{"id":49363,"date":"2026-04-13T08:58:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T08:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=49363"},"modified":"2026-04-13T08:58:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T08:58:00","slug":"iko-uwais-joe-taslim-to-star-in-indonesia-film-joint-ventures-slate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=49363","title":{"rendered":"Iko Uwais, Joe Taslim to Star in Indonesia Film Joint Venture&#8217;s Slate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tAsia Media Alliance Group and Nation Pictures have formally launched a joint venture to develop and produce genre films from <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/indonesia\/\" id=\"auto-tag_indonesia\" data-tag=\"indonesia\">Indonesia<\/a> and Southeast Asia for global audiences, with a slate that includes <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/iko-uwais\/\" id=\"auto-tag_iko-uwais\" data-tag=\"iko-uwais\">Iko Uwais<\/a>\u2018 action vehicle \u201cPendekar: Warrior,\u201d an Indonesian remake of Korean hit \u201cThe Man From Nowhere\u201d starring <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/joe-taslim\/\" id=\"auto-tag_joe-taslim\" data-tag=\"joe-taslim\">Joe Taslim<\/a>, and \u201cThe Good Samaritan,\u201d a Jakarta-set feature directed by Pierre Morel and starring Daisy Ridley.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe venture unites John Radel, the producer and cinematographer behind Asia Media Alliance Group, with Delon Tio, the Jakarta-based producer who heads Nation Pictures. Hong Kong-based producer Mike Leeder of Red Packet Media is also collaborating with the partnership. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe companies\u2019 most recent collaboration, \u201cExtraction: Tygo\u201d \u2013 a spin-off from the Netflix action franchise starring Don Lee and Lisa of <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/blackpink\/\" id=\"auto-tag_blackpink\" data-tag=\"blackpink\">Blackpink<\/a> \u2013 wrapped principal photography in Jakarta following a shoot that encompassed major city road closures for large-scale action sequences. That production serves as the springboard for a broader slate the partners say is already taking shape.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tFirst among the new projects is \u201cPendekar: Warrior,\u201d currently in pre-production, which is designed as a <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/film\/news\/iko-uwais-indonesian-action-film-warrior-silat-1236667151\/\">silat-driven action feature for Uwais<\/a>. Also confirmed is the Indonesian remake of \u201cThe Man From Nowhere,\u201d the widely seen Korean action film, for which the companies have secured the local remake rights. Taslim is set to star, with action filmmaker Kenji Tanigaki \u2013 whose credits include \u201cThe Furious\u201d \u2013 in talks to direct. \u201cThe Good Samaritan,\u201d meanwhile, brings together Morel, the director of \u201cTaken,\u201d with Ridley, produced by Renee Tab and Marina Grasic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tRadel, whose past credits as producer and cinematographer include Dev Patel\u2019s \u201cMonkey Man,\u201d Michael Mann\u2019s \u201cBlackhat\u201d and \u201cThe Night Comes for Us,\u201d said: \u201cI have always believed that Southeast Asia, and Indonesia in particular, would become not only a destination for production, but a true creative home for filmmakers and artists to make the kinds of movies the world wants to see. That moment is now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tTio, whose producing credits include cult horror title \u201cMacabre,\u201d added: \u201cCinema has moved beyond language barriers. What matters now is creating films with heart, ambition, identity, and scale that truly bring audiences into the theatre.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tLeeder, whose action credits span \u201cThe Raid 2,\u201d \u201cMan of Tai Chi\u201d and \u201cTriple Threat\u201d and who is currently producing Korean action comedy \u201cBelladonna,\u201d rounds out the venture\u2019s core producing team.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/film\/news\/iko-uwais-joe-taslim-indonesia-film-joint-venture-1236720117\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asia Media Alliance Group and Nation Pictures have formally launched a joint venture to develop and produce genre films from Indonesia and Southeast Asia for global&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49364,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertaonment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/49364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}