Troye Sivan - Spud lead role - 02.February.2010
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John van de Ruit - author of 'Spud' novel
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Troye plays lead role in Spud - The Movie
Tuesday, 02.February.2010 Category: News
---Troye Sivan has been officially announced to play the main role of Spud, a movie based on one of the most famous South African novels, written by John Van de Ruit.
----The shootings are schedule to start in March in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, and will last for about 8 weeks.
----The movie is being produced by Rogue Star Films, a famous South African movie company based in Cape Town and responsible for the production of The Story of an African Farm (2004); U-Carmen Ekhayelitsha (2005 - awarded the Golden Bear for best film at the 55th Berlin International Film Festival); Big Fellas (2007) and Confessions of a Gambler (2008 - based on a fantastic award winning novel written by Rayda Jacobs, about a muslim woman with a gambling addiction).
----Spud - The Movie will be directed by Donovan Marsh and produced by Ross Garland (Rogue Star Films founder); Richard Green and Brad Logan. Cinematography by Lance Gewer, editing by Megan Gill and art direction by Tom Gubb.
----The movie release date is scheduled for the end of the year. Soon, the results of the last auditions will come up and the cast will be officially announced. For news on Spud, keep checking TroyeSivan.com - we will keep you posted!
'Spud' - by John van de Ruit - Penguin Books, Sept.2005 (389 pages) It's South Africa, 1990. The country still squirms under the iron fist of apartheid. Two major events are about to happen: The release of Nelson Mandela, and more importantly, it's Spud Milton's first year at an elite boys only private boarding school. Cursed with parents from well beyond the lunatic fringe, a senile granny, and a dormitory full of strange characters, Spud has to forge a new life for himself in this foreign and sometimes hostile environment. Surrounded by names such as Gecko, Rambo, Rain Man and Mad Dog, Spud takes his first tentative steps along the path towards manhood. (The path, it seems, could be a rather long road.) Armed with only his wits and his diary, Spud takes us from illegal nightswimming to the cricket field, from ghostbusting to teacher baiting. He also invites us into the mind of a boy struggling to come to terms with a strange new world; a boy whose eyes are being opened to love, friendship and complete insanity. About John van de Ruit (author) John van de Ruit is an actor, playwright and author who was educated at Michaelhouse and received an MA in Drama and Performance Studies from the University of KwaZulu-Natal. His highly successful stage production of Green Mamba and Black Mamba (in collaboration with Ben Voss) have performed to sell-out audiences around South Africa and have received numerous awards. His debut novel, Spud, was a publishing phenomenon in South Africa, smashing all local publishing records, and was awarded the Booksellers' Choice Award in 2006. Hot on the heels of Spud's release in September 2005, Spud - The Madness Continues … was released in April 2007 to rave reviews. Both books have since been published in the USA and UK to great acclaim, as well as being translated into Italian (renamed Patata), Russian and Portuguese. The penultimate book in the side-splitting series, Spud - Learning To Fly, will be released in June 2009. John's keenness for travelling has seen him backpacking through South-East Asia and the Far East at various stages of his writing process (Spud - Learning To Fly was carefully mapped and thought out on the dusty roads of Vietnam!) Rogue Star Productions has secured the screen rights to the first book, and a movie of Spud was shot at Michaelhouse in March and April 2010. Spud has crept into the hearts of readers across the world and was recently placed 11th on Exclusive Books' list of 101 Books To Read Before You Die. |
