New Franz Marx TV thriller for SA

[Sting]

Note the descriptions: "Shaleen Surtie-Richards as an experienced detective" and "Christina Storm as a lesbian prostitute" - where's the experience???

Philip de Bruin

Cape Town – A new thriller series is being planned for local television by TV and film producer, Franz Marx.

It will feature model and actress Christina Storm as a lesbian prostitute, and veteran actor Shaleen Surtie-Richards as an experienced detective investigating serial murders.

The new TV series has provisionally been called Flesh.

The project is still in its early days, and Marx's production company, Franz Marx Films, is not releasing any details.

But Die Burger heard from insiders that filming of the pilot episode of Flesh recently finished and that TV stations were now being approached.

As soon as a green light was obtained, the filming of the rest of the series could begin.

Psychological thriller

When news about the new series was leaked, there were rumours that it would be a "gay series". In reality, it is more of a psychological thriller.

However, some of the actors will be playing gay characters, such as Storm and Gert van Schalkwyk, better known as the pilot Jacques in the soapie Egoli.

The series is set in Cape Town, and starts with the naked body of a young man being thrown out of a car late at night at the foot of the Jan van Riebeeck statue.

More bodies of young men are found, and detective Penelope de Vos (Surtie-Richards) realises she's dealing with a serial killer who targets gay men.

David Rees (Niek Naudé in Egoli), plays a wealthy wine farmer who is seen as one of the suspects, along with his wife, Tiffany Kelly (Sonet in Egoli).

Other well-known actors who play roles in the pilot episode are Ashley Dowds, Jill Middelkop, (the sex-obsessed Jansie Jansen in Egoli) and a model, Leigh, who plays a lesbian prostitute.

 

[HBee]

I'll give it a wide miss.

 

[ryu]

.... i doubt it will be any good.

 

[RazedInBlack]

So its Egoli disguised as a thriller!

 

[Fiekus]

Not for me thanks... never been a fan of Egoli anyway

 

[Kaleb]

omg this sounds like one of those horrible movies etv broadcasts on a saturday night ,I hope this crap gets cancelled.

 

[MisterBigglesworth]

What a load of kuk...anyone else notice that so many are from eGoli?? Glorified version of eGoli....erm...no thanks...will skip this kark...

 

[BLIXEMPIE]

Franz Marx has an obsession with homosexuality it seems. It was the moment when he brought in a gay couple in Egoli that the show started to fail.

 

[Kaleb]

Im guessing all the housewives in vanderbijl park or brakpan are jumping for joy over a new frank Marx show.

 

[Sting]

And all the 'tannies met die keppies' will be lodging complaints at the BCCSA for the 'vile' content!!!

 

[Kaleb]

yeah they will be screeming '' the show is santanic''

 

[Picard]

The world is being overrun with poofters thesedays.

 

[Kaleb]

agreed Im sick of the pussifacation of our society.

 

[ponder]

Note the descriptions: "Shaleen Surtie-Richards as an experienced detective"...

Would be torture if you made me watch that cow.