For a world grown weary of familiar superheroes, fear not! A new hero is on the way — and he’s made out of poop.
The Excreman – On the Road is the working title of a new production from Hong Kong’s Bliss Concepts, the company that produced the massive McDull franchise in the early 2000s, and it’s been among the most talked about productions at this year’s Hong Kong-Asia Film Financing Forum (HAF) program.
“It’s a story about life in the sewer, and how the creatures there are fighting to survive,” said producer and Bliss Concepts gm Samuel Choy. “They create an Exreman hero to save them but when he becomes human he discovers life among the humans is the same as it was in the sewers.”
My Life as McDull was a huge hit in Hong Kong and across Asia in 2001, winning awards at home and abroad and collecting an estimated HK$14 million ($1.8 million) from the domestic box office. It followed the travails of a lovable little pig as…