{"id":11252,"date":"2020-12-04T10:31:59","date_gmt":"2020-12-04T08:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/?p=11252"},"modified":"2020-12-04T10:32:01","modified_gmt":"2020-12-04T08:32:01","slug":"rogue-its-megan-fox-vs-lion-and-al-shabab-in-new-showmax-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/blog\/2020\/12\/04\/rogue-its-megan-fox-vs-lion-and-al-shabab-in-new-showmax-film\/","title":{"rendered":"Rogue: It’s Megan Fox VS Lion And al-Shabab In New Showmax Film"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Showmax has just released Rogue, starring Teen Choice winner and People\u2019s Choice nominee Megan Fox (Transformers, Jennifer\u2019s Body) as Sam O\u2019Hara, who leads a team of mercenaries on a mission to rescue an ambassador\u2019s daughter kidnapped by al-Shabaab. When their plan goes south, the mercenaries find themselves out of ammo and hiding out at an abandoned lion farm, having to defend themselves against both the kidnappers and an angry lion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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MJ Basset (Power, Strike Back, Ash vs Evil Dead) directs the action-adventure film, which also stars Philip Winchester (Strike Back, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit), BAFTA Rising Star winner Adam Deacon (Casualty), and South African stars Jessica Sutton (Motherland: Fort Salem, The Kissing Booth), Sisanda Henna (Trackers, Griekwastad), Brandon Auret (District 9, Elysium, Still Breathing), Kenneth Fok (Warrior) and Greg Kriek (Black Mirror), one of South Africa\u2019s busiest actors, with over 50 international screen credits to his name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While Megan has turned down numerous military films since Transformers, she accepted Rogue partly because of the attraction of coming to Africa. \u201cI felt like my life was going to change going to Africa,\u201d Fox told New York Daily News. \u201cAnd I didn\u2019t know why; I just knew that I had to do this project for some reason.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The decision paid off. \u201cMegan Fox in Rogue redefines her reputation and career,\u201d says Refinery29, who add that the film \u201cstraddles the two phases of Megan Fox\u2019s life: her early days as an action star too often used as a prop for the male gaze, and her future as a woman taking charge of her own destiny\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As Basset told Refinery29, \u201c[I wanted] to make Megan credible, rather than this sex object that\u2019s she so frequently used for by male filmmakers\u2026 I said, \u2018There\u2019s no romance in here; you\u2019re not wearing skimpy T-shirts or short-shorts. You\u2019re carrying full battle rattle, and I\u2019m going to expect you to get dirty and bruised.\u2019 She was quite excited by that, to be honest.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While ultimately an escapist action movie, Rogue also spotlights the abuse of lions in Africa. \u201cThis film is fiction,\u201d says Basset, who wrote the movie as a passion project with her daughter, Isabel, who has a cameo in the film. \u201cBut the facts are that in 2019 there were over 12 000 lions in \u2018farms\u2019 in South Africa. Though this is legal, most are being kept in appalling conditions before being killed for their skins, bones and other body parts to supply traditional medicine markets. Cubs are bred and used for petting zoos until too old to handle before being shipped for slaughter or used in \u2018canned\u2019 hunting. It is a disgrace and should be stopped.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As The Guardian wrote about Rogue, \u201cIf hit Netflix documentary Tiger King had you championing the big cat cause, here\u2019s the animal rights-respecting action-thriller you should watch next\u2026\u201d They called it \u201can energetic action thriller\u201d where \u201cthe action rattles along\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The award-winning South African crew includes South African Film and Television Award winners Brendan Barnes as director of photography; Waldemar Coetsee as production designer; and Theola Booyens as hair and makeup designer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The SA-UK film is a co-production between MultiChoice, Capstone and Mannequin, with Lionsgate Home Entertainment handling distribution in North America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Showmax has just released Rogue, starring Teen Choice winner and People\u2019s Choice nominee Megan Fox (Transformers, Jennifer\u2019s Body) as Sam O\u2019Hara, who leads a team of mercenaries on a mission to rescue an ambassador\u2019s daughter kidnapped by al-Shabaab. When their plan goes south, the mercenaries find themselves out of ammo and hiding out at an… Continue reading Rogue: It’s Megan Fox VS Lion And al-Shabab In New Showmax Film<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,97],"tags":[110],"class_list":["post-11252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","category-online","tag-showmax","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}