. Free Industry Newsletter Subscribe to IFTN's industry newsletter - it's free and e-mailed directly to your inbox every week. Click here to sign up.

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