EbonyLife Films has released the Toronto International Film Festival trailer for its forthcoming film produced in collaboration with Netflix, Elesin Oba: The King’s Horseman. Elesin Oba is adapted for the screens by Biyi Bandele and is based on the 1975 Wole Soyinka play, Death And The King’s Horseman.
Executive produced by Mo Abudu and directed by Biyi Bandele, the film, which will be the first Yoruba language film to premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival this September, stars Odunlade Adekola, Shaffy Bello, Olawale ‘Brymo’ Olofooro, Deyemi Okanlawon, Omowunmi Dada, Jide Kosoko, Mark Elderkin, Jenny Stead, Langley Kirkwood, Kevin Ushi, Drikus Volschenk and Fares Boulos ‘Oyibo Rebel’. Ajoke Silva and Taiwo Ajai-Lycett are special guest appearances. Elesin Oba: The King’s Horseman is produced by Judith Audu, Adeola Osunkojo, James Amuta and Quinty Pillay.
Synopsis
In the Oyo Empire in the 1940s, Elesin Oba, the king’s chief horseman, succumbs to the lure of beauty and sexual desire on the very evening he is set to die in order to fulfill his lifelong debt of ritual suicide to accompany the dead Alaafin to the realm of the ancestors, derailing from a very important generational and spiritual transaction. This sets in motion a series of catastrophic consequences!
No release date yet for the Elesin Oba, but you can watch the trailer below.
