The stars of The Pirates of Somalia, including Evan Peters, Melanie Griffith and Barkhad Abdi, gathered Wednesday night at Hollywood's Tcl Chinese Theatre for the film's premiere.
The drama is based on the real-life story of Canadian rookie journalist Jay Bahadur, who moved to Somalia in 2008 to join the local pirates and write stories about the men's lives. Bahadur penned a book on his journey, also titled The Pirates of Somalia, which was released in 2011.
Peters, known for his shape-shifting roles on TV's American Horror Story, portrays Bahadur and faced many of the same challenges as the journalist...
The drama is based on the real-life story of Canadian rookie journalist Jay Bahadur, who moved to Somalia in 2008 to join the local pirates and write stories about the men's lives. Bahadur penned a book on his journey, also titled The Pirates of Somalia, which was released in 2011.
Peters, known for his shape-shifting roles on TV's American Horror Story, portrays Bahadur and faced many of the same challenges as the journalist...
- 12/7/2017
- by Kirsten Chuba
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Warning: Spoilers ahead! Do not proceed if you haven't watched the season finale of American Horror Story: Cult.
Evan Peters is opening up about his "most difficult" season of American Horror Story yet.
During an exclusive interview with Et on Tuesday, the 30-year-old actor revealed what it was like taking on the lead role of Kai Anderson in Ahs: Cult and how he felt about that shocking season finale.
Over the course of seven seasons, Peters has been cast in a number of villainous roles, like Tate Langdon in Murder House, Jimmy Darling in Freak Show and James March in Hotel. But none have come close to Kai, whom Peters says was probably his favorite character he's portrayed in FX's anthology series thus far.
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"Kai has been a really challenging role, the hardest role that I had to do, so in that respect...
Evan Peters is opening up about his "most difficult" season of American Horror Story yet.
During an exclusive interview with Et on Tuesday, the 30-year-old actor revealed what it was like taking on the lead role of Kai Anderson in Ahs: Cult and how he felt about that shocking season finale.
Over the course of seven seasons, Peters has been cast in a number of villainous roles, like Tate Langdon in Murder House, Jimmy Darling in Freak Show and James March in Hotel. But none have come close to Kai, whom Peters says was probably his favorite character he's portrayed in FX's anthology series thus far.
More: 'Ahs: Cult' Premiere: Evan Peters' Pro-Trump Character Revealed!
Photo: Frank Ockenfels/FX
"Kai has been a really challenging role, the hardest role that I had to do, so in that respect...
- 11/15/2017
- Entertainment Tonight
"You want to make it as some big journalist, you gotta go somewhere crazy." Crystal Sky Entertainment has debuted the first official trailer for an indie dramatic thriller titled The Pirates of Somalia, from writer/director Bryan Buckley (The Bronze). The film tells the "incredible true story" of rookie journalist Jay Bahadur, who in 2008 decided to go to Somalia to embed himself among the pirates there. He ultimately succeeds in providing the first close-up look into who these men are, how they live, and the forces that drive them. Evan Peters stars as journalist Jay Bahadur, and of course they got Somalian native Barkhad Abdi to star as his local fixer. The cast also includes Coral Peña, Philip Ettinger, Russell Posner, Melanie Griffith, and Al Pacino. This actually looks better than expected, so far so good, I am honestly intrigued. Here's the first official trailer (+ poster) for Bryan Buckley's The Pirates of Somalia,...
- 11/12/2017
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
The past week has seen some truly wacky trailers arrive. Michael Shannon becomes Bigfoot in “Pottersville,” Brie Larson travels to India for wacky adventures in “Basmati Blues,” and now Al Pacino becomes the inspiration for Evan Peters to put his life in danger in “The Pirates Of Somalia.”
One of those random Pacino movies we didn’t know existed until the arrival of a trailer, this one is based on the non-fiction book “The Pirates of Somalia: Inside Their Hidden World” by Jay Bahadur, which tells the story of a young journalist who is so inspired by his hero, he moves to Somalia to try and get the story of a lifetime.
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One of those random Pacino movies we didn’t know existed until the arrival of a trailer, this one is based on the non-fiction book “The Pirates of Somalia: Inside Their Hidden World” by Jay Bahadur, which tells the story of a young journalist who is so inspired by his hero, he moves to Somalia to try and get the story of a lifetime.
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- 11/10/2017
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Evan Peters is usually known for scaring viewers on “American Horror Story,” but in his latest movie he’s the one getting frightened — by heavily armed pirates in Somalia. Peters stars as real-life journalist Jay Bahadur in Echo Bridge’s “The Pirates of Somalia,” which follows the idealistic reporter as he meets his idol, Seymour Tolbin (Al Pacino), and is inspired to get as far as possible out of his comfort zone for the story that will make his career. He links up with a local fixer (Barkhad Abdi) and tries to get in tight with the pirates, but quickly realizes he’s.
- 11/10/2017
- by Matt Pressberg
- The Wrap
Evan Peters on ‘Dabka’ by Uinterview Dabka, directed by Bryan Buckley, is based on the true story of Jay Bahadur (Evan Peters), a rookie journalist who goes to Somalia to live among, and write about, the pirates getting international infamy in 2008. The film also stars Al Pacino as Seymour Tolbin, a fictitious Vietnam War corespondent, and Barkhad Abdi (Captain Philips) as […]
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- 5/26/2017
- by Jacob Kaye
- Uinterview
Opening with a voice-over explaining how a recent University of Toronto graduate went from surveying supermarket clerks about display placements to a becoming a freelance journalist running around Somalia, Bryan Buckley’s Dabka attempts to playfully tell the story of Jay Bahadur, author of The Pirates of Somalia: Inside Their Hidden World. Dabka takes an aggressive, masculine tone (one that’s almost, but not quite, frat boy-esque) that at times reminded me of Todd Phillips’ War Dogs, and it may be fitting. Here is the real-life story of a guy that finds himself miraculously with too much access and, at the same time, in over his head, and that charm (as well as naivety and lack of context), certainly helps in difficult situations.
Beginning somewhere in Ontario, Bahadur (played by Evan Peters) finds himself at the doctor after throwing his back out, leading to a chance encounter with veteran battlefield...
Beginning somewhere in Ontario, Bahadur (played by Evan Peters) finds himself at the doctor after throwing his back out, leading to a chance encounter with veteran battlefield...
- 4/30/2017
- by John Fink
- The Film Stage
The pleasingly self-aware and fast-paced “Dabka” begins with narration by journalist Jay Bahadur (Evan Peters) telling us that he hates movies where the main character narrates because that means that the screenwriters haven’t done their job to make the story work on a visual basis. While that may be true in some cases, “Dabka” itself is a movie where the brash but insecure voice of Bahadur grounds the story we are watching, and this voice also gives it some tension because we are never sure if his over-confidence might lead to disaster. Based on a true story, “Dabka” begins in.
- 4/28/2017
- by Dan Callahan
- The Wrap
Dabka opens with a voiceover from its protagonist, Jay Bahadur (Evan Peters), explaining that he hates voiceover in films because it’s lazy filmmaking. This self-aware smugness unfortunately sets the tone for the entire movie, which wavers between comedy and serious drama without much clear direction or purpose. And it’s a shame, because the true story of Dabka, about an aspiring journalist who embedded himself with Somali pirates for six months, is about as exciting as you can get.
When we first meet Jay, he’s an obnoxious and entitled man-child, living in his parents’ basement in Toronto (not his fault), working marketing for a napkin manufacturer (also not his fault), and waxing eloquent about what a brilliant and misunderstood writer he is (very much his fault). He is, in other words, the worst that has ever been said about the Millennial generation, a fact which renders him unsympathetic to most viewers and,...
When we first meet Jay, he’s an obnoxious and entitled man-child, living in his parents’ basement in Toronto (not his fault), working marketing for a napkin manufacturer (also not his fault), and waxing eloquent about what a brilliant and misunderstood writer he is (very much his fault). He is, in other words, the worst that has ever been said about the Millennial generation, a fact which renders him unsympathetic to most viewers and,...
- 4/28/2017
- by Lauren Humphries-Brooks
- We Got This Covered
by Murtada
You know who might be having a big 2017 in film? Barkhad Abdi. He has three interesting projects coming out, starting with Dabka which will play this month at the Tribeca Film Festival. Written and directed by Bryan Buckley (The Bronze) it’s the true story of a reporter’s risk-taking adventure that gave him an unprecedented first-person account of the pirates of Somalia. Evan Peters plays the reporter Jay Bahadur on whose best selling book, The Pirates of Somalia: Inside Their Hidden World, the film is based. Abdi plays a local fixer who helped Bahadur embed himself with the Somali pirates. So he hasn’t gone very far from the world of his Oscar nominated performance in Captain Phillips (2013).
with Evan Peters in Dabka
However Blade Runner 2049 could not be further away from his most famous role...
You know who might be having a big 2017 in film? Barkhad Abdi. He has three interesting projects coming out, starting with Dabka which will play this month at the Tribeca Film Festival. Written and directed by Bryan Buckley (The Bronze) it’s the true story of a reporter’s risk-taking adventure that gave him an unprecedented first-person account of the pirates of Somalia. Evan Peters plays the reporter Jay Bahadur on whose best selling book, The Pirates of Somalia: Inside Their Hidden World, the film is based. Abdi plays a local fixer who helped Bahadur embed himself with the Somali pirates. So he hasn’t gone very far from the world of his Oscar nominated performance in Captain Phillips (2013).
with Evan Peters in Dabka
However Blade Runner 2049 could not be further away from his most famous role...
- 4/14/2017
- by Murtada Elfadl
- FilmExperience
Exclusive: Written and directed by Bryan Buckley (Asad) comes Dabka, the true story of one reporter’s risk-taking adventure that ultimately brought the world an unprecedented first-person account of the pirates of Somalia. Ahead of its world premiere in the Narrative Spotlight section at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 27, Deadline has an exclusive clip from the film starring Evan Peters and Barkhad Abdi. Based on Jay Bahadur’s New York Times bestselling book The Pirate…...
- 4/11/2017
- Deadline
Danny McBride is no stranger to stepping outside of comedy with Up in the Air, All the Real Girls, and more, but he’s now set to dive into something quite unexpected. The Wrap reports he’s in talks to join Ridley Scott‘s Alien: Covenant with Michael Fassbender returning and Katherine Waterston taking on a new female lead role. While the Eastbound & Down star’s role isn’t specified, the October 2017-bound films follows the crew of the colony ship Covenant as they come across a dangerous planet occupied solely by Fassbender’s David.
Speaking of Fassbender, after he dropped out of The Mountains Between Us and then Charlie Hunnam doing the same, 20th Century Fox is looking at a new lead. The Wrap reports his Prometheus co-sta Idris Elba is now in talks to star in the project, adapted from Charles Martin’s novel following a doctor and...
Speaking of Fassbender, after he dropped out of The Mountains Between Us and then Charlie Hunnam doing the same, 20th Century Fox is looking at a new lead. The Wrap reports his Prometheus co-sta Idris Elba is now in talks to star in the project, adapted from Charles Martin’s novel following a doctor and...
- 2/11/2016
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
Al Pacino has signed on to join the cast of writer-director Bryan Buckley’s Where the White Man Runs Away. Captain Phillips star Barkhad Abdi and Melanie Griffith also are joining the drama, which marks Buckley’s follow-up to the 2015 Sundance hit The Bronze. Evan Peters (X-Men, Kick-Ass) already is onboard to star as real-life rookie journalist Jay Bahadur, who wrote the best-selling book The Pirates of Somalia. Pacino will play the role of Seymour Tobin, a fictitious Vietnam War correspondent whose passion for telling the uncensored truth far exceeds the battlefield. Abdi, who nabbed a
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- 2/11/2016
- by Tatiana Siegel
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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