Kayode Kasum Uncovers Exciting Teaser for ‘Soòlé’

Ferdinand Ekechukwu

Filmmaker Kayode Kasum has released the first teaser for his forthcoming feature film titled ‘Soòlé’. Kasum released the exciting teaser done in black and white on his social media, revealing some of the film’s key cast. The movie, produced by Lou-Ellen Clara Film and Adunni Ade as the executive producer, stars Nollywood bigwigs such as Sola Sobowale, Saidi Balogun, Femi Jacobs, Adedimeji Lateef, Soibifaa Dokubo, Tope Tedela, Meg Otanwa, and Bukunmi Oluwasina.

The cast also include Kelechi Udegbe, Shawn Faqua, Gold Ikponwonsa, Teniola Aladese, Eso Dike, JBlaze, and Odera Olivia Orji. The teaser also hints on the film’s plot which follows the story of strangers who become entangled in a cat-and-mouse game on their journey to the eastern part of Nigeria. ‘Soole’ is a story about different people with different lives on a road trip to Enugu for Christmas.

Their paths change when they discover a bag on the bus. In a chat with this reporter, Kasum, a movie-cum-video director, reveals why the teaser dropped in black and white, which one had thought it depicts the time it was set.

He explains: “The first teaser is in black and white because what a black and white picture does to your images is it changes the tone, changes the atmosphere, it changes the whole film thematically. And what we wanted to do was make the film look dreamlike.

“When I say dreamlike we wanted to make the teaser look dreamlike so that people who have been in Soole’s before can kind of feel a bit of….so the pictures could resonate with them for it to feel like we are taking you back in time to when you took soole; for you to remember one time in your life when you enter soole and that’s why it seem black and white. Also because of the title of the film and most of our people are from the west it also made a lot of sense the person that will be saying the voice over for the teaser had to be an Igbo character because Soole is a film with different languages that everybody can understand.”

He also spoke on the inspiration behind the movie: “We were kind of having a session at Filmtrybe, which is my production company in terms of stories that we wanted to create for the year, and we had thought about it. I had also had a personal experience one day when I was working and I took a night bus from Abuja to Lagos, so the bus had to park on the road because they were robbing in front and a lot of different people in the bus started talking about their life stories and places they were going and why they took the night bus. And I just knew one day I was going to do something like that and thank God for the writer of the film, Steve Okonkwo. He was so good merging our ideas and his ideas together to make this fantastic film. Also kudos should go to Adunni Ade for listening to our story and thinking it was worthy to put on the big screen.” ‘Soòlé’ will start screening in cinemas nationwide on November 26, 2021.