Comic Panji Is Adapted Becomes An Animated Film Set In The 15th Century

Panji Pemain Lihat (Puput Puji/VOI)

JAKARTA - Hans Jaladara's comic was adapted into the film Panji Kutul. This film tells the story of the fictional world of the early 15th century, an attrition war is raging. A warrior named PANJI did not find peace even though he had defended his wife's death.

He tried to end his life, but his black magic stopped him. Panji luntung ventured around until he met BRAMANTYA, who offered him a way out of a life full of regret. Bramantya, the older brother of the NAGAMAS (Panji teacher), asked Panji to find LEMBUGIRI, his younger brother who was kidnapped by KALAWERENG bandits who also seized the Adidaya Heritage, a mythological weapon that had the power to lift the curse of Panji.

Together with KUWUK, a coward soldier, and GANTARI, an innocent warrior girl, Panji followed Bramantya into the Kalawereng power forest. Thanks to Kuwuk's direction, they arrived at the location where Lembugiri was ambushed. However, Kalawereng has been waiting. At that time, Bramantya was stabbed by Lembugiri and turned out to have faked her death to seize the heirloom key.

The four realized that they had to save the world from the abuse of the heirloom by Lembugiri who intended to use the Adidaya heirloom to stop the war and become the sole ruler. The director of the animated film Panji Limbung revealed, an iconic work that is legendary. For that, he feels honored to be working on this film.

For me, Panji is one of the iconic works in the country and by making it in an animated format will maximize my main vision of exploring the beauty of the comic by Hans Jaladara. The animation format will maximize the depiction of the world and action scenes so that viewers can feel the sensation of an adventure in a comic story with an improved scale and adapted to the tastes of today," he said.

This combination is expected to provide a new taste for Indonesian film audiences. The production of this animation work will take 12 months and involve 250 creators from various disciplines. Starting from screenwriters, concept artists, animators, to editors and sound designers. The skull banner is a story about the rediscovery of identity. An original story. This story will talk to viewers of various ages, both young spectators who do not know the banner of the skull, as well as those who already know and love the skull banner.

Falcon Pictures producer, Frederica revealed that it took a long process, not to finally decide that the Panji film was worked on in an animated manner. Panji Milik is an iconic Indonesian super hero who is legendary. For that, we are working on it seriously, so that later this figure can be known to more groups," he said.

Denny Sumargo admitted, through his Panji, he had a new experience during his career in entertainment. "A great experience, well, I was able to get the opportunity to try something new. Doing something I have never done was voice acting. I personally know enough about the character of Panji Temgkorak when I was little. So, my love for this comic also makes me very excited," he explained.

Senior actor Donny Damara hopes that the Panji film can be a trigger for Indonesian animated films to develop even more rapidly. "This is my first strangulation. It turns out that it is not easy to make animated films. Hopefully, through Panji's film, it will trigger filmmakers to produce more animated films," he explained.

Meanwhile, Aghniny Haque admitted that he needed more preparation to get involved in the Panji film. "It's fun, the most important preparation for me is voting. The difficulty is that we have to imagine what kind of character we play, then our voices get into trouble," he explained.

Donny Alamsyah also felt that he did not expect to be a part of this film. Because, there are many new things that are obtained when working on this film. Through this film, I get a lot of new experiences. One of them, I have to learn to breathe. And I think this is more difficult than shooting movies normally," he said.

The Panji film is planned to be released in cinemas throughout Indonesia soon.