EXCLUSIVE: There is an exclusive trailer for this drum dollthe latest Afrikaans-language drama from the Afrikaans streamer Showmax.
The series begins on December 7 and follows Luna, a talented gymnast who gets a scholarship to a prestigious private school she could never afford and enters the cutthroat world of an elite group of drum dolls, also known as Trompoppies. .’ After a hazing ritual goes horribly wrong, cheerleaders are found dead and the community’s seemingly perfect facade begins to crumble.
In the trailer, we see Luna (Melissa Myburgh) agree to spend a year on the drum set, with things going from bad to worse as people turn up dead and threatening letters reveal that a serial killer is on the loose.
drum doll is the first Showmax original from the South African Film and Television Awards and Silver Screen award-winning writer and director Etienne Fourie (Stiekit, This windmill, Temporary Terminal) and Homebrew Films, the producer of the 2023 Silver Screen winner Magda Louw, manufactured. MultiChoice has international distribution rights.
Stian Bam (The story of Racheltjie de Beer, Donkerbos) appears with Mybirgh as Luna’s widowed father. Marion Holm (Southeaster) plays an aging soap star who discovers Luna, gives her a scholarship and takes her under his wing. Albert Maritz (Everyone Malan) plays her husband and Celeste Loots (One piece) and young newcomer Luca Human play their children. Frank Opperman (GIL., Nowhere, Northern Cape), Braeden Koopt (crackhead), Daneel van der Walt (Recipes for Love and Murder, Nowhere, Northern Cape), Armand Aucamp (One piece), Cantona James, Jane de Wet (The girl from St Agnes, Griekwastad, Spoorloos), Elzet Nel (Vaseline, Magda Louw) and Zandelle Meyer (Dutch citizens) also appears.
“It’s a wild ride, but it’s pure entertainment, a crime thriller designed to keep you on the edge of your seat, to thrill you, to be the first to know what’s going to happen before you friends and colleagues,” says Fourie, who designs drum doll to appeal to a wider audience than his art house project at the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival Stiekyt. “I wanted my mother to be able to see it, my sisters, my friends: everyone should be able to see it and be surprised and entertained.”
Illness is one of his films on Showmax.
Source: Deadline
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