Nick Ray has spent nearly three many years in Cambodia the place he established Hanuman Movies along with his spouse Kulikar Sotho and so they have since labored on productions large and small with Hollywood stars, tv actors and presenters.
They’ve ranged from Angelina Jolie and Daniel Craig in “Tomb Raider,” launched in 2001, to more moderen work with Man Pearce, Jeremy Clarkson and Gordon Ramsay. Hanuman has additionally produced its personal award-winning movies like “The Final Reel.”
Ray spoke with The Diplomat’s Luke Hunt about his household’s manufacturing firm which incorporates location scouting, filming and companies for Nationwide Geographic, Netflix, Paramount and the BBC.
He additionally urges authorities in Phnom Penh to be much less delicate about content material and what international administrators make – and as an alternative make the most of this nation’s colonial structure and pure magnificence to advertise Cambodia as a vacation spot for filmmakers.
Competitors stays fierce however Ray says budgets seem like regular for the approaching yr with movie, documentaries, and tv collection within the planning.
Main productions underway embody “37 Heavens,” which gives a Hollywood account of an official go to to Cambodia and Angkor Wat in late 1967 by America’s former first woman Jackie Kennedy and her “transient however intense love affair” with a British diplomat, Lord David Harlech.
Different productions within the works embody additional installments of “Banged Up Overseas” – a protracted working program about crime and foreigners in Southeast Asia – which makes use of native expats as characters and has turned quite a lot of into minor celebrities.
There’s additionally a Netflix manufacturing slated for launch subsequent yr in regards to the journalists who scoured Cambodia for the British pop star and intercourse offender Gary Glitter after he moved right here within the early 2000s. Glitter was finally convicted of pedophilia.
