LIVE UPDATES: Remembering Nora Aunor, Famous person and Nationwide Artist
Filipino actress Nora Aunor poses along with her trophy after profitable the Finest Actress Award for her film “Thy Womb” on the Asian Movie Awards as a part of the thirty seventh Hong Kong Worldwide Movie Pageant in Hong Kong on Monday, March 18, 2013. Picture: AP Photograph/Kin Cheung
A biopic masking the lifetime of the late Nora Aunor has been in “preliminary talks,” though it has been placed on maintain following her loss of life, in accordance with filmmaker Joel Lamangan.
The actor-director bared Aunor’s upcoming biopic throughout an ambush interview on Sunday, April 20, when requested concerning the subject.
On Friday, April 18, Lamangan stated on Fb that he and Nationwide Artist Ricky Lee have been discussing a potential “Nora Aunor Story” biopic, and {that a} producer has joined the helm.
“Meron kaming pinagusapan sanang importanteng pelikula na isusulat ng kaibigan naming si Ricky Lee — ang Nora Aunor Story. Nakausap namin ang prodyuser, naghihintay lamang ng tamang panahon. Sayang wala na si ate Man pero itutuloy namin yon,” he stated.
(We’ve been speaking about an essential movie that our buddy, Ricky Lee, will write — the Nora Aunor story. We’ve been in talks with a producer. We’re simply ready for the proper time. Sadly, Ate Man is not with us, however we’ll push via with it.)
Days later, the filmmaker instructed reporters that Aunor had already been included within the biopic’s first spherical of conferences earlier than her loss of life.
“Sa mga unang assembly kasama siya, eh nawala na siya. Ibang uri na pong pag-uusapan ang gagawin,” he stated on the sidelines of the Nationwide Artist’s wake on Sunday, April 20. “Naka-hold, wala pang kongkretong plano. Meron namang preliminary na pag-uusap.”
(She was a part of the primary spherical of conferences. However she’s gone now. We’ll most likely have a unique spherical of discussions. It’s on maintain, there aren’t any concrete plans. There have been preliminary talks of it, nonetheless.)
WATCH: Filmmaker Joel Lamangan stated there have been “preliminary talks” for a Nora Aunor biopic, which is able to presumably be divided into two phases of her life.
Lamangan additionally reiterated that an “audition” will happen on who will painting the late Aunor. | @HMallorcaINQ pic.twitter.com/2ZogJFrEr2
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Lamangan additionally hinted that the biopic will cowl “two phases” of Aunor’s life, and auditions shall be held to find out who will painting the display veteran.
Aunor died of acute respiratory failure on April 16 at 71. Her stays lie at Heritage Park in Taguig till Tuesday morning, April 22, with public viewing on Black Saturday and Easter Sunday. Her wake attracted Noranians from completely different elements of the nation, with some even touring from Visayas and Mindanao simply to get a glimpse of the late Famous person.
Necrological companies shall be held on Tuesday morning on the Metropolitan Theater (MET).
As nationwide artist, she was accorded a state funeral organized by the Nationwide Fee for Tradition and Arts, with a state funeral, culminating in rites earlier than her interment on the Libingan ng mga Bayani additionally on Tuesday.
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