{"id":184245,"date":"2018-10-04T07:31:58","date_gmt":"2018-10-04T11:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=184245"},"modified":"2018-10-04T07:31:58","modified_gmt":"2018-10-04T11:31:58","slug":"erik-matti-will-no-longer-direct-new-darna-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/10\/04\/erik-matti-will-no-longer-direct-new-darna-film\/","title":{"rendered":"Erik Matti will no longer direct new &#8216;Darna&#8217; film"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_184246\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-184246\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Erik-Matti.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-184246\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Erik-Matti.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"639\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Erik-Matti.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Erik-Matti-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Erik-Matti-768x511.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-184246\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: Filmmaker Erik Matti. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DirekErikMatti\/photos\/a.386657441392046\/990608740996910\/?type=3&amp;theater\">Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DirekErikMatti\/?tn-str=k*F\">Erik Matti\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The audience has expected the prominent filmmaker Erik Matti to direct the new movie of Mars Ravelo&#8217;s iconic superheroine &#8216;Darna.&#8217; The latter, however, seems to disappoint the moviegoers&#8217; expectation with this news.<\/p>\n<p>Kane Errol Choa, head of the ABS-CBN Corporate Communications, on Thursday, October 4, announced that Erik is resigning from the much-awaited Star Cinema film.<\/p>\n<p>Why did Erik decide to part ways in the filming of &#8216;Darna?&#8217; Kane said among the reasons was because of the &#8220;creative differences&#8221; and to allow the director to &#8220;work on his other projects&#8221; under his own production company, Reality Entertainment.<\/p>\n<p>Despite Erik&#8217;s exit, ABS-CBN and Star Cinema &#8220;are fully committed to bringing the iconic character to the big screen for today&#8217;s generation of moviegoers to witness the story of the well-loved Pinoy comic superhero.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As for Erik&#8217;s replacement, Kane has not yet named anyone as of writing, but said that the new director will be announced soon.<\/p>\n<p>It was way back in 2014 when the upcoming movie adaptation of &#8216;Darna&#8217; was announced, with Kapamilya actress Angel Locsin being the superheroine once again.<\/p>\n<p>The viewers probably won\u2019t forget how Angel excellently portrayed the &#8216;Darna&#8217; role in 2005 that&#8217;s why many of them were hyped up after knowing that the actress will be flying again to save the world from the baddies.<\/p>\n<p>But due to a spine injury, Angel had to pass Darna&#8217;s mythical stone to another lucky lady.<\/p>\n<p>It was then announced in 2017 that Liza Soberano, one of the sought-after actresses in today&#8217;s generation, will be the one who will wear Darna&#8217;s red battle gear. Angel earlier revealed that Liza was her &#8220;first choice&#8221; to succeed the role.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The audience has expected the prominent filmmaker Erik Matti to direct the new movie of Mars Ravelo&#8217;s iconic superheroine &#8216;Darna.&#8217; &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":184246,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-entertainment-ph","mauthors-joanna-belle-deala","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}